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Seventh Circuit holds contractor bodily injury exclusion inapplicable

  • Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 11 2013

In its recent decision in Atlantic Casualty Ins. Co. v. Paszko Masonry, Inc., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 11561 (7th Cir. June 7, 2013), the United States

New Tax Court decision highlights need for construction contractors to consider expanded IRS voluntary worker classification settlement program

  • Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 14 2013

For years, the question of whether construction workers should be treated as employees or independent contractors has been an important issue that

It’s getting harder to say goodbye

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 18 2013

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) allows employers, including those in the construction industry, to join together to bargain with a

Engler v. Gulf Interstate Eng’g, Inc.: employer liability for contractor employees working away from home

  • Snell & Wilmer
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2012

In today’s increasingly mobile construction industry, contractors are frequently involved in projects away from their home office

Court holds minority owner of construction business not employer under FLSA

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 28 2012

FLSA litigation against medium-sized businesses continues, and a common tactic in such cases is to assert that one or more owners or managers of the business is the plaintiff's "employer" under the statute, and thus individually liable for the allegedly unpaid minimum wage andor overtime

OSHA's "willful violation" finding not dispositive of whether employer committed an intentional wrong

  • Sedgwick LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 31 2012

In the context of a plaintiff's action against his employer for serious workplace injuries, the New Jersey Supreme Court in Van Dunk v. Reckson

Independent contractor status and negligent hiring

  • Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer
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  • USA
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  • October 1 2012

Earl Doucet hired Gammon Enterprises, LLC to perform roofing repairs on a building in Metairie, Louisiana

Incorporation of collective bargaining agreement on routine form insufficient to create arbitration agreement

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • USA
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  • September 17 2012

This is unheard of!

Department of Labor settles debarment proceeding against contractor for violations of wage and benefit laws while employee class action remains pending in Southern District of New York

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 14 2012

Contractors and Subcontractors Beware!

The resurrection of the “completed and accepted work doctrine”

  • Poyner Spruill LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 10 2012

In the recent Court of Appeals decision, Lamb vs. Duggins Welding, (No. COA12-129, August 7, 2012) the Court relied on a 1946 case (Price vs. Johnston Cotton Co. of Wendell, Inc. 266 N.C. 758) to support the application of the “Completed and Accepted Work Doctrine” and bar an action for personal injuries by a construction worker