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The timing of suits against design professionals is often debated. A recent Ohio case has determined that a negligence claim against an engineer for design errors and omissions had arisen when the design was completed, as opposed to the time when the parking lot failed post-construction. The court ruled that the negligence claim had expired […]

State licensing boards are not entitled to automatic immunity from antitrust laws, the nation’s highest court ruled in late February. Instead, state licensing boards can be held liable under antitrust laws to the same extent as private corporations for acts that unfairly restrict trade. New rule: state licensing boards enjoy automatic immunity from suit only […]

Although Governor Kasich’s proposed budget from February has some tax breaks in it for Ohio contractors, the tax increases in the budget eat up nearly all of those breaks. The proposal calls for an income tax decrease by an average of 23 percent for all taxpayers and exempts small business owners with gross receipts of […]

Recent proposed changes to California’s Proposition 65, “The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986,” have businesses and trade associations in a state of agitation—if not alarm—as some of the nation’s most stringent toxic substances regulations could become even stricter. Thirty years after the initiative was first adopted, the administrative body charged with […]

Contractors trapped on a troubled construction project should take note of a recent federal court decision, Kiewit -Turner v. Department of Veterans Affairs, CBCA No. 3450 (Dec. 9, 2014). In the decision, authored by the United States Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (a special court which hears claims brought against agencies of the federal government), […]