Design liability and right-of-way risk allocation are topics addressed in a legal research digest recently published by the Transportation Research Board’s National Cooperative Highway Research ...

In today’s construction industry, it is no secret that there is always increasing pressure to speed up schedules and to keep costs down. One key factor that can help achieve these goals is to increase ...

John G. Powers and Nina I. Brown of Hancock Estabrook write: In New York, the question of whether the original designer bears any continuing liability in tort for injuries occurring after the ...

Design delegation has become increasingly prevalent in modern construction, encompassing everything from curtain wall systems to precast panels and fire protection layouts. Contractors and specialty ...

One of the fastest-growing branches of U.S. litigation is product-design liability suits against manufacturers, claiming that faultily designed products caused serious injuries or deaths. “This ...

Liabilities and warranties, especially in construction contracts are very fluid, and they ebbs and flow depending on the nature of the project and more importantly, the type of contract. One such ...

While architects and engineers take responsibility for the safety of the buildings they design, they usually are not responsible for protecting the property or the people on-site during construction.

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Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Section 22(b)(1) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA) provides that [n]o vaccine manufacturer shall be ...

At Tuesday’s oral argument in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth (No. 09-152), the Court – with Justice Kagan recused – focused predominantly on the consequences of its decision for vaccine manufacturers and victims ...