It seems like we’ve been seeing a lot of Privette doctrine cases recently. Here’s another, Brown v. Beach House Design & Development, 85 Cal.App.5th 516 (2002),…
We’ve talked a fair bit about the Privette doctrine which provides for a rebuttable presumption that a hirer is not liable for workplace injuries sustained by…
Summary Judgment in Favor of General Contractor Under Privette Doctrine Overturned: Lessons Learned
Court of Appeal: Privette Doctrine Does Not Apply to Landlord-Tenant Relationships
Playing Professor for a Day
Show Me the Money: The Good Faith Dispute Exception to Prompt Payment Penalties
I had the unique opportunity this past week to lecture at USC at the invitation of Professor Alan Croll. Professor Croll is an attorney and former…
California has a number of prompt payment penalty statutes on the books. Among them is Civil Code section 8800 which requires project owners on private works…
We’ve written before about the Privette doctrine, which establishes a presumption that a hirer of an independent contractor delegates to the contractor all responsibility for workplace…
There’s a lot to worry about going into 2023 according to Dodge Data & Analytics in its 2023 Construction Industry Outlook: Inflation More oil production cuts…
For contractors involved in California public works projects the scenario is not uncommon: The general contractor awarded the public works project is required to obtain a…
 As we approach 2023 we want to wish you and yours a happy holiday season. A total of 1,726 bills were introduced during the second…
California is one of the most employee-friendly states in the country. From strict hiring laws (don’t think about asking about an applicant’s criminal, credit or even…
A rather short case for a short week. In Gerlach v. K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Beaumont, LLC, 82 Cal.App.5th 303 (2022), the 4th District Court…
Construction defect cases leading to physical injury are rarely trivial, at least in the eyes of the injured party, but alas sometimes they are as the…
While construction projects can get messy, they don’t get much messier than the next case, which, while involving a fairly limited legal issue, has such jaw…
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