Word of the Day: “Contractor”

What’s in a word? When it comes to insurance policies, a word, can potentially mean millions of dollars. In California Specialty Insulation, Inc. v. Allied World…

Viva La France! 2024 Summer Olympics Construction Features Sustainable Design, Including, Simply Not Building at All

If you’re like me and many others you’ve probably been watching the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. We were in Paris last year and we…

Employees in Construction Industry Entitled to Compensation for Time Spent Complying with Employer-Mandated Security Protocols

Wage and hour laws dictating how employers must compensate their employees for time worked can, given the innumerable ways that employees perform their jobs, raise a…

Staffing Company Not Entitled to Make a Claim Against a Payment Bond and Attorneys’ Fees on State Public Works Payment Bonds

It’s not quite Baskin Robbin’s “31 Flavors” but the panoply of statutory construction payment remedies available to contractors, subcontractor and material suppliers in California, from mechanics…

DIR Public Works Registration System Down, Public Works Contractors Not to be Penalized

In a bit of a major freak-out this past Friday, June 28, 2024, public works contractors with Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) registrations expiring on June…

Nomos LLP Partner Garret Murai Recognized by Super Lawyers

Nomos LLP Partner Garret Murai has been recognized as a 2024 Northern California Super Lawyers honoree in the area of Construction Litigation. This is the eleventh…

We’ve Updated Our Statutory Construction Payment Forms

We got the productivity bug this Memorial Day weekend and updated and added a few new statutory construction payment forms to our library including forms the…

The Small Stuff: Small Claims Court and Limited Civil Court Jurisdictional Limits

Sometimes the small stuff matters. And when it comes to legal disputes this can pose a problem for clients as well as their attorneys because litigation…

Construction Contractor “Mean Tweets” Edition

Back in the day, if someone had a problem with you the rules of school yard jungle dictated that they had better tell it to your…

What Construction Contractors Should Know About the California Government Claims Act

If you work on state or local public works projects in California you should have at least a basic understanding of the Government Claims Act formerly…

What You Need to Know About CARB’s In-Use Off-Road Diesel Regulations

In November 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved amendments to . . . wait for it . . . its “In-Use Off-Road Diesel-Fueled Fleet”…

Courts Will Not Second-Guess Public Entities When it Comes to Design Immunity

It was a bizarre confluence of events. Jorgen Stufkosky was driving on SR-154 in Santa Ynez, California. Martha Aguayo was driving on the same highway ahead…