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In Kazzi v KR Properties Global Pty Ltd t/as AK Properties Group [2024] NSWCA 143, the Court of Appeal has confirmed the liability of the sole director of a builder [...]

Byline: Kellen Stepler Oct. 16A prepared implosion of the boiler house at the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale is the safest way to take down the structure, the president [...]

New York: Bragar Eagel & Squire has issued the following news release: Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. reminds investors that class action lawsuits have been commenced on behalf of stockholders [...]

NEW YORK, Sep 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. reminds investors that class action lawsuits have been commenced on behalf of stockholders of Curaleaf [...]

One of the biggest concerns for employers reorganizing in response to operational requirements is the potential for constructive dismissal claims by employees impacted by the changes. A recent Ontario Superior [...]

Publication (communication of defamatory material to someone other than the plaintiff) is an essential element in a defamation claim. In the recent decision in Malak v Hanna, 2019 BCCA 106 [...]

Byline: Joanna Mather May 13, 2019 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Five employees at Bechtel's LNG plant at Curtis Island in Queensland have had to pay [...]

Byline: Aaron Gregg A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday found that Linda Rabbitt, a construction executive who has been outspoken about promoting women's careers in the construction industry [...]

Byline: Heather Cobun A federal lawsuit over a townhouse subdivision in Joppatowne being marketed as a retirement community for Muslims is heading to mediation after the parties agreed to postpone [...]

Byline: Paul Peirce June 14--A Penn Township country club alleges in a lawsuit that a township commissioner won a $306,788 contract for his construction company two years ago by omitting [...]

1. Thunder Bay (City) v. Canadian National Railway Company, 2018 ONCA 517 (Laskin, MacPherson and Fairburn JJ.A.), June 11, 2018 The bridge across the Kaministiquia River in Thunder Bay was [...]

The UAE Civil Transaction Code ('CTC') provides in article (890) that the main contractor may sub-contract the construction contract, in whole, or in part, unless otherwise agreed in the construction [...]

Byline: Aaron Gregg A federal jury in Alexandria on Friday found that Linda Rabbitt, a construction executive who has been outspoken about promoting women's careers in the construction industry as [...]

Jonathan Kessler brought a claim in arbitration against his former employer, Kent Building Services, after he was fired from his job as Kent's president, asserting that he had not been [...]

Byline: Alex Zank, alex.zank@dailyreporter.com The National Association of Home Builders and other industry groups have filed a lawsuit challenging OSHA's new rule requiring electronic record keeping of workplace injuries. In [...]

A precedent setting occupational health and safety (OHS) case was heard in the Alberta Court yesterday. For the first time in Alberta's history, a worker who was also a company [...]

BALTIMORE, MD. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland: U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Wendy Collins, age 46, [...]

The Metron Construction swing stage collapse disaster and related legal proceedings moved one step closer to closure when Justice MacDonnell sentenced Vadim Kazenelson to 3 ½ years in prison for [...]

Employers would not be faulted for assuming that derogatory remarks made in the workplace by one person to another about that person's place of birth, religion, sexual orientation is discrimination [...]

Beirut's central district which is owned by real estate giant Solidere. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) Beirut's central district which is owned by real estate giant Solidere. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) Solidere board [...]

A Kansas steel manufacturer has dismissed his lawsuit against the University of Oklahoma, construction project manager Flintco Inc and W&W Steel, paving the way for construction to continue without a [...]

Not spelling out in your agreements, even in informal agreements, where disputes can be resolved and what law will govern them can lead to some unhappy results. That is exactly [...]

Executive Summary: Across Georgia, employers are opening their mailboxes to discover that courts have returned checks that employers previously submitted to satisfy garnishment actions. This is the result of decisions [...]

COMPLIANCE WITH EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS. Employees should have policies that are consistent with the Employment legislation in the correct jurisdiction. In New South Wales, the Fair Work Act applies. Inconsistent policies [...]

As the most extreme example of an implied waiver, the 'at issue' doctrine can waive privilege protection if a litigant affirmatively raises an issue that implicates privileged communications. Some courts [...]

In brief - 'Officer' defined as having organisational, not operational role The Industrial Court of ACT has been the first court to consider the scope of the definition of 'officer' [...]

[Note: This post can be viewed as a companion piece to an earlier Bench Press commentary about the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Moore v Getahun on expert reports] [...]

Byline: Ty Tagami A courtroom stalemate that has dragged on for six years, costing the DeKalb County School District $18 million and incalculable damage to public confidence, has finally given [...]

Byline: Ty Tagami DeKalb County taxpayers stand to win tens of millions of dollars less than originally hoped in their school system's long-running lawsuit against an international construction company. At [...]

Byline: Luther Turmelle May 15--As part of an ongoing legal battle with UIL Holdings, a New Rochelle, N.Y.-based construction contractor has filed a lawsuit against the energy holding company, charging [...]

Byline: Ty Tagami Two DeKalb County residents are alleging in court that their local school district has incurred illegal debt for lawyer fees. The lawsuit, filed Friday against the DeKalb [...]

DERRYLIN, Northern Ireland -- It is only a short distance, but a vast world apart. The stately brick-and-glass headquarters that was once Sean Quinn's realm is only a six-minute drive [...]

Byline: JANET McFARLAND LEGAL OSHAWA, ONT. -- Vic De Zen and other executives of Royal Group Technologies Ltd. 'defrauded their own company' and hid the evidence from auditors and the [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chief executive who helped build KB Home into one of the country's largest homebuilders was convicted Wednesday of four felony counts in a stock case [...]

The sentencing of two executives of Testwell Laboratories, once the leading concrete testing company in New York, was reduced to the sentencing of one on Wednesday, after one of the [...]

Byline: Janet McFarland BUSINESS TICKER / NORTH AMERICA / MANUFACTURING A trial date has been set in the fraud case involving former executives of Royal Group Technologies Inc., including former [...]

The first batch of guilty verdicts came a week ago, but those counts were not the most serious. On Tuesday, Testwell Laboratories, once the leading concrete testing company in New [...]

Two officials of a construction company that did work for the city were charged on Wednesday with cheating workers out of more than half a million dollars and inflating payroll […]

The president of a swimming pool company was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Monday in connection with an accident last year in which a 6-year-old boy drowned in Greenwich, Conn., […]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman An employer could be held liable for injuries sustained by a passenger in a company truck driven by an off-duty employee, the Rhode Island Supreme Court [...]

Byline: Melissa P. Stewart, Esq. Michigan Court of Appeals When John Chase injured his foot while working on the Bass Pro Outdoor World site during the construction of Great Lakes [...]