Disputes and delays can be avoided with clear planning and strong communication throughout a project’s lifecycle, writes a ...

If you're a contractor, you need to know the business structure of your subcontractors to avoid having a problem with the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS requires that you send any independent ...

Subcontractors are crucial for efficient, specialized, and sustainable project completion but introduce significant supply chain risks related to qualifications, safety, and financial health. Almost ...

Homeowners are increasingly discovering that the check they wrote to a general contractor was only the beginning of the bill.

Subcontractors are not full-time, regular employees of the business, so it can sometimes be a challenge managing their roles and responsibilities. However, if you are able to effectively manage ...

Contractor and subcontractor negotiations often lead to contract terms and language being incorporated into the subcontract agreement, which then leads to surprising results when issues arise. These ...

Unless the prime contractor formally defaults the subcontractor, there is no coverage under the policy and no way to collect on a policy claim, say Schrift, AON’s managing director. If you had to ...

The mechanism for making sure suppliers and laborers get paid traps homeowners in the middle of disputes.

The new year brings us some clarification regarding due process and sufficiency of the evidence necessary to support a subcontractor substitution on a California public works project. The case of note ...

For federal government projects, when a payment dispute arises between a contractor and the agency, the contractor typically submits a request for equitable adjustment to the contract price. If the ...