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(November 5, 2021) - Stratton Horres, Karen Bashor and Taylor Buono of Wilson Elser LLP present lessons learned from recent tragedies caused by the failure to maintain and update infrastructure. Our nation is in crisis. We refer to an infrastructure crisis with bridges, tunnels, railroads, overpasses, sewers, water supply, electrical grids and some buildings, although safe and code compliant when originally constructed, are no longer either. These hard infrastructure facilities, structures and systems are essential [...]

On September 16, 2021, Governor Newsom signed a trio of housing bills aimed at streamlining the development of housing throughout the state. SB 8 (Skinner) is an extension of the Housing Crisis Act of 2019. SB 9 (Atkins) is a comprehensive reworking of density on existing residential parcels. SB 10 (Skinner) provides local jurisdictions the option to streamline approvals for certain multi-family projects. This is part one in a series of Legal Alerts analyzing the [...]

Under normal circumstances, third-party, professional managers hired by owners to manage their construction projects feel that they are fairly well insulated from claims by the general contractor. The contractor doesn't have a contract with the manager to base a claim on. And, as a general rule, claims for a contractor's economic losses — the exact kinds of losses general contractors typically claim — cannot be made against such professional managers based on negligence. Thus, under [...]