You pay Massachusetts homeowner’s insurance premiums and have for years – now you have a claim for property damage. Maybe your home and some of… Read More »Homeowners Insurance Claims in Massachusetts – How it works
You have to want to integrate Contractors’ walking off a Denver VA Hospital project, was justified by a decision of the Civilian Board of Contract… Read More »Integrated Contracts No Good If Owners Can Ignore Reality
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A Massachusetts doctor, who didn’t sign an arbitration agreement between a nursing home and its patient, couldn’t be forced to take part in the arbitration,… Read More »Broad Seep of Arbitration Clause Can’t Pull in Non-Signers
In a characteristically astringent opinion Massachusetts Appeals Court Judge Brown called out excessive legal expenses as wasteful. Here, again we witness another puzzling situation in… Read More »Appeals Court Judge Lights into Disproportionate Legal Costs
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