Legal and Regulatory
Negligence Claim Proves Designers Can Be Held Directly Liable to Subcontractors
Is it reasonable for a subcontractor bidding on a design-build project to assume that the designer has followed the owner’s requirements in preparing the preliminary design documents? The answer is yes, according to a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals...
By Gina M. Vitiello
July 27, 2017
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