As the rapidly spreading coronavirus expands across the nation, businesses are faced with many unknowns, including how can they keep their doors open and for how long? And if they do strive to hold on amidst this growing economic crisis,
The Lien Zone
The Lien Zone, published by The Barthet Firm, focuses on legal issues related to the construction industry in Miami and South Florida. The blog covers topics such as construction contract disputes, lien claims, bond claims, payment issues including pay-when-paid and pay-if-paid clauses, warranty claims, bid disputes, job delay damages, payment holdbacks, and change orders. It also addresses workers' compensation in construction, homeowner insurance claims related to construction damage, and legal requirements like the Construction Recovery Fund Notice for residential projects. The content aims to inform construction professionals and homeowners about practical legal solutions and industry-specific regulations.
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A Data-Driven Look at Bidding Activity During COVID-19
By Alex Barthet
What if there was a way to see the construction bidding activity before and after the Coronavirus hit the United States? There is, because the good folks at PlanHub have analyzed their terabytes of bidding data to tell us what
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Substantial Completion Defined
Every contractor has heard the term and many have had to figure out exactly what it means. Substantial completion is a legal term found in construction contracts to define that stage of a contractor’s work which is sufficiently complete in…
Keeping Construction Essential. Do This Today to Keep Your Jobsites Open
By Alex Barthet
With jurisdictions stepping up enforcement of CDC guidelines on construction projects, adding wash stations, keeping 6 feet of social distance, and limiting groups to 10 or less has become critical. Today we talk to Peter Dyga, President of the Associated
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Local Coronavirus Relief
INVENTING:To help stave off the COVID-19 pandemic and adhering to the CDC’s guidelines to use technology and equipment to keep workers separated, one of Miami’s construction technology providers, SmartBarrel, has implemented a new firmware version which transforms the SmartBarrel…
How the DOL Guidelines Modify the Families First Coronavirus Response Act?
By Alex Barthet
Confusion is still swirling around the New Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), so the DOL issued new guidelines. Today, I again talk to Jorge Rivero of HR Management. Jorge revisits the key parts of the FFCRA and explains the
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Self Isolation: The Government’s Answer to COVID-19
In the midst of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic, new terminology has been thrown at us on a daily basis: Stay-at-home. Safer-at-home. Shelter-in-place. Lockdown. Martial Law.
These terms, which have become commonplace, refer to government measures intended to compel residents…
How is the Construction Surety Bonding Market Reacting to COVID 19
By Alex Barthet
With construction still progressing in most jurisdictions, the construction surety bonding market is starting to tighten due to the Coronavirus. Today we speak with Jonathan Bursevich of Alter Surety about what he is seeing and hearing from underwriters on their
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Killer Soap-Virus Relief
For months now, we have been advised to wash our hands to help prevent the spread of COViD-19. But we’ve always heard that we should wash our hands, so this advice doesn’t sound like much. If all the money in…
Insurance Coverage and COVID-19 – UPDATE 3/27/2020
By Larry Cook
This is an update to “COVID-19 CLAIMS: DOES BUSINESS INTERRUPTION INSURANCE HELP?” Contractors, like most other businesses in America, have suffered losses from the Coronavirus. It is likely that they will continue to do so in the coming months.…