Risk Management Library
Webinar Library
- Costs, Codes, Consumers & Ethics
- The Role of a Design Professional during Construction
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Document Retention – More Paper or Paper-Less?
- The Devils in the Details: Minimizing the Effects of a Professional Liability Claim
- The Outer Zone: The “Outside” Relationships
- In The Team Zone: The “Design” Team Relationship
- In the Zone: The Prime Relationship
- Ethics and the Law
- Claim Case: The Floating Pipe Trick
- Contractual Transfer of Risk for Professionals: Mastering Indemnity, Insurance and The Standard of Care
- Design Collaboration: Joint Ventures & Beyond
- Legal Issues for Design Professionals: Understanding the Law of Architectural Copyright
- Cyber Liability: What are the Risks for Design Professionals?
- Claims: 5 Things to Do & 5 Things NOT to Do
- Navigating the Waters of Commercial Business Insurance
- Understanding Your Professional Liability Policy
- The Scope of Work: A Guide, A Shield, and Tool
- Ethics for Design Professionals
- Course of Actions Available to Design Professionals for Litigation: Voluntary Discontinuance, Motion to Dismiss, Mediation
- The Galloping Gabions: A Case of Improper Construction Procedures That Resulted in Failure of a Gabion System
- Duty to Warn – A Study of Two Claim Cases Against Design Professionals
- The Impact of Contract Language on Claims: Are You Prepared for Defeat or Success?
- Florida’s Public Records Act & Design Professional
- Reducing Risks as Design Professionals – Contract through Project Closeout and Beyond
- Spring Cleaning Your Documents
- Effective Project Management Practices as a Key Risk Management Strategy
- Practical Consequences for Ethical Conduct
- Delegated Design: What Risks to Consider when Involved in Performance Specifications or Design-Build Projects
- Foresight 20/20: Conquering Crisis before it Conquers You
- Project Restarts: Opportunities, Risks and Strategies for Restarting a Suspended Project
- Yours, Mine, Ours…Who’s Responsible for the Design?
- Understanding Claim Exposures and Contractual Risk Transfer
- Claim Disputes: The Case of the Cracked Apron
- The Impact of Onerous Provisions
- To Infinity and Beyond! Avoiding and Managing Cyber Liability in the 21st Century
- Managing Professional Fees
- Applying the Art of War to the Design Professional: Understanding Litigation and Your Enemy Will Sharpen Your Practice
- Lessons Learned: Practical Advice on how to Avoid Professional Insurance Claims and Manage PLI Exposures
- Limitations of Liability and Economic Loss Doctrine
- The Bright Gray Line
Certificate of Merit
Contracts
- Subconsultants Need Their Own Professional Liability Insurance Policies
- Prevailing Party Perils: Attorney’s Fees Clauses
- Zen and The Art of Contractual Indemnity
- Reduce Your Firm’s Risk of Loss by Understanding “Additional Insured” Requirements
- 16 Contract Provisions You Need to Know
- 7 Key Provisions to Prime Design Agreements
- Do You Really Have a Contract?
- Getting Paid – Are Promissory Notes Another Empty Promise?
- Importance of Contracts for Design Professionals
- Key Contractural Concerns
- Prevailing Party Clause – Don’t Get Left with the Bill
- Service Agreement
- Skating on Thin Ice: Surviving and Succeeding on Projects with Precarious Contract Terms
- Tips on Contracts
Documentation
- Legal Issues for Design Professionals: Understanding the Law of Architectural Copyright
- 2012 -The Project File – Retain or Not to Retain – And For How Long?
- CA – The Impact of ESI Assembly Bill No. 5
- Email as a Project Communication Tool: Loose Fingers Sink Ships
Economic Loss Doctrine/ Limitation of Liability
- Limitations of Liability and Economic Loss Doctrine
- Economic Loss Doctrine Bibliography by State
- Limitation of Liability
Environmental Law
Ethics
Fiduciary Duty
Forensic Consulting
- 2012 – Has Evidence Been Spoliated? If So, A Motion To Dismiss May Be In Order
- Appearing as a Witness in Court or Deposition
- How to be a Great Expert Witness
Indemnification
- Contractual Transfer of Risk for Professionals: Mastering Indemnity, Insurance and The Standard of Care
- Construction Defect Litigation and Indemnity Contracts
- Beware Hidden Indemnity Dangers!
- CA – Enacts Subcontract Obligation to Defend
- CA – Indemnity & Defense – World After UDCvsCH2
- Duty to Defend A Recent Extension of Crawford
- Express Indemnity Clause – Crawford Redux: Where are the Damages?
- General Contractor Indemnity
- How it is Possible for a Design Professional to Win at Trial but still Wind Up Losing
- Indemnify and Defend: “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing!”
- Negotiating the Professional Services Contract Clauses
Managing Risk Exposure
- Cyber Risk for A&E Firms
- Contractual Transfer of Risk for Professionals: Mastering Indemnity, Insurance and The Standard of Care
- Design Collaboration: Joint Ventures & Beyond
- Cyber Liability: What are the Risks for Design Professionals?
- Is your Insurance Agent your Trusted Advisor?
- Contractors Equipment: Tips for Insuring Land Surveying Tools, Equipment and Instruments
- Zen and The Art of Contractual Indemnity
- Article – Liability of ‘Delegated Design’ – Understanding and Avoiding Risks to Design Professionals
- 2012 – A/E Professionals Should Meticulously Choose Sub-consultants
- Building Toward the Paperless Project: Risks, Rewards, and Safeguards
- CALIFORNIA – A “Beacon” of Hope for Purchasers of Real Property, at the Expense of Design Professionals
- Can You Condo?
- Design Professionals Leaving Projects Before Completing Services Need to be Potected
- E-Mail as a Project Communication Tool
- Latent Defects of Mergers & Aquisitions
- Managing Professional Fees
- Managing the Construction Manager
- Patent and Latent Defects
- Protecting Your Intellectual Property
- Remedying Shop Drawing Problems
- Seven Steps to Effective Risk Management for Design Professionals
- Where is the Value in Value Engineering?
Mediation
Mold Exposures
Offshore Design Services
- What Naval Architects Should Consider When Faced With Steep Insurance Requirements
- Offshore Design Services
Privity Defense
Project Management
- Design Collaboration: Joint Ventures & Beyond
- Effective Project Management Practices as a Key Risk Management Strategy
- Musical Chairs: Managing & Mastering Multiple Models of Project Delivery
- NV – Construction Defect Law
Property Casualty
- Navigating the Waters of Commercial Business Insurance
- Property Casualty Insurance Coverages through Hall & Company
Retention
Risk Management Newsletters
- A&E Business, Spring 2016 edition
- Beazley A&E Reporter – Fall 2012
- Pacific Northwest Design Professional Legal Update – Summer 2012
- CA – New Laws on Design Professional’s Liens
- Beazley AE Reporter – May 2012
- Legal Update – FAQ’s About Wood Placements in Rivers
- DPL News – Jan 2012
- DPL News – Sept 2011
- Pacific Northwest Design Professional Legal Update – Summer 2011
- DPL News – July 2011
- DPL News – May 2011
Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans
Sustainable Design
- Green Products = Increased Risk for Architects?
- Managing Evolving and Innovative Design Delivery
- Sustainable Innovation: Planning, Practice & Protection
Unruh Act
Insurance
- When to Report a Claim on a “Claims Made” Policy
- Subconsultants Need Their Own Professional Liability Insurance Policies
- Cyber Risk for A&E Firms
- Condominium Risk Management
- Navigating the Waters of Commercial Business Insurance
- The Professional Liability Renewal Process: Why We Need you Application So Early
- An Understanding of What Constitutes “Betterment”
- Is your Insurance Agent your Trusted Advisor?
- Managing Risk: Why A/E firms need Hired and Non-Owned Auto Coverage
- What Naval Architects Should Consider When Faced With Steep Insurance Requirements
- Firms with Claims: The Importance of Shopping at Renewal
- Design Professional Insurance Advisory
- Underwriting Intellectural Property Risks for Architects & Engineers
- CASE STUDY – Getting a Second Opinion on Professional Liability Insurance
- Understanding Professional Liability Insurance
- Certificates of Insurance and Notice of Cancellation
- Hall & Company – About Us