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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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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

  • CA – Pending CA Legislation may Impact Water Rights
  • CA – State Solar Energy Financial Incentives

Ethics

  • Ethics and the Law
  • Creating a Culture of Professional Liability Issues Awareness – Code of Ethics

Fiduciary Duty

  • Breach of Fiduciary Duty and The Design Professional

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

  • Mediation – A Viable Option
  • Changing Combatants

Mold Exposures

  • Mold Exposure

Offshore Design Services

  • What Naval Architects Should Consider When Faced With Steep Insurance Requirements
  • Offshore Design Services

Privity Defense

  • The Duty of Design Professionals and the Privity Defense
  • What about the Architects?

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

    • Pardon Me Your SWPPP is Showing

    Sustainable Design

    • Green Products = Increased Risk for Architects?
    • Managing Evolving and Innovative Design Delivery
    • Sustainable Innovation: Planning, Practice & Protection

    Unruh Act

    • CALIFORNIA – The Impact of Munson v. Del Taco on California Design Professionals

    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

    Claims

    • When to Report a Claim on a “Claims Made” Policy
    • Claims: 5 Things to Do & 5 Things NOT to Do
    • Firms with Claims: The Importance of Shopping at Renewal
    • 2012 – Collections-Claims Connections: Getting Paid without Getting Sued
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