Prime Contractor, Summary Judgment

The Subcontractor Performed. The Prime Contractor Paid. But a Hacker Ended Up with the Money. Who Is Responsible?

Venable LLP on 6/6/2024

When hackers gain access to a subcontractor’s information systems and divert the prime contractor’s payment to themselves instead of to the subcontractor, does the prime contractor still have to pay the subcontractor?...more

Accord and Satisfaction: To Release, or Not Release? That is the Question.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/1/2022

Generally, an “accord and satisfaction” is an agreement between two or more contracting parties to accept an alternate agreement and performance in lieu of a preexisting contractual duty between the parties. The new agreement...more

Accord and Satisfaction: To Release, or Not Release? That is the Question.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 8/5/2022

Generally, an “accord and satisfaction” is an agreement between two or more contracting parties to accept an alternate agreement and performance in lieu of a preexisting contractual duty between the parties. The new...more

Arizona Trial Court Holds Owner May Recover First-Party Consequential Damages From Subcontractor Despite Prime Contract Waiver

Snell & Wilmer on 7/19/2022

In a recent Arizona case, the trial court held that an owner could sue a subcontractor directly for recovery of the owner’s consequential delay damages based on the subcontract’s express indemnity clause, notwithstanding that...more

Federal Court in Pennsylvania Holds Pay-If-Paid Clause Unenforceable Where Prime Contractor’s Inadvertent Delays Contribute to the...

Troutman Pepper on 9/20/2018

Connelly Constr. Corp. v. Travelers Cas. & Surety Co. of Am., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 123009 (E.D. Pa. July 24, 2018). The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of General Services undertook a project for the construction...more

Prime Contractor › Summary Judgment

The Subcontractor Performed. The Prime Contractor Paid. But a Hacker Ended Up with the Money. Who Is Responsible?

Accord and Satisfaction: To Release, or Not Release? That is the Question.

Accord and Satisfaction: To Release, or Not Release? That is the Question.

Arizona Trial Court Holds Owner May Recover First-Party Consequential Damages From Subcontractor Despite Prime Contract Waiver

Federal Court in Pennsylvania Holds Pay-If-Paid Clause Unenforceable Where Prime Contractor’s Inadvertent Delays Contribute to the...

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