5 Steps to Consider Now to Comply with Massachusetts’ Prompt Pay Act
By Tom Dunn, Pierce Atwood LLPImagine this: your assist project manager returns from a long holiday weekend to find a subcontractor’s payment application sitting unreviewed in an inbox buried until a dozen other submittals and to-dos. Sixty days have passed since it was submitted. No one approved it. No one rejected it. Under the Massachusetts Prompt Pay Act, that application is now deemed approved by operation of law — and if you do not pay it before raising any defenses, you may lose those defenses
When Your Project is Put on Trial: What to Expect for the Contractor
By: R. Thomas Dunn, Esq. and Matthew R. O’Connor, Esq. As contractors, you may never imagine you could end up someday testifying under oath about the tenth email you sent on a random Tuesday years ago talking about an RFI, soil compaction, or who said what in a meeting with the project owner. Yet, that’s the reality of what happens when a dispute exits the worksite and enters a courtroom. Recently, the authors tried a multi-day arbitration involving millions in claims. There were twenty witnesses ranging
