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Archived Design Professional Newsletters

2024

March 2024 - A Risk Management Conversation with A.I.

2023

June 2023 - What to Ask Your Broker When Buying or Renewing a Professional Liability Policy

February 2023 - How to Protect Employees Who Are Extra Vulnerable to Malware

2021

November 2021 - Why Quality Insurance Carriers and Claims Expertise Matter More Than You May Think

Summer 2021 - Crisis Response: An A/E Action Plan

2020

Summer 2020 - Strategic Solutions for Construction Site Visits - An A/E Guide

Spring 2020 - Know Your Limitations - A Design Professional Guide to Limited Liability

2019

May 2019 - Avoiding the Nonpayment Quagmire

Spring 2019 - Why Private, For-profit Companies Should Purchase Directors, Officers & Company Liability Insurance

Winter 2019 - Professional Liability Policy in Wisconsin Provides no Coverage to Engineer against Claims by its Own Client

2018

October 2018 - Your Quality Program - Asset or Liability?

September 2018 - The Never-Ending Challenge of Jobsite Safety

June 2018 - Contract language made code compliance a separate duty from the standard of care duty

April/May 2018 - Contractual Defense Protection® - A new solution for the old "Duty to Defend" problem.

February 2018 - Subcontract delay cost claim against general contractor is covered by professional liability policy

2017

December 2017 - Insurance coverage on construction projects

Fall 2017 - "Complying with all laws" during design and construction

August/September 2017 - Circumstance and Claim Reporting Non-Compliance Fatal to Triggering Professional Liability Coverage

June/July 2017 - Learning from the Mistakes of Others: Follow the Claims Procedure in Public Contracts

April 2017 - Porous Piety: Unwritten "Contracts" Cost Far More Than the Paper They Aren’t Written On

January 2017 - Benefit from Selecting the Right Professional Liability Broker

2016

October/November 2016 - If You Build It, They Will Sue: Condominium Projects – Part II

August 2016 - If You Build It, They Will Sue: Condominium Projects – Part I

April 2016 - Endorsements, Certificates of Insurance, and Other Tools for Evidencing Coverage

February 2016 - Template of Reasonable Contract Clauses for Design Professionals

2015

November 2015 - Broker-Verification Questionnaires: A Disturbing Trend Explained

September 2015 - How Effective is Your Risk Management Program?

March/April 2015 - Prevailing Party Perils: Attorney’s Fees’ Clauses in Professional Service Contracts

January/February 2015 - Managing Employee Benefits: A Three-Legged Stool of Protection

2014

November/December 2014 - The Do’s and Don’ts of Document Retention - More Paper or Paper-Less?

September/October 2014 - California Supreme Court Rules in the Beacon v. Skidmore Owings Case

July/August 2014 - Construction Phase Services: Considerations for a Successful Outcome

May/June 2014 - The Design Professional in the Age of BIM

March/April 2014 - Waiver of Subrogation: A Valid Defense for Architects and Engineers?

January/February 2014 - Design Professionals and the Dodd-Frank Act

2013

December 2013 - Review of the Owner/Design Professional Agreement from The Design Professional’s Perspective

November 2013 - The Proposal Preparation Myth, What’s Missing?

October 2013 - The Additional Insured Conundrum

September 2013 - An Unfair Duty to Defend

August 2013 - Insurance 102: Property Coverages

June 2013 - International Practice: International Liability Exposures

May 2013 - Insurance 101: The Things You Always Wanted to Know About Liability Coverage But Were Afraid to Ask

April 2013 - Making the Grade: Testing Design Professional Indemnity Obligations

March 2013 - Project Insurance: Benefits and Cautions (Part 2)

MSPS February 2013 - Protecting Your Practice: Contracts for Surveyors

February 2013 - Project Insurance: Benefits and Cautions (Part 1)

January 2013 - The Construction Contract: 3 Essential Rules

2012

December 2012 - Shootout At The Copyright Corral

November 2012 - Architects Step Into Contractors Liability, Size XXL

October 2012 - Veni, Vidi, Vici, Lis Pendens: I came, I saw, I got sued - Part 2 of 2

September 2012 - Veni, Vidi, Vici, Lis Pendens: I came, I saw, I got sued - Part 1 of 2

August 2012 - Building Commissioning: Process Types & Definitions

July 2012 - Getting Paid For Design Services

June 2012 - Case Study

May 2012 - Integrated Project Delivery: Changing the Insurance Landscape

April 2012 - Responding to an RFP: Risk Management Tools to Guide the Bidding Process

March 2012 - The Impact of Sub Consultants in the Design Build Process: The Perspective of the Fire Protection Engineer

February 2012 - Just a Rabbit? Small Projects Can Bite

January 2012 - Your Company's Auto Liability - What's Covered? What's Not?

2011

December 2011 - Document Retention and Disposition

November 2011 - Private Arbitration

October 2011 - Internal Risk Management, Part 2 of 2

September 2011 - Internal Risk Management, Part 1 of 2

August 2011 - The Latest on Gifford v. U.S.G.B.C

July 2011 - Construction Administration and Site Observation


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