The Incentives Performance Center estimates that American businesses spend more than $10 billion a year on incentive travel and motivational meetings. Trips to Hawaii or a round of golf at Pebble Beach can serve as rewards for successful sales executives ...
Read More »Western District finds contract to rebuild house was not valid
A breach of contract claim was transformed into a quantum meruit mission after the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, said a home builder and his clients never consummated a contract. The appellate division reversed a trial court’s decision that ...
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Industry weighs in on immigration reforms
Two national construction organizations are throwing their weight behind a more lenient immigration reform bill up before the U.S. Senate. Both the Associated General Contractors of America and the American Subcontractors Association support immigration reform that strengthens U.S. borders, establishes ...
Read More »Construction lenders optimistic about remainder of 2006
Lenders are predicting a good financing environment for their construction and development borrowers for the remainder of the year – just a little more complicated than during the last two years of easy money and rapid sales, especially in the ...
Read More »COA remands divorce case to trial court for recalculation of assets
Missing marital property values prompted the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, to send back a divorce case for refiguring. Sara Sue and Wayne Howard Hoecker were married in June 1969 and they asked Platte County Circuit Court Judge Daniel ...
Read More »Class action suits proceed against nonprofit hospitals
A group of class-action lawsuits filed around the country could have lawyers scratching their heads – and nonprofit hospitals burying them in the sand – on whether medmal is out and breach of contract is in. These lawsuits could have ...
Read More »Director of Economic Development Dept. against subsidization of corporate sector
Increasingly, states lure companies to relocate their operations by offering bundles of tax incentives. There are numerous critics who decry this so-called subsidization of the corporate sector, including the head of Missouri’s Department of Economic Development. “I would argue it ...
Read More »Request to have eyes flushed of mace tantamount to refusal of breath test
The law governing license revocation is black and white and only a request for an attorney shades the rule on taking a breathalyzer test. Therefore, a minor injury cannot keep a driver from submitting to a breath test, the Missouri ...
Read More »Supreme Court finds House Bill 58 unconstitutional
The state’s top court upheld a trial court decision that struck down a new law prohibiting people convicted of federal crimes from running for elective office. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that House Bill No. 58, which held that no ...
Read More »Starting a business harder than ever in the 21st Century
University of Oklahoma professor Patrick McCann grew weary of watching his students leave the state for jobs in the high-tech industries, so he decided to start a company of his own. He had one big problem, though: McCann had never ...
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