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Construction contractors who help with search recovery, cleanup and other disaster-related efforts would be granted special protections when providing those services under newly introduced federal legislation. The legislation, crafted with input from the Associated General Contractors of America, applies specifically ...

With a new justice in the line-up for the first time in 11 years, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin its new term on Oct. 3. After ending its last term with a bang, with controversial decisions in eminent domain ...

The mass excavation of 100,000 cubic yards of soil began earlier this week at the Sprint Center site. The work is estimated to take 10 weeks, according to Allen Troshinsky of M.A. Mortenson, the Minneapolis-based company selected to serve as ...

Marketing executives don’t always speak the same language as architects, engineers and construction workers, but consultants Nick Ruehl and Kathy Tait say there are ways to overcome communication obstacles. Ruehl, president of Excelsior, Minn. strategic facility development firm Ruehl + ...

The Missouri Tort Reform Act took effect at the end of August, but this law is not necessarily the end of tort reform efforts in the state. State Sen. Christopher Koster, R-31st District, speaking to a crowd of lawyers and ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a Kansas City attorney’s three-year suspension from the practice of law before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Michael R. Fletcher, a partner at Simpson Sanders ...

Where an employee was denied severance pay after being terminated for viewing unauthorized files, the plan administrator’s determination that the employee was fired for cause and thus ineligible for benefits was not an abuse of discretion, and summary judgment in ...

Laws making it tougher to declare bankruptcy are set to go into effect Oct. 17 – just as the number of people who might need the financial lifeline is expected to surge. A troublesome mix of circumstances, including higher energy ...

Six months after the passage of the Class Action Fairness Act, the legislation, touted as significant tort reform that would decrease class abuses, has had little impact on the court system. The act, which was signed by President George W. ...

It took Jennifer Schwendemann just 15 years after finishing law school to reach the pinnacle of her workers’ compensation career, but her recent step down from chief administrative law judge has set her on a path to bigger and brighter ...

Ask an employer to identify the biggest and fastest-growing cost issue business faces today, and chances are the response is health care insurance. Ask Howard Danzig the reason, and his response is lack of accountability and lack of responsible utilization ...