Index to August 2007 Brickerconstructionlaw.com Newsletter

Feature Articles

After Six Months on Job, OSFC's New Executive Director Speaks with Unique Insight, Pride & Hope for Program
Mike Shoemaker, new head of the Ohio School Facilities Commission, shares some of his goals, challenges, and plans with Brickerconstructionlaw.com’s Maureen Taylor. 

Group Evaluating OSFC Regs Makes 36 Recommendations
On August 23, the task force appointed by Governor Strickland to evaluate the OSFC’s regulations and processes made its final report, and we give you a bird’s eye view of all 36 of its recommendations. 

Monthly Columns

Construction-Related Legislation
The 127th Ohio General Assembly is underway. Keep up-to-date with pending construction-related legislation, updated daily.

What the Courts Are Saying . . .
In addition to updating our readers on the Dugan & Meyers case, this month’s column sums up five recent opinions from as many courts. The first two deal with prevailing wage and come from the Ohio Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for Williams County. Then we look at what an Indiana Court of Appeals had to say about a contractor’s liability for an accident allegedly caused by completed and accepted work. The Court of Appeals for Wood County supplied our fourth decision, explaining who pays for relocating utilities in connection with widening a road. Finally, we examine a federal opinion (from the Northern District of Ohio) resolving a dispute between a contractor’s bank and the same contractor’s surety.  

Holman, Gillis & Shevelow on Construction Documents: Reviewing the OSFC Documents for Construction Projects
For our Back to School issue, Sylvia Gillis provides an overview of the documents related to OSFC-co-funded projects and explains how and when they are used.  

OSHA Corner: What's New in the World of Job Safety?
Andrew Balcar looks at some of the latest news on the job safety front. 

ADR Corner: Arbitration Clauses -- To Enforce or Not To Enforce?
How the courts look at arbitration clauses has changed over the years, and David Riddle, P.E., looks briefly at some of that history and the reasons behind it. 

Upcoming Seminars
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