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A federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois recently awarded nearly $23 million to the developer of a luxury hotel in Chicago’s trendy West Loop arising from multiple breaches of contract and fraud by its design-builder. What is particularly striking about the judgment in NHC LLC v. Centaur...
During the 2022 legislative session, the Virginia General Assembly passed Senate Bill 550 (“SB 550”), which Virginia Governor Youngkin signed into law. SB 550 amends a portion of the Virginia Prompt Payment Act and a component of the Virginia wage theft statute, prohibiting “pay-if-paid” clauses in...
Property insurers faced with COVID-19 related claims for business income losses can take comfort in the recent trend of most appellate courts to find in favor of insurers that have denied coverage based on policy language requiring direct physical loss or damage. What You Need to Know: Many...
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to interpretation of ambiguous policy terms, evaluation of claimant’s expert witness, inclusion of law firms as appropriate parties from whom plan administrators may seek equitable relief, transfer of cases from the claimant’s choice of venue, and...
Jim Rohlfing, a Partner in the firm's Construction Practice, will speak during Illinois State Bar Association Construction Committee webinar.
James Rohlfing, a partner in SEA&L's Construction Practice, will present a CLE webcast for the Illinois State Bar Association on September 1, 2022. The topic will be "Illinois Makes General Contractors Liable for Paying Subcontractors’ Workers – NOW WHAT?" Public Act 102-1076, which was signed by...
Michael Metz-Topodas brings significant experience to his new role as a partner in Saul Ewing’s Construction Practice, including representing clients in construction-related litigation and disputes and counseling them on construction law matters. He resides in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Mr...
Michael Metz-Topodas brings significant experience to his new role as a partner in Saul Ewing’s Construction Practice, including representing clients in construction-related litigation and disputes and counseling them on construction law matters. He resides in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Mr...
Jim Rohlfing, a Partner in the firm's Construction Practice, will speak at the Illinois Mechanical and Specialty Contractors Association event.
The CFPB is now ready to directly regulate the purveyors of digital consumer marketing. The CFPB new rule clarifies when digital marketers and financial products sellers are subject to consumer protection regulations. Digital marketers that are "materially involved" in the development of content...
This month’s Friday Five addresses cases considering: (1) whether monetary relief in the amount of lost benefits is an available remedy for breach of fiduciary duty; (2) the validity of an ex-spouse’s beneficiary designation that contradicts a subsequent divorce decree; (3) if waiver of a pre...
Lisa Colon, Partner at Saul Ewing, will be on the faculty of a live 90-minute CLE webinar on Construction Defect Defenses: Loss Mitigation, Economic Waste, Right to Repair, Betterment Doctrine on August 3, 2022. This CLE course will advise construction counsel on the most common defenses to...
A Delaware trial court, applying New Jersey and Delaware law, recently ruled that a general contractor, despite not being a party to either a loan agreement or loan commitment, could successfully recover damages from a construction lender. See BCD Assocs., LLC v. Crown Bank, No. CV N15C-11-062 EMD...
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to interpretation of regulatory deadlines, the enforceability of discretionary clauses, circuit courts going both ways on appeals from summary judgment rulings in favor of plans, and a benefits award for a former professional football player where the...
Case: Bain v. Airoom, LLC, 2022 IL App (1st) 211001 A recent Illinois appellate decision warns that overbroad form arbitration agreements in construction contracts may be unenforceable.