If you're a contractor, you need to know the business structure of your subcontractors to avoid having a problem with the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS requires that you send any independent ...

A subcontractor - contractor agreement is used when a contractor hires someone else (known as a subcontractor) to help with a specific task on a project. For example, an HVAC expert may be brought in ...

To provide contractors, subcontractors, materials' suppliers and vendors a legal method of guaranteeing payment for their services on construction projects, state statutes allow them to file liens ...

In a decision with potentially huge ramifications for the construction industry, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found that employees of a framing and drywall subcontractor were also the employees ...

A Company, one of South Korea’s top 10 manufacturers, was recently taken aback after receiving collective bargaining demands from subcontractor unions. The surprise stemmed from the fact that the list ...

Unless the prime contractor formally defaults the subcontractor, there is no coverage under the policy and no way to collect on a policy claim, say Schrift, AON’s managing director. If you had to ...

When companies face a complex project that seems impossible to achieve, who do they call? Subcontractors! Despite more mergers and acquisitions happening now more than ever, big contractors still need ...

For federal government projects, when a payment dispute arises between a contractor and the agency, the contractor typically submits a request for equitable adjustment to the contract price. If the ...

The new year brings us some clarification regarding due process and sufficiency of the evidence necessary to support a subcontractor substitution on a California public works project. The case of note ...

The federal government’s effort in mobilizing more government contractors in recent years to help the nation move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic sets a favorable precedent for the professionals in ...