Real estate leases are, by their nature, bets the parties are placing on what the future may hold. Both landlord interests and tenant interests try to hedge their bets by inserting clauses to produce ...
Liquidated damages provisions are common to all types of agreements, from leases to construction contracts. While liquidated damages provisions may appear “boilerplate” and full of legalese, they ...
In their Commercial Division Update, George Bundy Smith, an arbitrator and mediator with JAMS, and Thomas J. Hall, a partner with Chadbourne & Parke, write that a party challenging the validity of a ...
The High Court ruled that compensation, penalties, and liquidated damages for contract breaches are not subject to GST, as they are not consideration for a supply. Key takeaway: GST applies only to ...
Officials say the reopening of the Owensboro Bridge has been pushed again. The contractor has been charged more than $1.5 ...
Dec. 3—Health care staffing companies based in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania will pay a combined $2.4 million to resolve allegations they misclassified workers — including some from New Hampshire — ...
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