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Right and Wrong Ways To Use Others' Patents By statute, the military and other government agencies have the right to use any patented invention to further valid government missions, and this right may be extended to government contractors. |
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Mitigating the Risk of Defense Base Act Insurance The Defense Base Act requires many U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to provide workers' compensation insurance to their overseas-based employees working on U.S. military bases and government projects. |
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Not Hard to Run Afoul of False Claims Act Under the "reckless disregard" standard, a contractor can violate the act by not paying attention to the truth or dishonest information provided to the government in a manner that can be characterized as "reckless." |
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TOH's 6-Point Plan for Getting the Best 2005 Looking for a good home project or repair contractor? Follow our step-by-step plan and you could land someone every bit as good as the ones we found. |
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Insuring Your Small Business Once you've created a successful small business, you'll want to ensure that your business is protected from various kinds of risk. One way is to buy a business insurance policy. |
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Jackson & Edwards |
It's A Wrap The increase in condominium construction in recent years likely will lead to an increase in construction litigation. To minimize risk associated with litigation and safeguard their projects, condominium development teams should purchase adequate insurance coverage. |
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August 2006
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Get It Covered Insure your business from the start. |
CIO
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Independents' Day You may call them contractors, but the courts say they're employees. A look at the problems that can come from mischaracterizing an employee as an independent contractor and steps you can take to avoid problems. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
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Property Casualty Insurance As a business owner, you know the importance of protecting your real estate business from financial loss. Some risks may be acceptable, but many are not. |
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March 2005
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Hired Help The pros and cons of hiring independent contractors. |
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Liability Solutions Commercial real estate practitioners need to be concerned about liability issues that can result from handling complex transactions. A comprehensive real estate errors and omissions policy is a necessity. |
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Covering Up Without appropriate liability coverage - which most experts place at 100% of net worth - a single incident could destroy an entire portfolio. |
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February 2005
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Here Comes Trouble The IRS scrutinizes the returns of entrepreneurs who may misclassify workers as independent contractors instead of employees. Here's how to avoid independent-contractor snags. |
The Motley Fool
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When and How to Hire a Contractor Before hiring a contractor to work on your house, review these tips. |
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Apology Accepted E&O insurance can help make up for mistakes. |
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Taking Cover You can make life easier for clients later if you push them to get excess liability insurance now. |
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Who's Who? Are you wondering whether one of your workers has been misclassified as a contractor? Ask yourself these questions. |
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Mark Steffen |
Don't Fall for These Contractor Lines Sure, there are honest contractors. But there are rip-off artists too. Learn the words that are warning signs. |
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Going Separate Ways Pay attention to "separation of insureds" in your company's insurance policies. If the company is sued over bad behavior by one employee, innocent parties may get separate treatment. |
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Insuring Your Business A closer look at the insurance coverage businesses should have includes consideration of growing companies and special circumstances. |
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Employee or Contractor? The wrong answer could cost you. |
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Using Contractor Referral Websites Tips for using online resources to get the best contractors for your projects. |
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Alison Brown |
Companies Raise Intellectual Property Protection Issues A survey by the National Defense Industrial Association reports instances where government employees improperly handled proprietary technical data, including the release of information to competitors. |
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4 Tips for Hiring Contractors (and 10 Ways to Avoid Scammers): DIY Guy How to avoid sleazy or shady tactics, check the construction work, check the paperwork, and check the bills. |
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Get an Insurance Checkup: Part 2 Insurance is a tricky subject, rife with complexity and confusing language and concepts. If you remember that your main goal in buying insurance is to reduce your own risk, it's easier to evaluate exactly what risks you have and therefore what sort of insurance you really need. |
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Keep Lawsuits off Your Back 5 ways to reduce your liability risk. |
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How To Spot a Crooked Contractor The following tips from This Old House general contractor Tom Silva and the National Association of Home Builders will help you spot a crook. |
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May 2008
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Contractors' Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny Contractors may soon be required to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest. |
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March 2012
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Take Heed of Post-Employment Restrictions The new Defense Acquisition Regulation System clause requires offers on Defense Department contracts to represent that all covered ex-department officials expected to work on any resulting contract are in compliance with all post-employment restrictions. |
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Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Consistency, Consensus Needed on Industry Profits Although there is a widespread perception that defense contracts yield healthy profits, in reality, the way government officials view profits can be drastically different from the way industry measures that profit. |
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Environmental Deal Breakers Environmental liability concerns can serve as major deal breakers during commercial real estate sales and transfers. |
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New Executive Pay Rules Go Into Effect The comment period recently ended for an interim rule, "Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards," which implements the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. |
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Retired but Not Forgotten How much D&O coverage do former officers and directors need? |
