13Jul
Recovering Construction Costs for A Virus Outbreak—Shifting the Risk for Unforeseen Epidemic Costs Was Not Allowed
Now that COVID-19 impacts and costs are a fact of life, what can we expect in the way of decisions regarding compensation for costs incurred by contractors? If the case of Pernix Serka Joint Venture v. Department of State, CBCA 5683; 2020 WL 1970843 (April 2020) is any indicator in a federal government contract, costs incurred out of concern for worker safety and impacts arising during a virus outbreak (Ebola) were not compensable as either force majeure, cardinal change or a constructive...
By:
Snell & Wilmer
Related
Long term businesses in the retirement plan business don’t die overnight. It takes a very long time...
Read More >
Under California’s Proposition 60, which became enacted in 1986 as Revenue and Taxation Code sectio...
Read More >
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced significant changes to the EB-5 Immigran...
Read More >
In our brave new world of COVID-19 driven shutdowns and (hopefully) short-term economic changes and ...
Read More >
As we wrote in a previous On the Subject, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had signaled that it mi...
Read More >
What can we learn from past contracts, good and bad, and how they played out in the courtroom? In th...
Read More >