Attorney’s Fees’ Clauses in Professional Service Contracts

Attorney’s Fees’ Clauses in Professional Service Contracts

In the world of claims-related contract clauses for design professional agreements, the indemnity and defense clauses get all the attention.  However, lurking in the shadow of the indemnity clause is a menacing cousin with potentially even greater and more frequent...
Misc Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance

Misc Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance

We specialize in insuring design build professionals, but our misc E&O programs can cover a wide variety of firms with sales up to $1,000,000. Here’s a partial list of the business classes we can insure. Don’t see one you’re looking for? Give us...
Insuring Design-Build Risks

Insuring Design-Build Risks

Insuring design-build accounts entails understanding factors that are somewhat unique in the realm of insurance. Here’s an article from IRMI that does a good job of explaining some of the basic issues, namely:  1.) Risk Transfer is not enough – no one...
How to Avoid Invalidating Your Professional Liability Insurance

How to Avoid Invalidating Your Professional Liability Insurance

At a panel for the NC Bar Association Construction Law Winter Meeting, attorney Melissa Brumback and her colleagues discussed insurance issues for design professionals. One hot topic was the way architects and engineers can inadvertently invalidate their insurance by...
Sample Contract Clauses

Sample Contract Clauses

PDI is a proud member of a/e ProNet and we frequently refer our retail agents to resources made available by them. One such resource was in the February issue of their newsletter titled: Template of Reasonable Contract Clauses for Design Professionals It’s a...