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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. ...
Document Retention: Rules of Thumb for Design Professionals
Document Retention In this age of terabyte-sized digital memory banks and the seemingly infinite storage possibilities of “the cloud,” understanding...
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....
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...
Project Insurance & Owners Protective Insurance: What’s the difference?
The protection offered by Project Insurance and Owners Protective Insurance is very similar. But the route the two policies take to arrive at that...
Design Professionals and the Give and Take of “Standard Contracts”
The word standard implies many things. A bar to be cleared; a rubric to be followed. But for design professionals, the word becomes tricky when...
Owners and Contractors Protective Liability Insurance
Owners and Contractors Protective Liability (also known as OCP or OCPL policy) covers the interest of the owner of a property for the duration of a...
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...
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...