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Construction

[09/03] Hundreds of Volunteers Spending Labor Day Vacation Building Homes for Low-Income Families as Part of Worldwide Housing Event
[09/02] Matrix Service Sets Date to Discuss Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year Ended June 30, 2010
[09/02] Remodeling Magazine Ranks Sun Design Remodeling Specialists #30 Among Nation's Top 550 Remodelers
[09/02] Concern Appeals for Help in Funding 'Houses For Haiti'

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Employment Practices

[08/19] Workplace deaths fall to lowest level since 1992
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Insurance

[09/02] Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. to Speak at the Keefe Bruyette & Woods Insurance Conference
[09/02] Starting the School Year Right
[09/02] Chubb Board Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend
[09/02] SIR Anticipates Record-Breaking Annual Conference

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Litigation

[08/26] Mass. reaches $1.35M settlement with biotech co.
[08/19] Billionaire Donald Bren breaks privacy in lawsuit
[08/12] Judge orders Wells Fargo to pay back $203M in fees
[08/09] Astra pays $198 mln to settle Seroquel lawsuits

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Sports

[09/03] Tiger takes another step at Deutsche Bank
[09/03] Finally game time for eager Hogs
[09/03] No. 12 Wisconsin ready to run against UNLV
[09/03] LB Wilson looks to live up to promise for Illini

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Case Summaries

Construction

[09/01] Hinerfeld-Ward, Inc. v. Lipian
In a general contractor's suit against homeowners for breach of oral contract, quantum meruit, wrongful withholding of progress payments, and related cause of action, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed as, the oral contract was enforceable and the contractor is entitled to attorney fees for the homeowners' delay in making progress payments.

[08/31] Great W. Contractors, Inc. v. Irvine Unified Sch. Dist.
In plaintiff-contractor's suit against a school district (District), challenging the District's rejection of plaintiff's bid to remodel two elementary schools, trial court's judgment in favor of the District is reversed where: 1) trial court was incorrect in rejecting plaintiff's lowest bid as nonresponsive as, under D.H. Williams, 146 Cal.App.4th 757 (2007), a public agency cannot reject the bid of the lowest bidder on a public works project on the theory that the bid is nonresponsive to the agency's request for bids when, in substance, the real reason for the rejection is that the agency thinks the lowest bidder is "not responsible" - at least not without giving the lowest bidder the chance for a hearing on whether the lowest bidder really is "not responsible"; and 2) the trial court abused its discretion in rejecting plaintiff's admittedly belated request to amend.

[08/31] Force Framing, Inc. v. Chinatrust Bank
In plaintiff's suit against defendant-lender for a bonded stop notice, trial court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment because plaintiff served the statutorily required 20-day preliminary notice on another lender, and not defendant, is reversed where: 1) the trial court erred when it granted summary judgment because there is a triable issue of fact regarding the reasonableness of plaintiff's belief that another lender was the lender for the project; 2) defendant's argument that plaintiff could not have held a good faith belief that the other lender was the actual lender because plaintiff did not check the county records for the deed of trust that the lender recorded in 2005 is rejected; and 3) the court is not persuaded that, as a matter of law, pursuant to Kodiak, plaintiff had constructive notice that defendant was the actual lender and could not have held a good faith belief that the other lender was the actual lender.

[08/30] Miranda v. Bomel Constr. Co., Inc.
In plaintiff's negligence suit against a general subcontractor and a subcontractor, claiming that defendants negligently, carelessly and unlawfully allowed excavated dirt, located in a vacant lot next to his office, to be in a dangerous, defective, and unlawful condition so as to cause plaintiff to suffer severe injuries and damages when he breathed the particles from the excavated dirt, trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants is affirmed where: 1) defendants met their burden of proof it was only a possibility, not a reasonable medical probability, plaintiff contracted Valley Fever by inhaling an airborne Cocci spore that originated from the soil at the site; and 2) trial court properly sustained the evidentiary objections to plaintiff's experts' speculative conclusions about causation.

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