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What Should I Do if the Insurance Company Wants a Recorded Statement?
After you file an insurance claim, an adjuster may ask to speak with you about what happened. In some cases, the insurer will specifically request a recorded statement—a question-and-answer interview that is preserved as part of the claim file. If your insurance...
Houston Condo and HOA Construction Defect Lawyers
Who owns the claim, which statute governs your building, and what the clock is already doing SHORT ANSWER Defects inside your unit's boundaries are generally your claim. Defects in the common elements are the association's claim. That includes the foundation, the...
Can a Houston insurance claims attorney help if my claim is only partially denied or underpaid?
Yes. You do not need to receive a complete denial letter before an insurance dispute becomes worth challenging. An insurer may acknowledge that a covered loss occurred and still disagree over how much it owes. It might approve damage to one part of your property while...
The Texas Stowers Doctrine: When an Insurance Company Can Be Liable Beyond Policy Limits
A Texas liability insurer may owe more than its policy limits when it rejects a reasonable opportunity to settle a covered claim within those limits and the refusal causes a final judgment above coverage. Texas courts call this the Stowers doctrine, after G.A. Stowers...
7 Pasos Que Debe Tomar Después de un Accidente de Viaje Compartido en Texas
Filing a rideshare accident lawsuit in Texas requires moving fast, preserving the digital evidence buried inside the app, and working through layered insurance coverage that most car-wreck cases never involve. The seven steps below show you how to begin a legal claim...
McAllen ISD’s $15 Million Energy Savings Agreement Settlement: A Case Study
Case Snapshot Client McAllen Independent School District Contract type Energy Savings Agreement (Energy Savings Performance Contract) Defendant Ameresco, Inc. Core allegations Guaranteed energy savings never materialized; defective installation of conservation...
Fixed Price, Cost-Plus, or GMP: Which Construction Contract Protects You?
Every Pricing Model Is an Answer to One Question: Who Eats the Overrun? Welcome to The Owner’s Contract Playbook, a new series for building owners on winning the contract game. Our Foundations Series ended with the owner’s three big decisions; this series starts with...
How Modern Construction Projects Get Organized
Delivery Methods, Procurement, and the Return of the Master Builder Series finale. Before a single drawing exists, an owner makes three decisions: how to package the project, how to pick the builder, and how to price the risk. Those decisions, made on the calmest day...
The Contract Nobody Signed
Quantum Meruit, Unjust Enrichment, and the Bid You Can’t Take Back Courts enforce three kinds of obligations no one ever wrote down: contracts implied from conduct, “contracts” the law invents to stop unjust enrichment, and bids made irrevocable because someone relied...
Is a Letter of Intent Binding?
The Almost-Contract: Agreements to Agree, LOIs, and Deals Half-Made Judge Richard Posner called this “one of the most difficult areas of contract law,” and it is where construction deals actually live: term sheets, letters of intent, authorizations to proceed, and...
How Is a Construction Contract Formed?
The Mating Dance: Offers, Acceptances, and the Contracts You Sign by Accident Courts describe contract formation as a “mating dance,” and on a construction project the dance has strict steps: who offered, who accepted, and whether the two ever actually matched. Miss a...
How Can a Texas Commercial Litigation Lawyer Protect My Business?
A business dispute can threaten far more than the amount of money immediately at issue. Litigation may interrupt operations, strain important relationships, expose confidential information, and consume time that would otherwise be spent serving customers or growing...
When Does a Promise Become a Contract?
Hostages, Wax Seals, Handshakes, and the Deal You Didn’t Know You Made The law has spent three thousand years answering one question: which promises count? The answers, hostages, seals, peppercorns, and reliance, still decide construction cases today, including...
What Is Construction Law?
Six Bodies of Law, One Gordian Knot Ask what “construction law” is and most people guess “contract law for buildings.” That answer misses five-sixths of the field, and the missing five-sixths is usually where an owner’s case is won. By M. Colby Lewis, Construction...
Why Construction Disputes Are Unlike Any Other Legal Fight
The Death of the Master Builder, and the Birth of a “Separate Breed of Animal” An American court once compared a construction project to the middle of a battlefield. It was not exaggerating. Here is why building disputes have their own law, their own courts in some...
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