Construction Administration Services as a Risk Management Strategy

By Mark Jackson, JCJ Insurance Construction Administration (CA) Services helps bridge the gap between design and construction. Being involved during the construction phase provides the best opportunity to notice when the project fails to conform to the design...

Check, Please…

By: James W. Walker, Esq. No design professional is perfect all the time and no set of construction documents is 100% “complete.” Often omitted items are caught and corrected before any harm occurs. Sometimes omissions from construction documents do cause the...

Is Code Compliance Enough to Meet the Standard of Care?

By Erin Johnson, JCJ Insurance Agency Design professionals are expected to perform their services consistent with the standard of care for their profession.  What is the standard of care?  When a negligence claim is made against a design professional, this is a...

Avoiding Scope Creep to Safeguard Your Firm’s Profitability

By Mark Jackson We typically see contract negotiations focus on legal protections such as indemnification, waivers and releases. While these are important aspects of a contract, they may actually be secondary to something that should come far more naturally to design...

The Value of a Constructability Review

By Travelers Insurance As a design professional, most projects you work on contain significant risks. One way to reduce these risks is to have a constructability review performed in order to increase the likelihood that your project is successful and minimize the...