It seems unlikely that a project's construction manager, which agreed to a $600,000 fee, could be held responsible for over $14 million in lost profits for a four-month delay to the project, yet it ...

Construction contracts—whether between owners and architects or owners and contractors—often contain mutual waivers of consequential damages; however, before agreeing to such a waiver, owners and ...

In his Contract Law column, Glen Banks, a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright (Fulbright & Jaworski), discusses an opinion in which a sharply divided Court of Appeals ruled this week that a "no ...

Companies entering the federal market for the first time are often concerned about potential liability for consequential or punitive damages in connection with breach of a federal contract. These ...

There are plenty of terms and provisions in a construction contract which can sound pretty definitive but which can actually prove to be anything but certain. A waiver of consequential damages is one ...

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"Firms will not be able to contest liability with respect to the illiquidity of ARS holdings or ARS sales," Fienberg said in the release. However, the special procedures will be limited to investors ...

General damages is the proper measure of damages for the breach of a contractual right to notice of an opportunity to invest in a company at its inception, the Maryland Supreme Court held in a ...