{"id":3827,"date":"2018-12-21T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2020-12-12T18:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:34:28","slug":"2018-annual-summary-construction-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/2018-annual-summary-construction-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Annual Summary Construction \/ Procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to offer this comprehensive summary of the major construction and procurement developments in 2018 that have an impact on public and private owners, contractors and developers. Topics include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contractor Notice Obligations Enforced by Washington Supreme Court<\/li>\n<li>Continuing Validity of <em>Bignold v. King County<\/em> at Issue in Fish Bypass Renovation Dispute<\/li>\n<li>First Breach Doctrine Prevents Strict Enforcement of Notice Requirement<\/li>\n<li>King County Superior Court Interprets GC\/CM Statute<\/li>\n<li>Design \/ Build Statute Changes under Consideration in 2019<\/li>\n<li>From the Vault: Beware of Contractual Insurance Requirements<\/li>\n<li>Attorney-Client Privilege Does Not Extend to Communications with Former Employees<\/li>\n<li>Expert Discovery: Draft Reports Not Discoverable Under Civil Rules<\/li>\n<li>Expert Discovery: Oso Landslide Expert Email Deletion Debacle<\/li>\n<li>100 Years Later, <em>Spearin <\/em>Doctrine Continues to Evolve<\/li>\n<li>Erroneous Bid Documents Lead to Negligent Misrepresentation Claim<\/li>\n<li>Venue Issue Decided in Tunneling Dispute<\/li>\n<li>Excavation Contractor Held Liable Under Utility Locate Statute<\/li>\n<li>Incorporation of Arbitral Rules Divests Court of Jurisdiction to Decide Arbitrability<\/li>\n<li>Bond Principal Not Necessary Party in Action to Foreclose Against Release of Lien Bond<\/li>\n<li>Retainage Statute:\u00a0 New Amendment Allows Subcontractors (Maybe) to Compel Release of Retainage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Construction-Group-2018-Year-in-Review.pdf\">Read the full Annual Summary &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to offer this comprehensive summary of the major construction and procurement developments in 2018 that have an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction","category-news","category-library"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/NR_SmithTower.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}