Let me see if I have missed any excuses. In my practice, when the general contractor fails to pay a final pay application, the most frequent responses given are: He hasn’t been paid yet. The architect is slow in issuing the...

It’s human nature to be more vocal when complaining than complimenting. That means I hear a lot more about what goes wrong than what goes right. I retell these stories because you should learn from your (and others’) mistakes...

In my January column, to start off your new year with fresh thinking, I posed seven scenarios. The key question in each was whether the electrical contractor acted reasonably. Before you read the answers below, pull out the...