Legal Corner
How OSHA is Trying to Reduce the Burden on Employers
By Cotney Construction Law for WSRCA. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is instituting a handful of new rules that took effect on July 15, 2019. The overarching goal of these updates is to streamline processes, decrease paperwork, and preserve funds. The final rule will lead to fourteen standards revisions related to record ...
A Look at Arbitration Misconceptions
By Cotney Construction Law. Arbitrations are less costly than a litigation because arbitrators are not held to the same constraints of a court litigation. A construction arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process in which a non-affiliated third party, better known as an arbitrator, reviews a case between two or more ...
Employers Need to Tread Carefully When Using Drones on Projects
By Kyle Gretel, Cotney Construction Law. Potential pitfalls of drone use on construction sites. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more colloquially known as drones, are the topic of conversation in multiple industries and are used in a variety of different applications. From delivery of a kidney to a transplant recipient to aerial photography, drones ...
