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How to Limit COVID-19 Related Legal Claims

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 01.11.21

In their Commentary, “How to Limit COVID-19 Related Legal Claims” in the January 2021 issue of Engineering News-Record, Meagan Bachman and Josh Lindsay of C&M discuss advice for limiting and mitigating the disputes that are coming as a result of COVID-19-related disruptions to construction projects. Even as the first vaccines are distributed around the globe, sustained challenges and cost and time impacts to projects can be expected. But there also are opportunities to mitigate the deleterious effects of COVID-19 and reduce the possibility of large-scale disputes down the road.

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