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In his fourth presentation focused on employer guidance regarding the COVID-19 Coronavirus, Kent Pagel, SBCA legal counsel and president of Pagel, Davis and Hill, gives a brief follow up on some of the topics he has covered in his past webinars.
SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel discusses the potential impacts of Coronavirus on the structural building components industry.
SBCA’s legal counsel, Kent Pagel, will start his series of 2020 webinars discussing legal topics first and foremost on the minds of component manufacturers.
In this webinar, SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel will provide further guidance to employers on how to navigate workforce/HR and business operation issues raised by the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.
SBCA’s legal counsel, Kent Pagel, will start his series of 2020 webinars discussing legal topics first and foremost on the minds of component manufacturers.
In this webinar, SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel will provide even more guidance to employers on how to navigate workforce/HR and business operation issues raised by the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.
Kent Pagel, SBCA’s national legal counsel, discusses the benefits of component manufacturers (CMs) being suppliers as opposed to subcontractors, while outlining how much of a CM’s activities are largely subcontracting from a risk perspective.
When a component manufacturer (CM) moves from a traditional sales model (contracting to sell only materials to the contractor or framer) to a turnkey sales model (contracting to sell materials and installation to the contractor) the CM’s risks increase demonstrably. Kent Pagel, SBCA’s counsel, will explain the risks associated with the turnkey sales model as well as the best practices associated with managing such risks.
Cash is the lifeblood of every component manufacturer. Getting paid and getting paid faster ought to be a goal of every manufacturer. Kent Pagel will offer suggestions, measures and rules for each component manufacturer to consider to ensure full and prompt payments.
Indemnities and insurance provisions can provide your customer with recourse against your company that is otherwise not normally recoverable. In this webinar, Kent Pagel discusses what your customers intend with the indemnity and insurance provisions they include in their form customer contracts. He also covers the key themes to consider when negotiating an indemnity provision.
Are you reviewing and taking exceptions to a project’s specifications and plan notes relating to framing and truss construction? Out of sight out of mind is not the proper response! Why is this so important? What needs to be done when a set of specifications or plan notes impose responsibilities that go beyond TPI-1? Are you adequately insured for the design risk that project plan notes and specifications may impose? SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel will address all of these questions and many more in this valuable risk management webinar.
Component manufacturers commonly ask about truss warranties. What type of warranty should I give my customers? If I give no written warranty have I protected my company? Are all my products covered by a one-year warranty or the same 30-year warranty that builders give their customers? Should I sign the contractor close-out warranty presented to get my final payment? Can I be sued after the expiration of the warranty? Should I warrant my products to only my customer? SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel will address all of these questions and many more in this valuable risk management webinar.
Almost every contract a CM is asked to sign, whether prepared by a vendor, lessor, or customer, will contain one or more indemnity provisions. Kent Pagel, SBCA’s outside national counsel discusses the basics of indemnity clauses and what they mean and require of component manufacturers (CMs). He also covers the implications to a CM agreeing to indemnity language as well as various industry standard replies when one-sided indemnity requests are made. Understanding indemnity basics and red flags is crucial to the risk management success and liability avoidance program of every CM.
Whether it’s a major or minor part of your business, selling trusses to lumberyards, distributors and other manufacturers can be a significant risk. Learn how to limit your liability and manage your risks in resale contracts.
As component manufacturers, we buy, design, manufacture, sell and warrant lumber in the form of a wood truss. That is what we do! But do we closely consider the risks and liabilities that lumber presents to the component manufacturer? Are there ways to manage these risks? This session will examine the risks and corresponding best practices component manufacturers can follow when buying lumber, designing with lumber, manufacturing with lumber, and selling and warranting a lumber value added product.
Kent has an in-depth understanding of our industry from quoting and contracting, through design, manufacturing, quality control and final delivery. Kent’s two part presentation will be geared to management and sales personnel with regards to the quoting and contracting process and the associated risks. Be sure to have your questions ready for Part 1 of this presentation and Part 2 which will be announced at a later date.