Construction Claims - Debts, Bonds and Bankruptcy
Date(s): April 24, 2017
Duration: Half day session
Time: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Member Price: $300.00 + HST
Non-Member Price: $390.00 + HST
Who Should Attend: Project Managers, Estimators, Coordinators, Superintendents, Sales, Specification Writers, and Owners/Tender Calling Authorities.
Collecting unpaid debts on a project - what are your remedies? When requests for payment prove unsuccessful, the next step is a strongly worded letter from your legal counsel. This demand will often inform the debtor that a legal action will be commenced unless payment is received by a certain date. What are the possible remedies for payment - and how can the parties to the project protect themselves?
Topics:
• Debt claims - court actions
-Supreme Court of NS
-Small Claims Court
• Debt claims - enforcement of judgments
• Bankruptcy
-Secured creditors
-Proving your claim
-Common claim errors
-Property claims
-Discharge
-Proposals
• Bond claims
-General information
-Payment bonds / labour & material bonds
-Benefits
-Conditions
-Proving claims
-Defences of bonding companies
-Bid bonds
-Performance bonds
Cancellation Policy
-Cancellations must be received no later than 10 business days prior to the course date to be eligible for a 75% refund of registration fees.
-No refunds will be issued after this date.
-If you register for the course and do not attend, you are liable for the full registration fee unless you cancel according to the terms stated above.
-If you are unable to attend after registering you may send a substitute up to and including the day of the course. Please provide a name and email address for name tag and records.
-CANS reserves the right to cancel any course and will, in such an event, provide a full refund of registrations fees. Every effort will be made to give registrants a reasonable notice of cancellation.
-No liability is assumed by the organization for changes in course dates, content, speakers, or venue.