These two important legal developments have been the subject of debate, efforts and controversy for years.

An Oct. 20 decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals promises serious consequences to the local construction industry as well as its liability carriers.

A union representing government engineers in Ontario is taking aim at a pair of newly released reports on the deck problem that temporarily closed the newly opened Nipigon River Bridge last winter, severing a major highway link between eastern and western Canada.

Connecticut’s commissioner of consumer protection, Jonathan A. Harris, expects to issue a report this fall on the “potential cause or causes” of failing concrete foundations in northeastern Connecticut.