Claims in United States
| Article | Place | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| Extension of time in the United StatesThere is no single US rule. Federal contracting, private AIA-form work and each state's no-damage-for-delay law answer the same facts differently. | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| United States delay claim clocksThree layers, and a claim can die at any of them: AIA's 21-day Claim window, FAR's stacked notice and cost cut-offs, and the CDA's six-year bar. | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in the United StatesThe claim-within-a-claim trap. Whether a bare time request is itself a Claim, and why a Contracting Officer's grant of time never proves excusable delay. | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Prevention and time at large in the United StatesUS law has neither doctrine. The same commercial result runs through LD non-apportionment, the implied duty not to hinder, and Spearin. | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Concurrent delay in the United StatesConcurrency is a rule of proof, not substantive law. In federal practice the contractor, not the owner, carries the burden of separating the delays. | United States | October 6, 2026 |
| No-damage-for-delay clauses in the United StatesThe same clause is enforceable in Texas and void in Ohio. Sixteen state statutes, eight verified and eight reported, plus the Rhode Island error corrected. | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Acceleration and constructive acceleration in the United StatesA claim parasitic on the extension-of-time claim. The Fraser five elements, where claims die under Amatea/Grimberg, and the rules on protest and cost. | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Change orders in the United StatesConstructive change, cardinal change and the release on the bilateral modification. Federal and private US change-order practice, and California's statutory procedure. | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Written instruction and waiver in the United StatesNo signed change order. Private work can be waived by conduct; public and federal work turn on authority, not formality, and only the Contracting Officer binds the government. | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Constructive change in the United StatesThe Bell/Heery two-element test, the FAR 52.243-4 clause that carries it, and why Spearin is narrower than it is usually stated. | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Cardinal change in the United StatesWhen a change stops being a change and becomes a breach. A cost multiple alone rarely gets there, and only one state high court has expressly adopted the doctrine. | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Change order releases and reservation of rights in the United StatesBell BCI is why a change-order release is a genuine claim-killer — the Federal Circuit reversed the contractor's cumulative-impact win. What the release does, and the reservation that held in Alares. | United States | October 6, 2026 |