I have often wondered whether there is such a thing as too small a dispute. Well, the parties in Earl Faulkner v. Tom Emmett Construction Company (pdf) determined to take their $3,000 construction dispute to the Tennessee Court of Appeals. In the end, the Court gave some good instructions on the "first material breach" rule, which
5 Construction and Design Lessons from a Healthcare Technology Summit
Two weeks ago I attended the Mobile Healthcare Technology Summit sponsored by Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee. The healthcare industry is one of the most regulated ones in the nation, which can present some special challenges for design and construction.
Although the summit focused on mobile technologies in the healthcare industry, I walked away