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Month: March 2020

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Summary of Construction Activities that Qualify as “Essential Business Services” Under Washington’s Stay Home-Stay Safe Order

Governor Inslee issued Proclamation 20-25, the Stay Home-Stay Healthy emergency order (“Stay Home Order”) for the state of Washington, which goes into effect at Midnight on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 for companies doing business in Washington.

Pursuant to the Stay Home Order, “all people in Washington State are immediately prohibited from leaving their home or place of residence except to conduct or participate in (1) essential activities, and/or (2) employment in providing essential business services[.]”

COVID-19 – a Force Majeure Event

It’s an “act of God,” a “superior force,” an extraordinary event that is beyond your control, so it has to be a force majeure event – – doesn’t it? ince the outbreak of COVID-19 in the Seattle area and across the State of Washington, Carney Badley Spellman has – understandably – received an increasing number of inquiries from construction industry clients regarding the legal ramifications of what is now a growing pandemic . . .

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