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Firestop Materials Attack Sprinkler Pipes! By: Kyle Pineo, Esq. of Berding | Weil LP and William M. McKeon, Esq. of McKeon Sheldon Mehling, LLLC Berding | Weil LP and McKeon Sheldon Mehling LLLC sometimes find irony in our construction defect cases. Here’s one: building products that together are intended to increase safety turn out to [...]

Partner Keri C. Mehling’s article on 7 Reasons to Avoid Litigation in Association Disputes was featured in the Building Management Hawaii November 2019 issue. See below for featured article.   Click here to be directed to the featured magazine on Building Management Hawaii’s website.  

The tragic fire that broke out on Friday, July 14, 2017, at the Marco Polo Apartments in Honolulu has catalyzed action on the part of Hawaii’s legislators to mandate retrofitting of high-rise apartments to include automatic fire sprinklers. The fire, which broke out on the 26th floor, quickly spread to multiple units in the high-rise […]

Unfortunately, we can all picture this scene.  On a Saturday night (September 10, 2016 to be exact), college students at a three-story house owned by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut were having a house party.   About 50-60 students were on the decks off the third, second and first floors, having a good time, when the […]

Serving on a board of directors for an association – a voluntary job – has stringent requirements.  The below list identifies for the board of directors their obligations and fiduciary duties to the association. Failure to fulfill these obligations could lead to a lawsuit against the association, the board, and even you personally. The obligations […]