A claim has been made against me? Every question we answer on it, grouped by subject.
It can become one once the claim is rejected, or left unanswered for long enough, but exactly when is a legal question.
Send a letter of response within 28 days of receiving it, answering each part of the claim with reasons and any counterclaim of your own.
A claims consultant tests the claim made against you, builds the evidence and figures for your answer, and supports you through negotiation and adjudication.
Contemporaneous evidence is any record made at the time something happened, such as a diary entry, a dated photo or an email sent that day.
Yes, they can count as evidence against a claim, but you need to check each one's date, context and meaning, and that it is genuine.
It checks where your main contractor could bring a claim against you, then sets up the records and written answers that would defend it.
Not always: look first at what gaps in your records cost you on the last claim, because those gaps are what Counterclaim Prevention closes.
We fix the timetable first, writing down every date from the claim and the adjudicator's directions.
First, the claim, counterclaim or referral exactly as it arrived, and every date that is running, because we fix the timetable from them before anything else.
We check whether we can act from the names of the parties and the project, before you send us any confidential papers about the claim.