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Landscaping: the long answers.
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4 articles on landscaping
- Landscaping · 9 min read
Tree work: why it rates differently from the rest of landscaping
Tree work rates apart from landscaping in Colorado: height, lifts, saws, cranes, the comp classification, and the 1099 climber the state may call an employee. Read the article - Landscaping · 8 min read
Defensible-space work in the WUI: what the contracts require and what your policy has to say
Defensible-space work in Colorado's WUI: who writes the contracts, what the insurance exhibit asks for, local codes in Vail and Summit, and what GL has to say. Read the article - Landscaping · 8 min read
Herbicide overspray and the pollution exclusion in your GL
Colorado's applicator statute is satisfied by a GL with a pollution exclusion, so a licensed landscaper can have no drift coverage. The gap and the fix. Read the article - Landscaping · 8 min read
Retaining walls: when a hardscape job turns into an engineering claim
A block wall in expansive clay lets go two springs later. Completed operations, the 'your work' exclusion, drainage, the engineer question, and the floater. Read the article
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