Homeowners are increasingly discovering that the check they wrote to a general contractor was only the beginning of the bill.

When you sign a home improvement contract, you probably picture one company showing up, doing the work, and sending a bill.

Under Ohio’s Prompt Pay Act, a general contractor could end up paying more for the subcontractor’s attorneys’ fees than the general contractor owed to the subcontractor. That was the ruling by the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) – An Edmond family is ...

If an owner or general contractor fails to timely pay on a project, you may be entitled to prompt pay interest. Prompt payment acts are intended to deter late payments by general contractors and ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI – A Michigan man is accused of conducting a fraud scheme in which he was hired to build houses, received payment and then pocketed the money, police said. David Jon Jenkins, 23, of ...

Prompt payment statutes are laws enacted at the federal and state levels that set specific deadlines for payment and limit the amount of retention that can be withheld on construction projects. These ...

As Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration works to improve the timeliness of payments to city contractors, city subcontractors are still being hung out to dry when their bosses don’t ensure everyone ...