If your business supplies materials to customers on a credit basis, it is critical to assure that the person who places an order for materials was authorized to do so by the person/entity identified as the creditor on the credit agreement. This will be an essential...
Month: August 2020
Don’t Accept P.O. Box Numbers as an Address
When it becomes necessary to sue a debtor on a commercial debt, your lawyer will need to serve the defendant with a complaint and summon them to court. As it happens, the document demanding the defendant to appear before the judge is appropriately called a “summons”....
Tips for addressing commercial debt collection issues
A business cannot survive without a constant flow of capital. You and your team may be doing everything right, but if your customers are not paying you what they owe, things can get problematic very fast. In an ideal world, your clients pay in full, on time, with...
Proving Up Damages in a Home Construction/Remodeling Case
By Adam Whiteman, Commercial Collection Attorney Proving up damages in a residential construction defect case can be tricky business. Whereas the general rule is that the cost of repairing the defective work might seem the appropriate path to proving up damages, this...