Change orders document scope modifications and the associated price and time adjustments. Disputes arise over whether work was extra or included, whether the change was properly authorized, and the pricing methodology.
Written change order requirements are frequently strict.
Alternative Names:
Change Order Claim, Contract Modification Dispute
Why it Matters?
Written authorization requirements are enforced against contractors who performed changed work on verbal direction, which is the recurring pattern and the recurring loss. Waiver and course of dealing arguments succeed where the owner routinely accepted work without written orders. Documenting direction contemporaneously, even where the formal change order lags, is what preserves the claim.
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What defeats change order claims?
What preserves the claim?
