Iowa has been burning through their mechanics lien laws over the past few years. Significant changes took effect on January 1, 2013, which created a “State Construction Registry” website modernizing...
On January 1, 2013, significant changes to Iowa mechanics lien law went into effect. (The PAID blog discussed these changes just a few days after their effective date.) Amazingly, the legislature isn’t quite done...
Last year, Scott mentioned pending legislation in Iowa, that if passed, would drastically alter the construction lien landscape in that state. Well, the effective date for that legislation has come,...
The Iowa Supreme Court took on a mechanics lien case this month in Flynn Builders LLC v. Landes, and reversed the trial court and appeals court decision that was based...
More than 2 years ago, I asked whether Utah’s SCR (State Construction Registry) was a model for the rest of the nation. The Iowa legislature answered my question this month,...
Last year, I wrote a blog post titled: “Is Utah’s SCR (State Construction Registry) A Model For Rest of States?,” and it appears the government in Iowa may have been...