Richard Erickson

As a mediator helping to settle construction disputes and as an arbitrator deciding outcomes of these disputes, I found certain lessons to be especially helpful after graduating last summer from the Executive Education...more In September of 2025, the Arizona Supreme Court held that an anti-assignment clause in the sale of a home between the builder and buyer did not prohibit the assignment of claims arising from that contract. Specifically, the...more Insurance has always been a critical backdrop in risk analysis. This is because when buying insurance, “an insured usually does not seek to realize a commercial advantage but, instead, seeks protection and security from...more When presiding recently as mediator in a multi-party construction dispute, one of the contractor’s representatives asked me during a pre-mediation caucus to identify the one thing I needed from them for the mediation to...more