Where conflicts hide on construction cases
A crane collapse, a trench failure or a fall from a scaffold usually names a general contractor, several subcontractors, an equipment owner, a rental company, a manufacturer and an engineering firm. Many of them are subsidiaries of a bigger company and do business under a different name than the one on your CV.
- Parent companies and subsidiaries. Is the defendant a subsidiary of a company you work for or used to work for, even though the names look nothing alike?
- Union locals. Is your own local, the international, or a union pension, welfare or training fund a party? Is a sister local under the same international on the case?
- Employers and job history. Is a defendant your current or past employer, or a company you ran jobs for?
- Side history. Have you worked for a party who is now on the other side? That is exactly what opposing counsel looks for.
- Opposing counsel. Has the firm on the other side retained you before?
Why experts choose ConflictPro
Built inside a working expert firm
Most tools in this space are built by software developers. ConflictPro is built by the people who place the experts, and by the experts who use it.
ConflictPro comes from Med Legal Pro, the medical-legal consulting firm Tracy Liberatore, Esq., PA-Emeritus, founded in 2016. Her team screens and matches medical and nursing experts on med mal, personal injury, nursing home and wrongful death cases for plaintiff, defense and criminal attorneys.
It runs our own caseload every day
Med Legal Pro's cases, experts and engagements live in ConflictPro, with thousands of conflict checks run on real cases.
Our experts use it on live cases
Med Legal Pro's own nurse and physician experts use ConflictPro on live cases, and their feedback shapes what gets built.
Every rule comes from a real conflict
The parent company check, the facility and date overlap, and the side history rules each exist because a conflict like it would have gotten an expert struck.
Company ownership from public SEC filings
Public contractors, engineering firms, equipment makers and rental companies list their subsidiaries in their annual SEC filings. ConflictPro loads those lists so a defendant that belongs to the same parent as a company in your history is flagged, with the filing named as the source.
Union ties, checked local by local
Name matching gets unions wrong in both directions. "IUOE Local 542" and "International Union of Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 542" are the same local, while "IUOE Local 542" and "IUOE Local 66" are not. ConflictPro reads the international and the local number on both sides.
- Hard conflict. Your own local, a fund of your own local, or the international your local belongs to is a party, and your tie is current.
- Soft flag. A sister local or a regional union fund is a party, your tie has ended, or your local number is not on file yet.
- No flag. A different trade's union, or a company that just has a trade word in its name.
The same system, set up for your field
The Construction & Engineering edition runs on the same engine as every ConflictPro plan: the two level conflict check, case tracking, contracts with e-signature, retainers, a time clock and billing tracking. It ships with construction case types such as crane and rigging incidents, trench and excavation collapses, construction defect and delay claims, and every list stays editable. See the conflict check page and the practice management page.
Plans start at $49 a month at beta pricing with a 14-day free trial on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
Is ConflictPro only for medical experts?
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No. ConflictPro serves experts and expert firms in every field. The Construction & Engineering edition adds company ownership from SEC filings, the union check and construction case types.
I work for a union local. How does the check treat that?
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Add your union and local number to your profile. Your own local, its funds or the international as a party is a hard conflict while your tie is current. A sister local or a regional fund is a soft flag for you to review and disclose.
Does it catch subsidiaries with different names?
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Yes, for companies whose subsidiaries are listed in public SEC filings. A defendant under the same parent as a company in your history is flagged even when the names differ.
What proof do I have that a check was run?
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Every check is written to a permanent log with the date, who ran it, the expert and case, and the outcome: Cleared, Soft Flag or Hard Conflict.