1.   -- Check court records to determine whether the contractor has been sued.

2.   A year later, he sued a contractor.

3.   Check court records to determine if the contractor has been sued and how the case was resolved.

4.   Check court records to determine if the contractor has been sued.

5.   Check court records to determine whether the contractor has been sued.

6.   His current lawyer, Sheldon Singer, said many contractors are sued because of the highly technical and confusing nature of their business.

7.   In that case, the two Pig Brothers sued their contractor for shoddy work.

8.   Last week, however, an injured worker and the families of two who were killed sued contractor Industrial Maintenance Inc. of Wichita.

9.   Sue the contractor, of course.

10.   They tested five days later and found residue on the sill, so she sued the contractor in small claims and won several hundred dollars.