What happens if my company misses an OATH hearing?

Missing the hearing is a default: OATH imposes the maximum penalty — often several times the base charge — and it becomes a judgment against the respondent. You can request one new hearing per summons, granted automatically if OATH receives it within 75 days of the missed date.

Can unpaid OATH penalties block my DOB permits?

Yes — the Department of Buildings can refuse to issue new permits where $25,000 or more in penalties is outstanding, with narrow exceptions for corrective work. Unpaid judgments also follow the company as collectable debt.

How do I see every summons naming my company?

Search your company name exactly as it appears on a summons on DailyDog's free contractor lookup — it sweeps the city's hearing records and shows every summons, hearing date, and outstanding balance in your name across all job sites.

For construction companies

Your name is
on the summons.
We watch the docket.

When a DOB inspector writes a construction summons, the respondent is usually the contractor — not the owner. Every ticket, hearing date, default, and dollar lands on your company's docket, scattered across every job site you run. DailyDog reads the city's hearing records daily and barks before a missed date becomes a five-figure judgment.

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The docket board

Daily watch · every site, one calendar

323 E 58 St, Manhattanhearing in 21d
Summons 039543944L — worked through a stop-work order. Rescheduled after default: appear or the $25,000 stands.
100 Main St, Brooklynreopen closes 32d
4 defaults from the June calendar are still inside the 75-day window — file the reopen before it shuts.
All sitesbalance watch
Outstanding penalties are $8,400 from the $25,000 DOB permit-block threshold.

Re-checked every day · ordered by what costs you next

Why this needs a watchdog

Defaults multiply.

Miss the hearing and OATH imposes the maximum — a $5,000 charge becomes a $25,000 judgment. You get ONE automatic do-over per summons, and only if the request lands within 75 days of the missed date. After that it's an exceptional-circumstances motion, and those rarely land.

$25,000 freezes permits.

The DOB can refuse new permits where twenty-five grand or more in penalties sits unpaid. For a working contractor that's not a fine — it's the pipeline. We watch your balance against the threshold and name the summonses driving it.

Your people get named too.

Construction superintendents and site-safety managers are summonsed personally — their names, their judgments, their licenses. One docket watch covers the company and the crew.

Right now, NYC construction respondents owe $880 million in outstanding hearing penalties. See the 50 most-fined contractors →

What you get

One docket. Every site. Every clock.

The full docket, daily. Every summons naming your company or your supers, across every job site — swept against the city's hearing records each morning.
Hearing calendar with teeth. Every date, ordered by what it costs to miss. Escalating reminders before each one.
Default & reopen clocks. The moment a hearing is missed, the 75-day reopen window starts counting on your dashboard.
The paperwork, prefilled. New-hearing requests, reschedules, appeals, and representative authorizations — official OATH forms filled from your summons details.
Permit-block watch. Your outstanding balance tracked against the DOB's $25,000 threshold, with the exact summonses to clear first.

Built for your caseload

Managed onboarding, priced for your volume.

Contractor dockets aren't one-size: a two-crew GC and a citywide sub carry very different caseloads. We set up your company watch — every name variant the city has ever docketed you under — and price it for your volume of summonses and sites.

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The reputation score

Every company on the docket gets a grade.

We score every respondent 0–100 by what their docket does to the ownerswhose buildings they work: defaults left sitting on property records, unpaid balances against the DOB's $25,000 permit-block line, corrections never certified (each one holds up someone's Certificate of Occupancy), how many job sites carry open money, and whether the docket is still live.

Owners and GCs check it before they hire. Which means the fastest way to protect your bids is to keep your own score clean — and the watch is how you catch a summons before it becomes a default.

See your company's score →

Contractor reputation score78

CleanSevere

+3018 defaulted hearings, unpaid — judgments parked on owners' records
+25Outstanding balance past the $25,000 permit-block line
+13Corrections never certified · summonses in the last 12 months

Example scoring · computed from the city's hearing records

How bad can it get?

Don't end up on this list.

Real companies, straight from the city's hearing records — the largest unpaid balances on the construction docket, updated daily. None of these got here overnight. It happened one unanswered summons at a time: a hearing notice to a job-site trailer, a default, a maximum penalty, and nobody watching the calendar. And this page is public — every owner vetting a bid, every lender, every reporter can pull it up.

#	Respondent	Summonses	Outstanding
1	Ismet Jashari	177	$2,147,187
2	Frandy Jean Baptiste	201	$1,473,125
3	175 West Tremont LLC	112	$1,302,875
4	1131 Hancock St LLC	42	$1,292,130
5	Superb Construction Mgt	238	$1,269,415
6	Edward Andreas Vincent	27	$1,156,250
7	Eisner Chana	84	$1,072,276
8	Josephine T. Higgins	64	$1,022,663

Every balance on this table started as a single summons with a hearing date on it. The watchdog exists so your company's name never ranks here — put your docket under watch or see the full list of 50.

The paperwork desk

The forms that undo the damage, prefilled.

New-hearing request

After a default — inside the 75-day window

The single highest-leverage form on the docket: a granted reopen vacates the maximum penalty.

Reschedule request

Before a hearing you can't make

Moving the date beats missing it — a reschedule costs nothing, a default costs the maximum.

Appeal

Within 30 days of a decision you lost

Pay-first rule applies — we stage the payment proof with the filing, and the extension form if the clock is tight.

Representative authorization

When someone appears for the company or your super

Required with any hired representative — prefilled per respondent, including individuals.

All four are the official OATH forms, filled from the summons details on your docket and staged with exactly where to send them.

Straight answers

What happens if my company misses an OATH hearing?: Missing the hearing is a default: OATH imposes the maximum penalty — often several times the base charge — and it becomes a judgment against the respondent. You can request one new hearing per summons, granted automatically if OATH receives it within 75 days of the missed date.
Can unpaid OATH penalties block my DOB permits?: Yes — the Department of Buildings can refuse to issue new permits where $25,000 or more in penalties is outstanding, with narrow exceptions for corrective work. Unpaid judgments also follow the company as collectable debt.
How do I see every summons naming my company?: Search your company name exactly as it appears on a summons on DailyDog's free contractor lookup — it sweeps the city's hearing records and shows every summons, hearing date, and outstanding balance in your name across all job sites.

Own or manage buildings too?

The same watchdog runs the owner's side — violations, the compliance calendar, and every deadline on your lots.

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