All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 9 2021 // Hartford, Connecticut, insurance and risk management consulting firm InsureGood hired Carrie Taylor as vice president of business development, and she will join the firm’s leadership team.In her new role, Taylor will...
Aug 31 2021 // C3 Risk & Insurance Services in San Diego, Calif. hired four insurance industry veterans to establish new construction and surety divisions. The new team members to the construction and surety divisions are: Paul...
Aug 17 2021 // Beazley Appoints Chubb’s Kocsondy as U.S. Cyber & Tech ChiefSpecialist insurer Beazley has appointed Patricia Kocsondy as head of U.S. Cyber & Tech. Kocsondy, an experienced cyber underwriter and manager,...
Jul 19 2021 // While “greener” buildings are important to reducing global carbon emissions, the buildings offer much more than that. Green buildings bring people together in natural common areas, foster positive impacts of...
Jul 1 2021 // Palomar Holdings Inc. announced a new partnership with PURE Programs to offer owners of high value homes undergoing complex construction projects a new specialized excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance and risk...
Jun 21 2021 // Nearly a decade of continuous construction industry growth was halted in 2020 as the industry battled direct and collateral effects from COVID-19. According to Nationwide’s recent Agent Authority research,...
Jun 21 2021 // It is not the best of times for the construction industry and its insurers. But neither is it the worst of times.The construction industry continues to face labor shortages, rising costs, supply chain woes and lingering...
Jun 15 2021 // The owner of a Revere, Massachusetts, construction company was sentenced on June 10, 2021, on charges of engaging in an under-the-table payroll fraud scheme that defrauded the government of more than $500,000 and insurance...
Jun 8 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety.If you’re an independent agent with construction contractor clients, here’s an article to share with them about accounting best practices. When...
May 25 2021 // A worker fell to his death from a scaffold at a building under construction in Queens, officials said.Diego Lliguicota, 32, fell from a scaffold at 9:30 a.m. Saturday as he was trying to remove a ladder on the sixth floor...
May 21 2021 // The owner of a Florida construction business has been arrested for allegedly concealing payroll information to avoid paying more than $718,000 in workers’ compensation premiums, according to a statement from the...
May 19 2021 // An explosion happened at an Amherst house that was under construction, causing a contractor to suffer burn injuries to his arms, New Hampshire fire investigators said Friday.Firefighters responded to the house near...
May 19 2021 // MEXICO CITY – Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s construction arm Grupo Carso faces scrutiny from accident investigators for the possible role it played in the building of a metro railway line that collapsed this...
May 11 2021 // A construction company owner was arrested in Florida this month for workers’ compensation premium fraud and grand theft for allegedly concealing payroll information to avoid paying more than $88,000 in workers’...
Apr 26 2021 // Skyrocketing lumber prices threaten to thwart the momentum of the U.S. housing market, which for months has been one of the brightest stars of the recovery from the pandemic recession.At the onset of the health crisis,...
Apr 26 2021 // Construction business owners experienced declines in their revenues, project completions, new bids and workforce, as the pandemic took hold in 2020. In fact, 7-in-10 construction business owners were negatively affected by...
Apr 16 2021 // Chubb has appointed Lyndsey Christofer as executive vice president, Construction Industry Practice Leader for its large account segment. In this capacity, she will oversee a team of construction underwriting and service...
Apr 12 2021 // A major Pennsylvania construction contractor was charged Thursday with stealing tens of millions of dollars from its own workers by systematically violating state and federal prevailing wage laws on taxpayer-funded public...
Apr 7 2021 // A Louisiana-based construction and hauling firm and the U.S. Department of Labor in late March reached a settlement in a whistleblower/retaliation case.Labor officials had filed administrative orders against D.G....
Mar 30 2021 // A construction worker was killed when a trench collapsed on him while he was working in a residential development in the Hudson Valley community of Woodbury, New York, police said. The 43-year-old worker was digging in a...