All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 12 2018 // Insurance broker and advisor Willis Towers Watson has named Kelly Kinzer as head of Construction Broking in its Corporate Risk and Broking segment. Kinzer, a 15-year industry veteran, joined Willis Towers Watson in 2015...
Oct 4 2018 // Later this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will recommend a multi-billion-dollar plan to help protect the Texas coast — the Houston area in particular — from hurricanes. When it will become a reality, however,...
Oct 1 2018 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Paladin Cyber has named Josh Riley head of insurance.He will lead efforts to develop solutions that combine risk management services with risk transfer to help clients manage complex...
Sep 28 2018 // A second beam in San Francisco’s celebrated new $2 billion transit terminal shows signs of cracking, an official said Wednesday, a day after a crack in a nearby support beam shut down the building that opened just...
Sep 27 2018 // San Francisco’s financial district, usually jammed with traffic during Salesforce.com Inc.’s annual Dreamforce conference, has been thrown into chaos after a new transportation terminal, named for the software...
Sep 26 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited L.L.E. Construction LLC for exposing employees to fall and other hazards at a construction worksite in Bridgeport, Conn....
Sep 26 2018 // PORTLAND, Ore. — Jimmy Sullivan prepared for his job as a bricklayer the same way every morning for years: injecting a shot of heroin before leaving his car.The first time he overdosed on the job, in 2013 at a Virginia...
Sep 21 2018 // Starr Insurance Companies has introduced Starr CIP Enterprise, a monoline general liability construction wrap-up insurance policy. The new product is designed for property owners and contractors who need tailored primary...
Sep 21 2018 // XL Catlin’s North America Construction insurance business has appointed Ann Marie Snyder, senior underwriter, to lead its Construction Excess Casualty business in its Southeast region.Snyder joined XL Catlin in 2012...
Sep 18 2018 // Insurer Zurich North America has tapped Karen Reutter to lead its Construction unit.Reutter, who recently led the construction practice of a major insurance broker, also worked in Zurich’s construction business from...
Sep 13 2018 // Woodruff Sawyer has named Matthew Parsons vice president and account executive in the firm’s San Francisco, Calif. construction practice. Parsons specializes in risk management and insurance coverage for mid-size and...
Sep 5 2018 // A replacement bridge under construction at the second-busiest port in the U.S. isn’t just a crucial route for cargo trucks and Southern California commuters – it’s a concrete-and-steel science experiment for...
Sep 3 2018 // If you live in a city or nearby one and see new construction projects popping up at a rapid rate, you’re not alone. Cities throughout the United States are experiencing a boom in construction. Optimism is soaring to...
Sep 3 2018 // If residential property owners don’t confirm proper insurance coverage and carefully consider labor laws when hiring contractors, they could be in for some costly litigation, according to two speakers at a July...
Aug 31 2018 // Two construction workers fell to their deaths when scaffolding collapsed as they were pouring concrete on the seventh floor of a 16-story hotel under construction near Disney World early Wednesday, Orange County...
Aug 29 2018 // Construction crews have already put up the frame on Cheri Sharp’s new house, but she still questions whether rebuilding was the right choice after California’s most destructive wildfire took her old home in...
Aug 29 2018 // The Kushner family real estate company was fined $210,000 by New York City regulators on Monday following an Associated Press investigation earlier this year that showed it routinely filed false documents with the city...
Aug 20 2018 // CRV Precast Construction LLC (CRV) and six of its employees have been indicted for misclassifying workers as lesser-skilled, underpaying them and falsifying information about payroll and employees, including a worker who...
Aug 14 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added attorney Jeremy Glassford to the firm’s Birmingham-based National Energy Construction practice as a senior client executive, reporting to EPIC Managing Principal...
Aug 13 2018 // A company is paying less than half the fine workplace safety officials assessed for a North Carolina construction accident that killed three workers and badly injured a fourth.News organizations reported the deadly 2015...