All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2019 // Just hours before a pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people at a Miami university, engineers confirmed that cracks in the concrete structure “increased in length daily,” according to meeting records...
May 8 2019 // Insurers will pay up to $42 million to surviving victims of a 2018 Florida bridge collapse and the families of those killed, under a deal announced Friday between the now-bankrupt construction company that built the...
Apr 29 2019 // The crane collapse in the heart of Seattle’s tech hub Saturday ended four lives, cast a pall on the city’s rapid expansion and may lead to tens in millions of dollars of costs for a building that Alphabet...
Apr 24 2019 // Aon plc announced it has combined its Construction & Engineering and Inland Marine teams into a single, dedicated global unit within its Reinsurance Solutions business.The new Global Construction & Inland Marine...
Apr 16 2019 // A Massachusetts construction company and its owner will pay $123,430 in restitution and penalties to settle allegations that it violated Massachusetts wage and hour laws, Attorney General Maura Healey announced.The...
Apr 15 2019 // A worker was crushed to death Saturday when a crane counterweight fell on him at a lower Manhattan construction site, the third time in less than a week that a New York City construction worker was killed on the...
Apr 3 2019 // What’s coming up for your construction clients? The 6th annual National Safety Stand-Down takes place May 6-10, 2019. First initiated by OSHA in 2014, the week encourages construction companies of all sizes to...
Apr 1 2019 // The federal flood insurance program has a knack for inspiring ideas from reformers across the political spectrum on how to improve government.If some of today’s reformers get their way, flood insurance will become a...
Mar 21 2019 // The federal flood insurance program has a knack for inspiring ideas from reformers across the political spectrum on how to improve government.If some of today’s reformers get their way, flood insurance will become a...
Mar 20 2019 // After only a year into his job as CEO and president of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, Roy Wright is setting the place on fire.The IBHS conducted a demonstration in early March simulating an active...
Mar 18 2019 // Nashville-based auto insurer The General has appointed veteran insurance executive Tony DeSantis to president and CEO, joining Chief Operating Officer Steve Tjugum as the company’s top leaders. Elicia Azali has been...
Mar 18 2019 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a statute of repose barring many construction-related personal injury claims after a time limit of six years also applies to claims involving diseases with extended...
Mar 12 2019 // An Iowa safety regulator is blaming a company for not adequately training a worker who was killed in a Marshalltown construction accident. The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing to fine Bridge...
Mar 8 2019 // Phillip Hawley, president of Hawley & Associates in Bellevue, Wash., understands the power of referrals in the nonprofit insurance world. His entire agency’s book of business took root with nonprofit referrals...
Mar 6 2019 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a statute of repose barring many construction-related personal injury claims after a time limit of six years also applies to claims involving diseases with extended...
Mar 4 2019 // The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office says one of three workers injured at an MIT building construction site has died.The Cambridge Fire Department tweeted Thursday that temporary support beams fell on the...
Feb 28 2019 // School officials say a subcontractor fell at a new school construction site in Louisiana and later died. News outlets report that the subcontractor fell around 14 feet while working at the Bullion Primary School...
Feb 15 2019 // Police in Long Island, N.Y., say a construction worker has his legs severed below the knee when a steel plate knocked him into a hole and landed on him. Officials say the unidentified 39-year-old man was working to install...
Feb 8 2019 // Authorities say one person has been critically hurt and two others suffered lesser injuries in a scaffolding and construction elevator accident in a North Texas business district.Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman Mike...
Feb 6 2019 // Officials say a worker doing construction on central Florida’s massive highway expansion project was killed after being struck by a drainage pipe. Orange County Fire Rescue tweeted Monday that the worker was struck...