All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2016 // Aspen Insurance, the insurance segment of Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., has announced the appointment of Erik Armellino as international head of Onshore Energy & Construction.Armellino has more than 20...
May 27 2016 // Two insurers, Travelers and Novae, have joined the Construction Consortium at Lloyd’s to offer greatly increased underwriting capacity for the largest construction risks in the world across all major onshore...
May 23 2016 // XL Catlin announced the strengthening of its insurance claims team with the appointment of Oliver Newick to the position of global practice leader for Energy, Property & Construction Claims.Newick joins XL Catlin from...
May 22 2016 // The owner of a construction company in Naples, Fla., was arrested this month for an alleged workers’ comp scheme, according to an announcement from Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater.Raimundo...
May 16 2016 // MarketScout, an electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has hired construction industry underwriting veteran, Rhonda Lohmar.Lohmar joins the construction practice with more than 20...
May 13 2016 // The proposal boiled down to just three paragraphs in the Federal Register: Would it be a good idea, the Federal Emergency Management Agency wondered, if Washington gave states a financial incentive to pass building codes,...
May 11 2016 // Construction is underway at the first of 20 Tulsa, Okla.-area schools that will receive new classroom or library additions to double as storm shelters.The Tulsa World reported that a $415 million bond package that Tulsa...
May 4 2016 // An owner of a construction company in Orlando, Florida. is being charged with workers’ compensation premium fraud and engaging in an organized scheme to defraud, according to a statement from the Florida Department...
May 3 2016 // Police in Sioux Falls, S.D., are looking for the vandal who damaged construction equipment to the tune of $400,000. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says the vandal was able to turn on a backhoe and tipped over a pickup truck,...
May 3 2016 // Propel Insurance has named Michael McCormick a sales executive in the firm’s construction practice. McCormick will be working out of Propel’s Seattle, Wash. location. His prior experience includes sales at...
May 2 2016 // Several weeks ago I released an article questioning the need for the “primary and noncontributory” (PNC) requirement found in most construction contracts. I followed that article with a piece stating that the...
Apr 18 2016 // World leaders from the Vatican to Washington offered support to Ecuador as casualties mounted following one of the strongest earthquakes to strike the South American country in decades.The number of dead has climbed to at...
Apr 7 2016 // Federal officials are investigating two companies after a construction worker was killed and three others were injured in suburban Chicago.The accident happened early on April 5 when a 40-ton steel bridge beam fell on the...
Apr 4 2016 // Novae Group plc, the specialist listed Lloyd’s insurer, announced that Steve Cross has joined as unit head – construction. He is based in London and reports to Stuart Heath, divisional head of property.Cross...
Mar 31 2016 // A Portland, Ore.-based electricity provider that fired the contractor building its natural gas plant in Boardman is suing the backers of a bond guaranteeing construction.The East Oregonian reported Portland General...
Mar 29 2016 // Upper tier contractors seek to avoid, through the use of various transfer mechanisms, the financial costs that can result from bodily injury or property damage to a third party caused or contributed to by other parties...
Mar 25 2016 // Capping a decades-long effort, U.S. workplace regulators on Thursday announced a final rule to boost protections against occupational exposure to crystalline silica, a carcinogenic dust ubiquitous in construction,...
Mar 17 2016 // Marsh announced that Rob McDonough is joining the broker to lead its Construction & Surety Practice in the Northeast. In this role, McDonough will be responsible for overseeing Marsh’s risk advisory and...
Mar 7 2016 // The owner of a Sacramento, Calif. construction company has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and workers’ comp insurance fraud.The Sacramento Bee reported that 47-year-old William Alan Huffman entered his plea last week...
Mar 3 2016 // Marsh announced with immediate effect the appointment of Gary Reeve as head of First Party Claims for its UK Specialties division. Reeve will report to Ian Martin, head of Claims for UK & Ireland.Reeve will act as a...