All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2016 // Chicago police are asking people who’ve had construction equipment stolen in recent months to report to a West Side district station to identify items allegedly found in a man’s home.Police say investigators...
Jul 15 2016 // A construction company convicted in the death of a worker in a New York trench collapse has been sentenced to fund a series of worker safety public service announcements.But an attorney for Harco Construction LLC told a...
Jul 11 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Because the reconstruction cost to rebuild a home is generally higher than the original cost to build that same home, the topic often leads to difficult conversations...
Jul 8 2016 // Officials say a construction worker has died after being electrocuted while working at a site on the campus of Shepherd University.Shepherd University officials said in a news release that the man was killed on campus on...
Jul 6 2016 // State data shows a total of 67 people have been killed in Utah construction zone crashes in the last five years.The transportation department data also shows 288 people were seriously injured over the same period, the...
Jun 30 2016 // Police said a worker’s hard hat likely saved his life after he was hit by a falling steel beam at a suburban Syracuse, New York construction site.Officials told The Post-Standard of Syracuse that officers responded...
Jun 23 2016 // Specialist Lloyd’s insurer Neon, formerly known as Marketform, has appointed Mireille Dolonen as Marine & Offshore Construction underwriter.With over 20 years of experience in the Marine & Offshore...
Jun 20 2016 // Amid ups and downs, the construction market has seen steady growth over the past four years, and now construction insurance specialists believe the market is set to finally start to heat up.The intense competition has...
Jun 20 2016 // The construction risk is one of the toughest categories of businesses to insure. Insurance professionals are vulnerable from the first point of sale, according to Laurie Infantino, president of the Insurance Community...
Jun 20 2016 // As contractors’ professional liability insurance products continue to develop and evolve in the marketplace, many contractors aren’t aware of a new “first-party” coverage that has become available...
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...