All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2013 // About $837 million has been spent on construction in Joplin since the May 2011 tornado, including starts on more than 1,100 new homes, according to city building permit data.The figures include construction done throughout...
Aug 26 2013 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has expanded to a new 20,000-square-foot office space in Northern California and launched its construction risk practice. The new practice will offer insurance, surety bonding...
Aug 23 2013 // Coventry Risk Specialty, an MGA focused on the construction industry, has launched a new Builders Reporting Policy (BRP) product for the construction industry. Coventry is the countrywide exclusive underwriter and will...
Aug 16 2013 // Markel Ventures Inc. and Eagle Construction of VA LLC announced that Markel has acquired Eagle Construction and its affiliated entities. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Markel Ventures is a Markel Corp....
Aug 16 2013 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance — the recently launched commercial P/C insurance unit of Berkshire Hathaway — announced on Thursday the appointments of Leo Carroll as senior vice president, healthcare...
Aug 12 2013 // Georgia’s high court has handed contractors and their clients a victory by expanding the scope of a contractor’s general liability policy so that it includes damage due to a contractor’s faulty...
Aug 7 2013 // A Florida man who worked for a now-defunct southern New Jersey construction company has admitted his role in a scheme in which he purposely damaged homes he claimed had been hit by hail. New Jersey authorities announced...
Jul 26 2013 // Ironshore Inc. has created a new management team to serve as industry practice leaders. These leaders will be for business lines that the company says increasingly demand new products that address distinct...
Jul 22 2013 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Chris Warren in the firm’s West Los Angeles office as vice president of its construction practice. Warren more than 10 years of experience providing insurance and...
Jul 17 2013 // Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Commercial Insurance strategic business unit has appointed Douglas Cauti as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer of its construction practice. Douglas Cauti Cauti will lead...
Jul 9 2013 // ACE USA has launched new capabilities specifically designed for healthcare industry construction projects through ESIS, Inc., a risk management services company owned by the ACE Group.The new offerings include...
Jun 27 2013 // Four workers were hurt, three critically, after a barn frame collapsed on June 22 at an $80 million Texas A&M University equestrian complex that’s under construction.The collapse happened on university property...
Jun 20 2013 // When the big twister hit, Maylene Sorrels huddled with her students in the halls of Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla.Cowering, she covered the student’s heads. Then Sorrels, a teacher’s aide, tried...
Jun 17 2013 // The solar construction industry has been extremely hot in recent years. Perhaps, too hot.The sector’s rapid growth has led to an oversupply of solar panels, which has turned up the heat on manufacturers to lower...
Jun 12 2013 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has introduced a new contractors pollution liability (CPL) owner-controlled insurance program (OCIP) for the healthcare industry. This new policy can be used to...
Jun 11 2013 // The large amount of rebar and concrete on the construction site at Hatton High is not there by accident.Instead, it represents a change in how schools are constructed in Alabama. Three years after eight students died when...
May 31 2013 // Police say a construction worker at a site in College Station, Texas has died after being pinned to the ground by two 1,500-pound, 20-feet-long shoring panels.Police say 49-year-old Armando Gonzalez of Bryan died Wednesday...
May 31 2013 // HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. has expanded into builder’s risk insurance with the launch of its new Construction Property Risks Division. The new division will be based in New York and be led by Francis P. Tricamo,...
May 31 2013 // Cross Insurance, an insurance brokerage and subsidiary of Bangor, Maine-based Cross Financial Corp., announced the hiring of Mike Guarino as a producer in the firm’s Manchester, N.H. office. Guarino has been in the...
May 20 2013 // Travelers has introduced Construction Pak – Builders’ Risk, an enhanced product to help construction projects of all sizes and types stay on schedule. From standard construction to complex undertakings such as...