All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 24 2013 // Federal officials have fined two construction companies for safety violations related to this summer’s collapse of a barn frame at Texas A&M University’s $80 million equestrian complex.The Occupational...
Dec 15 2013 // HM Risk, a St. Louis, Mo.-based property/casualty insurance and employee benefits agency, has appointed Melinda Young as senior account executive. Young has more than 20 years of industry experience. As the leader of...
Dec 11 2013 // The XL Group has appointed Lewis Goodearl as Chief Underwriting Officer UK P&C for its Lloyd’s business. He joins XL from Liberty Mutual Insurance where he was Vice President and Wholesale Manager, responsible...
Dec 10 2013 // Drivers would be barred from talking on their cell phones while in a construction zone under a bill being circulated in the Wisconsin state Legislature.Republican Sen. Jerry Petrowski, of Marathon, emailed the bill on Dec....
Dec 3 2013 // Construction of a steel sea wall could start early next year in one of the Jersey shore towns hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy.Bob Mainberger, Mantoloking’s municipal engineer, tells the Asbury Park Press that the...
Dec 3 2013 // Willis Group Holdings announced the placement of “an innovative derivative-based risk transfer solution to protect Roy Hill Holdings Pty Ltd, an emerging global mining, rail and port venture, against the threat of...
Dec 2 2013 // An insurance company is suing the City of Macon, claiming that a corporate jet crashed because the city improperly built the runway it landed on. The Telegraph of Macon reported that Old Republic Insurance Co. is suing the...
Nov 22 2013 // Authorities say a man was killed after an accident at a construction site in south Reno, Nev. According to the Reno Fire Department, the victim was run over by a water truck Tuesday morning. He was pronounced dead at the...
Nov 20 2013 // XL Group has partnered with the American Contractor’s Insurance Group (ACIG), construction industry owned insurance organization, to provide data and analytics for construction clients. The goal is to drive...
Nov 18 2013 // There’s a new norm in the construction market — a new normal when it comes to measuring growth and opportunity.Construction has made a comeback in certain market segments, said Cam Dickinson, senior vice president...
Nov 18 2013 // Construction sites can be a flurry of activity. In addition to focusing on quality construction and completing projects on time, site owners must be sure risk management measures are sufficient. A Controlled Insurance...
Nov 18 2013 // Those that specialize in the contractors and builders segment say a lot has changed in this class since 2007. The recession forced the insurance industry to be flexible and creative when it came to insuring this class,...
Nov 4 2013 // Insuring habitational risks has generated more than its fair share of errors and omissions (E&O) claims. While there are a host of issues, consider these specific ones: valuation, ordinance or law coverage and...
Oct 31 2013 // Swiss Re Ltd., the world’s second-biggest reinsurer, estimates $43 trillion in infrastructure investments related to urbanization in emerging markets through 2030 may translate into $68 billion in premiums for...
Oct 30 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide continued its analysis of Windstorm “Christian,” which smashed into southern Britain Monday, October 28, knocking over trees, flooding lowlands, and disrupting land, sea,...
Oct 29 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide reported that “winter storm ‘Christian’ (known as ‘St. Jude in the United Kingdom) battered the western shores of southern Great Britain early on Monday,...
Oct 22 2013 // The owner of a Northern California construction company and his family members in were convicted of committing workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud.Jeffrey Thranow, 59, owner of Costa Bella Builders was...
Oct 21 2013 // The green insurance market is a good market in every sense of the word. The green building industry is growing. The insurance market for green buildings — both residential and commercial property coverage — is also...
Oct 18 2013 // Growth in the Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, La., areas is expected to help boost employment in Louisiana to an all-time high of more than 2 million jobs in 2015 in spite of plodding national growth, a new report...
Oct 18 2013 // A bill proposed by two state senators would increase fines and jail time for driving violations in construction zones in South Carolina.“It’s common sense to take these extra steps for safety,” Sen. Paul...