All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2012 // Builder Agent Network has launched a product for home building and contractor markets in Texas.The company, which functions as the managing general agency for Builders Insurance Group’s Texas products, will start...
Jan 31 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $450,058 workers’ compensation dividend to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) construction safety group. The dividend was based largely on the safety...
Jan 24 2012 // Mistakes by construction workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar reactor project, described last Friday by the utility’s chief executive as potentially fatal, idled about 1,000 workers temporarily...
Jan 11 2012 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, an independent insurance brokerage headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., hired Victor Fonseca to join its New York office as vice president of construction practice. Fonseca brings over 17...
Jan 9 2012 // Changing demographics and new economic realities are driving more people away from homeownership in the suburbs and into rental properties and apartments in many areas around the country. This surge in rental demand is...
Jan 9 2012 // Henry Ford once said that his customers could order his Model T cars in whatever color the customer wanted, as long as it was black! For many years, the relationship between contractors and their insurance company seemed...
Jan 5 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s report on Windstorm Ulli notes that it is “passing through Scandinavia and is expected to dissipate as it moves over the Baltic Sea today.“A class 2 weather...
Dec 16 2011 // Have you ever wondered how modern-day fire departments began? Or why agents buy E&O coverage? What about when the first business owners policy launched? These are just a few questions that Insurance Journal and Claims...
Dec 16 2011 // Liberty Mutual consolidated its specialty construction operations and appointed James Conroy senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for construction, Liberty Mutual commercial markets.Previously, Conroy was...
Dec 12 2011 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, a red alert was issued for winds in Scotland and the Northern UK by the Met Office. As a result, AIR said “widespread structural damage” was likely; flood...
Dec 9 2011 // Green retrofitting of commercial buildings is outpacing the construction of new green buildings, according to a new report issued this week.The trend could mean that more building owners may believe that bringing their...
Dec 8 2011 // Steven Bushnell, a senior director at Novato Calif., based-Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., has been appointed to the U.S. Green Building Council 2012 board of directors.USGBC on Thursday announced the newly elected...
Dec 8 2011 // Gov. Rick Scott said he is concerned about Florida’s state-backed property insurer providing discounted coverage on new construction projects in high-risk areas.Scott questioned Citizens Property Insurance Corp....
Dec 2 2011 // The role of an agent or broker as a trusted advisor to contractor clients is more important than ever given today’s challenging business environment. One of the many ways you can add value to your client...
Nov 21 2011 // The construction market is showing hints of improvement, if only slightly, according to insurance specialists for this market.The contractor class has been one of the hardest hit by the financial crisis and three years...
Nov 21 2011 // Dallas-based LevelFirst has named Toni Campbell director of Marketing. Campbell will oversee all marketing efforts for the newly formed wholesale property and casualty insurance broker and MGA.LevelFirst also introduced...
Nov 21 2011 // In construction liability insurance, there is a great deal of inconsistency in determining whether faulty workmanship is an occurrence. The answer is all over the map, according to Finley Harckham, a veteran insurance...
Nov 21 2011 // Cincinnati-based Great American Insurance Group’s corporate claims division hired Emmet M. Murphy as vice president responsible for the environmental claims unit.Murphy joins Great American from The Hartford and its...
Nov 21 2011 // The role of an agent or broker as a trusted advisor to contractor clients is more important than ever given today’s challenging business environment. One of the many ways you can add value to your client...
Nov 15 2011 // Willis North America has named Ric Burwell as construction practice leader of northern California.Burwell, who takes over immediately, will be based in San Francisco. Willis, a unit of U.K. insurance firm Willis Group...