All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 23 2012 // The Associated General Contractors of California (AGC-CA) and Zurich have collaborated to provide insurance services for its members. Under the agreement, Zurich in North America will provide AGC-CA members with insurance...
Apr 23 2012 // In one of the New Orleans neighborhoods hit hardest by flooding in Hurricane Katrina‘s aftermath, developers have built a prototype house that’s aimed at providing a quick housing solution for areas blown away...
Mar 21 2012 // Two veteran insurance agents have joined forces to create a new Atlanta-based brokerage operation focused on insurance, benefits and surety products for the construction and real estate industries.Parker Hix and Martin H....
Mar 21 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has issued a bulletin analyzing the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck southwestern Mexico yesterday.Dr. Tao Lai, Principal Engineer at AIR Worldwide, explained that the...
Mar 19 2012 // This article is part of our Hot Insurance Markets for 2012 special feature.Green homes accounted for 17 percent of the overall residential construction market in 2011. And the trend of going green isn’t expected to...
Mar 12 2012 // XL Group plc’s North America Construction is establishing a west coast underwriting operation in San Francisco, Calif. XL is setting up its west coast presence with Michael Simone, currently executive underwriter of...
Mar 9 2012 // Concord, Calif.-based Jenkins Insurance Group named Peter French vice president in its construction and real estate practice.French’s primary focus will encompass commercial, civil and residential construction, as...
Mar 9 2012 // Independent global broker BMS Group announced that it has launched a new global construction initiative, to be headed by Gavin Madell, who has over twenty years’ experience in the field.BMS said the new team...
Feb 23 2012 // Willis North America, a unit of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, appointed Sean McGroarty as New York-based national surety leader of Willis North America construction practice.Previously, McGroarty served as...
Feb 14 2012 // The marine insurance unit of XL Group has unveiled Contractor’s Equipment Coverage Solutions, a package designed to protect the equipment of general building, infrastructure and specialty contractors.“Whether...
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...