All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2010 // With the U.S. Green Building Council forecasting growth in the green building market to double between now and 2013, agents and brokers can expect to see increasing client demand for green insurance coverage. Because...
Mar 22 2010 // From wind turbines and fuel cells to vegetative roofs and bamboo surfaces, innovative green construction materials are showing up everywhere. A number of insurers are on board with new insurance products to protect those...
Mar 11 2010 // Property and casualty insurance provider Zurich named Scott Rasor as head of Zurich North America Commercial’s Construction group. Rasor previously served as senior vice president for Construction, specializing in...
Mar 11 2010 // Parker Holt has joined the Austin, Texas, office of independent insurance and financial services brokerage firm Higginbotham & Associates as vice president.He is a property/casualty insurance broker and risk consultant...
Mar 7 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, the Associated Press has...
Mar 7 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
Mar 4 2010 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, a more complete picture of damages is beginning to emerge in the hardest-hit regions of Bio Bio and Maule, four days after the devastating Mw8.8 earthquake struck...
Mar 3 2010 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has filed a lawsuit against Livermore-based Country Builders Inc. after he said the company “cheated workers out of wages,” falsified the company’s payroll...
Feb 25 2010 // A property owner cannot sue an architectural firm for economic losses because of negligent design in a construction defect case, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.Issuing its decision in Flagstaff Affordable Housing...
Feb 24 2010 // Louisiana residents can apply for a state tax deduction for retrofitting their homes, as well as an insurance premium discount for building or retrofitting your home to comply with the Louisiana State Uniform Construction...
Feb 22 2010 // Lexington Insurance Co., a Chartis company, introduces Lex FollowUP, a policy designed for the construction industry to assume the legacy financial risk associated with general liability self-insured retentions (SIR).Lex...
Feb 18 2010 // Travelers Construction Insurance and Travelers Bond & Financial Products have teamed together to offer the Wrap+ Fidelity and Crime coverage to the construction industry. The policy will help protect construction...
Feb 16 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
Feb 11 2010 // Crews were slowly and carefully removing gas cylinders from the site of a deadly explosion at an under-construction power plant in Connecticut, and investigators have interviewed survivors in an effort to determine the...
Feb 7 2010 // Willis Group Holdings extended the contract of its chairman and CEO Joseph J. Plumeri until July 7, 2013. His previous agreement was set to expire on the date of the company’s annual meeting in April 2011.Global...
Jan 24 2010 // $1 MillionAmount raised last year by InsurPac, the political action committee of The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”). It’s the first time the fund – which pays to...
Jan 11 2010 // There has been an upside to the slowdown in construction activity in New York City: Fewer fatal workplace accidents.City officials reported Thursday that there were only three fatalities at New York building sites in 2009....
Jan 10 2010 // Construction insurance specialists say market improvement in 2010 for the construction industry will be slow for most sectors — even so opportunities do exist. Publicly funded construction projects have seen an...
Dec 28 2009 // Nevada transportation officials are investigating claims by a construction worker who says a new highway bridge south of Reno, Nev., is unsafe because he was ordered to use substandard concrete to save money building...
Dec 20 2009 // Beecher Carlson expanded its National Energy practice by appointing Jacklyn Kearns senior vice president.Kearns has 28 years of insurance and risk management experience. She joins Charlie Pierpont in Beecher...