All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 27 2009 // A judge has dismissed the state’s lawsuit against contractors involved in the building of the University of Connecticut law school library, saying the state waited too long.Waterbury Superior Court Judge William...
Feb 13 2009 // A federal jury has awarded $50,000 to a North Carolina construction worker who says co-workers hurled racial epithets at him, shot nails toward him and even tried to hang him on a job site.The Asheville Citizen-Times...
Feb 6 2009 // The families of three pediatric cancer patients sued a Florida hospital this week, claiming their children died after contracting fungal infections from renovations being performed at the facility.The lawsuit filed by...
Feb 5 2009 // New York City set more than 40 new rules for the struggling construction industry to make high-risk sites safer and correct problems such as those that led to two deadly crane collapses last year.The Department of...
Jan 28 2009 // Aon Corp. has appointed Mike Szot and George Dale managing directors of Aon’s Construction Services Group’s residential practice in Los Angeles. These senior-level additions have been made in response to the...
Jan 26 2009 // A worker has been killed at a Boston construction site.Boston police said Friday that something heavy fell on the construction worker at the Russia Wharf development site on Congress Street around 10 a.m. The man was taken...
Jan 14 2009 // The nation’s lawyers who deal with insurance issues are developing policy recommendations designed to improve access to insurance coverage, reduce litigation over coverage and mitigate future losses involving natural...
Jan 13 2009 // The family of a 10-year-old girl who died in a 2006 tornado in Rogers is blaming a homebuilder for the girl’s death.In a wrongful death lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court, the family of Jaymi Wendt claims poor...
Jan 11 2009 // Commercial construction insurance brokers from the northeast to the west coast, from Texas all the way to North Carolina, say the market and their business right now are not as bad as might be expected from reading daily...
Jan 7 2009 // A contractor was charged with manslaughter Monday for allegedly using worn, fraying safety straps that broke apart and caused a crane to crash down on a Manhattan neighborhood, killing seven people in one of the...
Jan 7 2009 // Two contractors pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in Texas for offering thousands of dollars in kickbacks to four former Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District school board members and ex-superintendent Arturo...
Jan 5 2009 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year we saw the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft market continued to...
Dec 30 2008 // Union officials representing construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip say several factors have helped improve safety at large project sites, leading to no deaths in the past six months.There were 12 construction deaths...
Dec 21 2008 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year, the industry witnessed the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft...
Dec 15 2008 // The widow of a construction foreman who died in October after he and nine other workers fell from the bridge they were building filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and two companies involved in the project.The...
Dec 12 2008 // A construction worker is in critical condition after concrete fell on him as he worked in a pit at New York City’s Times Square. The worker was taken to Jacobi Hospital after the early accident Thursday morning in...
Dec 11 2008 // Researchers have developed a trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers.The Robotics and...
Dec 9 2008 // Workers’ compensation does not bar a worker injured at a construction site from bringing a tort claim when the worker is an independent contractor, the California Court of Appeal has ruled.According to court...
Nov 30 2008 // Just two years ago the Target Markets Program Administrators Association launched the TMPAA Best Practice designation as a way to encourage members to look for greater efficiencies in the way they currently do business and...
Nov 20 2008 // A major construction contractor could do more to ensure safety at its work sites, including the massive CityCenter project on Nevada’s Las Vegas Strip, according to two new reports.Perini Building Co. sends an...