All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2009 // California construction workers are more likely than workers in any other industry statewide to be chronically uninsured, according to a Center on Policy Initiatives study.The California construction industry is expected...
Apr 1 2009 // Insurance Specialty Group LLC (ISG) has partnered with several homebuilding specialist firms and contractors in founding Home Builder Specialty Group (HSG). Available nationwide, Home Builder Specialty Group provides...
Mar 31 2009 // A lawsuit filed by a property owner against an architect alleging professional negligence and seeking purely economic damages is not barred by the economc loss doctrine, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.According to...
Mar 23 2009 // The $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress looms as the largest mountain on the country’s newly changed economic landscape. But despite hope that the stimulus bill will jump-start spending, some insurance...
Mar 23 2009 // Jim Henson’s famous Kermit the Frog said it the best, “it’s not easy being green.” Today’s property owners and insurers understand that while it’s not easy, being green can be...
Mar 20 2009 // California construction workers are more likely than workers in any other industry statewide to be chronically uninsured, according to a study by the Center on Policy Initiatives.Accrding to the report, the California...
Mar 17 2009 // The number of construction jobs in Massachusetts has fallen by about 10,000 positions in the past three months to the lowest level in a decade.The Boston Globe, citing state employment data, reports Monday that there are...
Mar 10 2009 // A measure to improve safety training for construction site employees was endorsed recently by workers and labor leaders, a key state lawmaker, a major contractor and the head of Nevada’s Occupational Safety and...
Mar 9 2009 // The $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress looms as the largest mountain on the country’s newly changed economic landscape. But despite hope that the stimulus bill will jump-start spending, some insurance...
Mar 6 2009 // The head of Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration defended his agency’s efforts to ensure workplace safety during a Senate committee hearing this week that marked the start of a monthlong...
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...