All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Nov 16 2008 // Top 100 Agency Profile Ranking: No. 6 Agency Name: Allied North America Headquarters: Jericho, N.Y. Year Founded: 1979 Additional Locations: 16 offices in 11 states adn D.C. with 18 profit centers Specialization:...
Nov 16 2008 // A significant increase in unsold assets represents a substantial hole in the balance sheet for builders of every size. Combine this with rising costs for construction commodities … and it’s not surprising that...
Nov 16 2008 // Recent crane incidents throughout the United States and around the world are attracting increased media attention to craning operations.The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Nov 16 2008 // As society becomes more environmentally conscious, as energy prices continue to soar, and as government laws and regulations mandate it, green building promises to become the rule, rather than the exception, in the...
Nov 7 2008 // It takes a lot of paper to raise a crane in New York City these days. Maintenance records, tests certifying operators, and proof that a safety meeting has been held are among the documents required in the city since two...
Nov 2 2008 // Halloween has come and gone, but modern-day ghost towns continue to haunt the U.S. landscape. After nearly a decade of exponential growth, developers and homebuilders have seen the market for their product —...