All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 14 2008 // Aon Corp, a provider of global risk management services, today announced that Mary Ann Krautheim has joined Aon Construction Services Group as its first National Client Strategy officer. Based in Minneapolis, Krautheim is...
Jan 13 2008 // For contractor Paige Smith of Neuse Tile Service Inc. in Youngsville, N.C., the increase in cold calls she is receiving from insurance agents is a sure sign of the industry’s softening market. A couple times a month...
Jan 13 2008 // As the financial and housing markets continue to work their way through the fallout of the mortgage lending meltdown, the construction sector faces its share of woes. But as is typically the case, specific conditions —...
Jan 10 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) will hold a regional workplace safety workshop in Corpus Christi to address safety concerns in the construction and transportation...
Dec 21 2007 // A New Hampshire judge has approved a hazardous waste violation settlement that will see a Pembroke construction company pay a $157,500 fine. The state alleged Venture Construction, Inc., transported and stored hazardous...
Dec 18 2007 // ABD Insurance and Financial Services, a Division of Wells Fargo Insurance Services, has added Andrej “Andy” Stoelting as a producer/broker in the company’s Redwood City, Calif., headquarters. Formerly an...
Dec 18 2007 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Marine announced today that it has entered into an agreement with National Equipment Register (NER) to help RLI clients reduce the expense associated with construction equipment theft.RLI...
Dec 17 2007 // IBA West Service Corp. and AmWINS Access have teamed to offer a specialty workers’ compensation program for IBA West member brokers and agents and their construction, trucking and security guard clients.Coverage is...
Dec 14 2007 // Until a deadly blaze in a condemned ground zero skyscraper this summer spurred scrutiny of inspection records, the New York fire department didn’t know that some construction and demolition sites existed. Many were...
Dec 2 2007 // New York City fire department officials and construction contractors have formed a joint advisory council to lay down stringent safety rules for job sites, aimed at forestalling such mishaps as the fire that killed two...
Dec 2 2007 // General contractors in Georgia are no longer able to use subcontractors as a broad shield against bodily injury and property damage claims at construction sites under a new law.The new statute went into effect July 1. The...
Nov 29 2007 // Aon Corp. announced that Michael R. Szot, Jim Reilly, Gary L. Stevens and Micah Chen have joined Aon Construction Services Group, all to be based in Los Angeles.“These individuals instantly enhance our profile within...
Nov 21 2007 // While State Senate confirmation is required, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced the following reappointments and appointments to the Construction Industry Licensing Board:·Carl Engelmeier, 57, of Apopka, president, E.H....
Nov 21 2007 // New York City fire department officials and construction contractors have formed a joint advisory council to lay down stringent safety rules for job sites, aimed at forestalling such mishaps as the fire that killed two...
Nov 18 2007 // The use of the exterior insulation finishing system (EIFS), also referred to as “synthetic stucco,” in construction is nothing new to commercial or residential builders.EIFS, a multi-layered exterior structure...
Nov 18 2007 // Construction is an inherently dangerous activity. Hundreds if not millions of dollars are at stake with each project, and if something goes wrong, contractors often look to their insurance to cover claims. When that...
Nov 16 2007 // San Diego County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh has ordered an employee of a San Diego construction company to pay $13,667 in restitution to the California State Compensation Insurance Fund in a workers’...
Nov 14 2007 // Lockton International announced the appointment of Duncan Urquhart as Managing Director for their International Construction team. He will be based in the London office and joins Lockton from Oxygen, where he was Head of...
Nov 14 2007 // The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Region III, which encompasses Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, announced that Austin, Texas-based McComb Construction Company donated $4,000 toward the establishment of a...
Nov 7 2007 // The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sued world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, alleging serious design flaws in the Stata Center, a building widely celebrated for its unconventional walls and radical angles.The...