All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 21 2007 // Investigators with the California Economic and Employment Enforcement Coalition (EEEC) recently targeted businesses in the construction industry who were operating illegally, to root out those companies that are avoiding...
Jun 15 2007 // Aon Construction Services Group has hired Lisa K. Crail as director, surety operations. In this role, Crail will be responsible for improving efficiency and reducing transaction costs related to surety and client...
Jun 13 2007 // The number of workplace deaths and accidents is on the rise as construction continues its boom in King County, Wash., according to state statistics.The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that accidents and deaths on the...
Jun 8 2007 // Business associations and groups representing New York’s agriculture sector and construction industry have again urged Governor Eliot Spitzer and state legislators to reform New York’s so-called “scaffold...
Jun 4 2007 // Managing catastrophe risk is one of the biggest challenges facing any company’s risk manager. For multinational companies, the challenge of managing catastrophe risk is especially daunting. In the United States, risk...
Jun 1 2007 // Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers announced plans to build high-rises in New Orleans.But 20 months after the storm, most have...
May 15 2007 // Grants to help with post-Katrina revitalization projects in 15 coastal Mississippi communities totaling more than $97.2 million will help fund projects such as new fire stations in Bay St. Louis, Moss Point, Picayune,...
May 15 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company will return a $1,156,031 dividend to the Texas Construction Association (TCA) purchasing group, the workers’ comp insurer announced. The dividend was based largely on the group’s...
May 7 2007 // Concrete houses sprouting up in southern Alabama, Mississippi and elsewhere in the Gulf Coast region are more than just fortified structures that will protect their owners from up to 250 mph winds and 36 foot storm surges...
May 2 2007 // Burns & Wilcox announced it has gained access to a personal lines course of construction product in several markets.The course of construction products can cover ground up construction, renovations, remodels, mid-term...
Apr 19 2007 // The Argo Insurance Group, a San Francisco Bay Area commercial insurance brokerage, will be hosting a series of seminars on planning, building and protecting “green” buildings. For the first seminar in this...
Apr 10 2007 // New York-based C.V. Starr & Co. has created a facility to underwrite project specific liability coverage in the residential construction business. The facility will provide coverage excess of a minimum retention of...
Apr 9 2007 // Not all offshore platforms are created equal, which is why one platform will survive a storm unscathed while another nearby is completely obliterated. In order to appropriately underwrite offshore platform risk,...
Mar 23 2007 // The insurer behind the performance bond for part of the troubled Interstate-84 construction in Connecticut will pay $17.5 million to settle claims involving installation of defective drains, according to an agreement...
Mar 12 2007 // The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season came and went with barely a blip — despite initial projections by some that there would be two to five major hurricanes that year.How could insurance industry predictions be so...
Mar 5 2007 // An insurer has settled a lawsuit over the death of an ironworker during construction of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.The city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority had a policy with National...
Mar 5 2007 // Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., recently announced that his office has arrested an individual suspected of defrauding numerous homeowners in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Charles Parish who were trying to repair their...
Mar 2 2007 // Aon Construction Services Group has hired Richard S. Church as director, Loss Control, in Aon’s Irvine, Calif., office to provide loss control services to construction clients throughout California and the...
Feb 26 2007 // The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season came and went with barely a blip — despite initial projections by some that there would be two to five major hurricanes that year.How could insurance industry predictions be so...
Feb 25 2007 // The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season came and went with barely a blip — despite initial projections by some that there would be two to five major hurricanes that year.How could insurance industry predictions be so...