All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2006 // Plaintiffs seeking more than $1 billion in damages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are calling the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet a “Hurricane Highway” that allowed a 20-foot storm surge to inundate much...
Apr 18 2006 // Willis Group Holdings is expanding its construction practice with the appointment of David Grigg as senior vice president and national director for professional liability. Grigg is based in New York City. In this new...
Apr 18 2006 // New York, N.Y.-based Mercator Risk Services, the newly formed, independent wholesale insurance broker, has appointed industry expert John Cleary as senior vice president of its Casualty Construction and Real Estate...
Apr 17 2006 // More than 120 of Florida’s independent agents who attended the March 29 and 30 Florida Independent Insurance Agents Legislative “Fly-In” heard Skip Long, Scott Johnson, Laura Pearce and Kyle Ulrich...
Apr 17 2006 // The PIA Western Alliance will be holding its second Moisture Management Summit in Irvine, Calif. with the goal of writing a public policy based on moisture management standards that have already been developed. The...
Apr 17 2006 // Bob WillifordPeople Barney & Barney LLC, a San Diego-based risk management consulting and insurance brokerage firm, promoted John Niedernhofer and William Peartree to ownership status within the firm.Niedernhofer...
Apr 6 2006 // Court rulings have left state inspectors powerless to enforce safety standards at construction sites like the one where three people died this week in a scaffolding accident, forcing Massachusetts to rely on a voluntary...
Apr 3 2006 // Auto-LiabilityFields v. American Central Insurance Co. (La. App., 2nd Dist., March 8, 2006) Undated named driver exclusion endorsement sufficient to defeat coverage: Lensing was involved in a June 18, 2003, auto accident...
Mar 31 2006 // The Insurance Skills Center will be hosting a Contractors Conference in Fresno, Calif., and in Las Vegas to provide specialized contractors information on how to: size up the construction market; build a construction book;...
Mar 31 2006 // The PIA Western Alliance will be holding its second Moisture Management Summit in Irvine, Calif., with the goal of writing a public policy based on moisture management standards that have already been developed. The...
Mar 28 2006 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering a Course of Construction Policy in California and Arizona. Coverage is written on a Homeowners HO-3 Form, which includes a C.O.C. endorsement. The...
Mar 28 2006 // Tips about how to obtain wind insurance incentives have been issued by the Florida Department of Financial Services on the department’s website. According to DFS, Floridians may be entitled to discounts on insurance...
Mar 20 2006 // When building or remodeling a house, homeowners often will turn to their construction manager to assist in overseeing building, recommending and selecting bidders, and securing permits. The construction manager will likely...
Mar 7 2006 // A controversial settlement between Milwaukee’s Miller Park stadium district and a construction contractor has left excessive and unjustified legal bills, according to insurance companies left on the hook for those...
Mar 7 2006 // San Diego-based commercial insurance brokerage firm Cavignac & Associates recently held the first of two sessions of its new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 10-Hour Construction Safety Training...
Mar 6 2006 // When building or remodeling a house, homeowners often will turn to their construction manager to assist in overseeing building, recommending and selecting bidders, and securing permits. The construction manager will likely...
Feb 28 2006 // Cameras set up along specific Illinois highway construction zones will allow the Illinois State Police to track speeders and subsequently send violaters a ticket in the mail along with their photograph as proof.In March...
Feb 13 2006 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan reported that for the first time in the history of the Illinois Attorney General’s Top 10 Consumer Complaint list, complaints related to gasoline pricing topped the list of...
Feb 6 2006 // Is the valuation revolution coming to farm insurance?For several years now, residential and commercial property insurance specialists have been employing new automated systems to refine their calculations of the value of...
Feb 5 2006 // Harvesting value: revaluation revolution comes to farm linesBringing changes to valuations has been complicated because farm are such unique collections of structures Is the valuation revolution coming to farm...