All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2022 // A Hartsville, Ohio contractor has been cited for the sixth time since 2018 for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards on two separate Ohio job sites.Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Feb 22 2022 // Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without safety harnesses,...
Feb 22 2022 // San Francisco, California-based Foresight, a workers’ compensation insurtech focused on the middle market, announced the expansion to include four new class codes and 23 incidental adjacencies to serve more customers...
Feb 21 2022 // Construction defect claims and cases are scenarios wherein physical loss or damage is claimed to be related to defective building elements that will require repair or replacement.Typical defect claims and cases will...
Feb 18 2022 // This edition of International People Moves includes appointments at AXA XL, International General Insurance Holdings and MGA Aqueous Underwriting.A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL to Promote De Rosa to Head...
Feb 2 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, Chubb and Marsh.A summary of these new hires follows here. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Promotes 2 in Engineering &...
Jan 21 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Generali Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C), Gallagher Re and Chubb.A summary of these new hires follows here. Muñiz Named GC&C’s Head...
Jan 18 2022 // Zurich North America announced the following changes: Jason Meador, currently head of Captives at Zurich North America, has been appointed to lead the Rural Community Insurance Services crop insurance business following...
Jan 3 2022 // The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming years as climate change warms the planet – sucking the moisture out of...
Dec 20 2021 // The global construction industry’s risk landscape will be transformed by radical changes in design, materials and processes as the industry enters a sustained period of strong growth.The post-Covid-19 growth will be...
Dec 13 2021 // Spanish insurer Mapfre on Friday signed a contract to make a $983.8 million contingency pay-out to Colombia’s Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) over issues with the construction of the massive Hidroituango dam.The...
Dec 8 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Willis Towers Watson, Chubb and Mosaic Insurance.A summary of these appointments follows here. WTW Hires AIG’s Dasan for Construction and Natural...
Dec 3 2021 // A federal judge in Miami sentenced four men to at least two years in prison each for a scheme that sold worthless construction bonds for major building projects in 2015.Working under the name of Hampton Investment Fund,...
Dec 2 2021 // The global construction industry’s risk landscape will be transformed by radical changes in design, materials and processes as the industry enters a sustained period of strong growth.The post-Covid-19 growth will be...
Nov 30 2021 // Applied Specialty Underwriters has launched a new infrastructure and construction practice and named Christopher Day as president. Additionally, John Schlosser has been named to lead the infrastructure underwriting...
Nov 17 2021 // A Miami lawsuit charges that a luxury condominium tower built just a few feet away from Champlain Towers South caused structural damage to the already ailing building in Surfside, leading to the collapse that killed 98...
Nov 17 2021 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners LLC (BKS Partners) entered into an agreement to acquire all the outstanding equity interests of Construction Risk Partners LLC (CRP). The transaction is expected to close on or around...
Nov 4 2021 // The owner of a now-defunct Peabody, Massachusetts, construction company pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud the IRS of payroll taxes and to defraud his workers’ compensation insurance carrier by...
Oct 18 2021 // By L.S. HowardClimate change and the race to net zero greenhouse gas emissions (net zero) are arguably the greatest challenges that face the construction industry — but will drive new opportunities, according to a...
Oct 15 2021 // For the sixth time in seven years, a federal workplace inspection has found a Roselle, Illinois, construction contractor putting workers at risk of serious injury or death by defying federal requirements to ensure the use...