All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 18 2004 // Soaring construction liability insurance premiums are causing contractors to raise house prices and even leave the business, builders say.Insurance rates for contractors doing commercial construction also have surged, but...
May 14 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect approximately $834,000 in restitution from the principals of an El Cajon-based (San Diego County) construction company. San Diego residents Milton Perry Smith and his wife,...
May 7 2004 // Deaths from falls and accidental electrocution are the two leading causes of construction-related injuries and fatalities according to experts at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America’s (PCI) safety...
May 3 2004 // California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators are seeking additional victims in the case of a West Sacramento insurance agent/broker who sold phony policies to more than two dozen construction firms, bilking them...
May 3 2004 // Attorney General Charlie Crist and Florida Department of Transportation Secretary José Abreu announced the arrest of a Central Florida couple for defrauding the state out of more than $1.5 million in road construction and...
Apr 19 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Doze Construction Co. Inc. of Gun Barrel City, Texas pleaded guilty in a Travis County District Court to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The company was...
Apr 14 2004 // Accidents in highway construction zones kill more than 1,000 people each year, and most of them are drivers, according to Federal Highway Administrator Mary Peters.“We’re asking drivers to remember that for...
Apr 8 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Doze Construction Co. Inc. of Gun Barrel City, Texas, has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Judge Julie Kocurek of the 390th Travis County...
Apr 5 2004 // In today’s tight market, it’s becoming harder and harder for contractors to secure the bonds they need. Whether they are a small operation starting out, or an established leader—chances are they have found it...
Apr 5 2004 // Two Vancouver, Wash.-area construction companies and a Port Angeles contractor are the first to lose their registration as a result of action taken by the Wash. Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) for failure to...
Mar 18 2004 // California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators are seeking additional victims in the case of a West Sacramento insurance agent/broker who sold phony policies to more than two dozen construction firms, bilking them...
Mar 10 2004 // Two Vancouver, Wash.-area construction companies and a Port Angeles contractor are the first to lose their registration as a result of action taken by the Wash. Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) for failure to...
Mar 8 2004 // Two San Diego County men who owned several Southern California construction companies pleaded guilty to six felony counts, including state income tax evasion, conspiracy to file false tax returns, payroll tax evasion and...
Feb 25 2004 // In recent testimony before The Insurance and Real Estate Committee, the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. said it supports House Bill 5207, which would prohibit owner-controlled insurance programs...
Jan 26 2004 // London-based Allianz Global Risks, a unit of Germany’s Allianz AG, announced that it will act as the lead insurer for the second Orinoco River Bridge Project. At 2,140 kilometers (1285 miles), the Orinoco is South...
Jan 12 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: CEIS Ltd. (Construction Equipment Insurance Services) announced a new “in-house” underwriting and binding facility for cranes and related construction equipment. CEIS provides an all-risks...
Dec 9 2003 // Disasters, both natural and man-made, as well as mold, construction defect and a recent hard market have impacted the U.S. economy and the insurance industry as a whole, according to a leading property/casualty...
Nov 24 2003 // Mullis Newby Hurst LP (www.mnhins.com), a Dallas-base provider of construction surety bonds, announced it has entered into an agreement with financial adviser Kirk G. Quaschnick, to provide services to its construction...
Nov 13 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher has urged current workers’ compensation exemption-holders in the construction industry to take the necessary steps to file for a new exemption by Nov. 30. All...
Oct 20 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: CEIS, Ltd. (Construction Equipment Insurance Services) announced a new “in-house” underwriting and binding facility for cranes and related construction equipment. CEIS provides an all-risks...