The most viewed headlines from our Construction Topic Page over the last year.
Oct 28 2024 // More than 100 people were arrested late last week in storm-ravaged Pinellas County, Florida, charged with looting homes and working as unlicensed contractors, two weeks after Hurricane Milton forced many residents to...
Feb 15 2024 // An Illinois construction contractor – with a history of ignoring federal safety regulations – has again been found exposing workers to deadly fall hazards on a jobsite in Naperville.Inspectors with the U.S. Department...
Aug 16 2024 // A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible.A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has held for...
Jan 25 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. As construction industry professionals gear up for 2024, they are faced with a landscape marked by potential challenges, much like the preceding year....
May 10 2024 // China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s third-largest commercial lender, was accused in a US lawsuit of enabling a massive fraud in the reinsurance industry that left companies with “monumental...
Jul 3 2024 // A Philadelphia jury has awarded $68.5 million in damages to the widow and son of a 38-year-old construction worker who was killed in 2021 in a fall from a fifth-floor balcony at a luxury townhouse site.Siarhei...
Mar 7 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The construction industry faces a new set of challenges each year, and 2024 is no exception. Although 2023 saw a 19.7% surge[1] in spending for nonresidential...
Feb 14 2024 // When Rahm Emanuel ran Chicago and wanted to boast about the health of the city, the then-mayor pointed to the number of construction cranes across the skyline — 60 at the end of 2017.Almost five years after he left...
Apr 18 2024 // LEWISBERRY, Pa. (AP) — Three construction workers on a maintenance project along a Pennsylvania interstate were struck and killed by a truck early Wednesday, state police said.Investigators said a 24-year-old man was...
Jul 1 2024 // Florida Senate Bill 360 became law on April 13, 2023. It significantly reduced the time Florida’s statute of repose and statute of limitations give plaintiffs – including subrogating insurers – to bring civil...
Sep 19 2024 // Families of immigrant construction workers killed when Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after it was hit by the cargo ship Dali plan to challenge the attempt by the ship owner and operator to limit...
Feb 19 2024 // Workers’ compensation insurance is one of the costliest aspects of a construction project that carriers, construction managers, and businesses face. According to Insureon, construction carries the highest...
May 7 2024 // A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around...
May 1 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Water damage stands as a persistent threat to buildings under construction, ranking as one of the leading causes of property loss worldwide.In the U.S. alone,...
Jan 22 2024 // As workplace barriers for minority groups have been challenged, diversity has improved in traditionally male-dominated professions. While it’s encouraging to see the work being done to attract and promote women in...
Feb 8 2024 // The partial collapse of a house foundation was the apparent cause of the death of a 51-year old construction worker in Hanson, Massachusetts on Wednesday morning.The worker, Gerceir Osvaldo DeFaria, was pronounced dead on...
Jun 25 2024 // A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule expanding the cases in which construction contractors are required to pay workers prevailing wages that apply to $200 billion of federally funded...
Apr 9 2024 // Acies MGU, the London-based managing general underwriter and MGA incubator, announced the launch of Phoenix Specialty, a specialist MGA serving the construction sector.Phoenix will be led by managing director Tim James,...
Apr 5 2024 // In the moments before the cargo ship Dali rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and sent it crumbling into the water, a flurry of urgent warnings crackled over radios and enabled police to block traffic from getting on...
Aug 7 2024 // The Department of Labor said it has obtained a federal court order that requires two New Jersey construction companies and their owners and managers to pay $600,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 131 former...