All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 8 2025 // Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced that her office has filed felony charges against James G. Bennett, operating as Bath Planet, for allegedly defrauding consumers by accepting payments for bathroom...
Nov 25 2025 // The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries cited 41 people for unregistered contracting, or for unlicensed plumbing and electrical work during inspections at nearly 350 construction sites over the course of...
Nov 25 2025 // The employer of a construction worker who was killed in a trench collapse on Cape Cod last week and the town that hired the firm for the sewer project are in a legal dispute that began before the fatal accident.In a court...
Nov 6 2025 // The Iowa Insurance Division announced the arrest of a contractor for insurance fraud.Shawn Heuss, age 46, of Johnston, was arrested on Thursday, October 30, 2025, and charged with one count of Fraudulent Submission (Class...
Oct 14 2025 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Nathan Houdek issued a final decision to impose civil forfeitures of $6,000 after finding that a contractor was acting as a public adjuster under Wisconsin law, which subjected him to the...
Oct 7 2025 // Hill Country Underwriters, a managing general underwriter (MGU) providing casualty insurance for artisan contractors, launches today with a General Liability and Inland Marine product for artisan trade contractors in...
Sep 22 2025 // The commercial property insurance market is navigating a constantly evolving landscape in 2025, in which rising costs, labor shortages, and the ever-present threat of business interruption are reshaping how claims are...
Sep 15 2025 // A federal court ordered a Northern California-based roofing contractor to pay $1.9 million in back wages and damages to 158 workers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation reportedly found the employer failed to pay...
Aug 6 2025 // UK businesses are turning to the self-employed in an effort to rein in costs as they try to navigate Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ £26 billion ($34.5 billion) payroll tax hike.Advertised contract jobs...
Aug 5 2025 // Two California companies agreed to pay $1.75 million for failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in an Air Force contract.Defense contractor Aero Turbine Inc., in Stockton, California, and private equity company...
Jul 3 2025 // On June 20, nearly three weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season, Florida disaster-management officials assembled a group of emergency relief contractors in Tallahassee and asked them to do something they had never done...
Jul 2 2025 // A Maryland woman has been indicted on two counts of felony theft for allegedly stealing funds from a general contractor and from the state’s backup auto insurer.Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said an Anne Arundel...
Jun 16 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $824,276 in back wages and damages for 680 employees of a Las Vegas drywall contractor, which reported denied overtime pay to piece-rate and hourly workers.The department’s Wage...
Jun 16 2025 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined Hillsboro-based Renner Trucking and Excavating Inc. $80,804 for repeatedly violating rules intended to protect workers from trenches caving in.Oregon OSHA issued a...
Jun 11 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $101,690 in back wages and damages owed to 31 employees of a Houston plumbing contractor who paid them a salary but failed to pay an overtime premium for hours over 40 in a...
Jun 3 2025 // Massachusetts is eliminating a series of insurance and other business regulations with a goal of making it easier and less costly to conduct business in the state.According to Gov. Maura Healey, her administration’s...
Jun 2 2025 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined Hillsboro-based Renner Trucking and Excavating Inc. $80,804 for repeatedly violating rules intended to protect workers from trenches caving in.Oregon OSHA issued a...
Jun 2 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety.“We’ve targeted tight turnaround times from submission to approval using Old Republic Surety’s (ORS) FastBond process — the faster, the...
May 28 2025 // A farm labor contractor was fined $1.25 million for operating without a license and failing to provide nearly 5,000 workers with required employment details.The fine was issued by the Washington State Department of Labor...
May 21 2025 // A software company that handles sensitive data for nearly every US federal agency was the victim of a cyber breach earlier this year due to a “major lapse” in security measures, according to documents reviewed...