All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 16 2022 // The mother of a man killed on a Baltimore construction site who was barred by Maryland’s workers’ compensation law from suing the contractor hired by the city has lost a bid to hold the city and subcontractor...
Aug 15 2022 // A Baton Rouge, Louisiana roofing contractor who ignored federal safety inspectors’ February 2022 warnings that not complying with required fall protection standards exposed their workers to serious dangers now faces...
Aug 4 2022 // A New Jersey construction company and its principal have been charged with willfully violating federal workplace safety regulations at a Poughkeepsie, New York construction site where a wall collapsed, killing a worker in...
Aug 4 2022 // Eight Florida men have been charged with contracting without a license and failing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance, after a sting operation led by state and local authorities. The Manatee County...
Aug 2 2022 // A Baton Rouge, Louisiana roofing contractor – who ignored federal safety inspectors’ February 2022 warnings that not complying with required fall protection standards exposed their workers to serious dangers –...
Aug 1 2022 // Despite the potentially deadly consequences of its actions, an Appleton, Wisconsin contractor allowed three roofers to work at heights up to 18 feet without anchoring their fall protection, making it useless in preventing...
Jun 20 2022 // No other industry has weathered a global pandemic, economic changes, and a decade-long shortage of skilled labor better than the construction industry. Contractors have shown they are a hardy bunch, adapting to a hard...
Jun 13 2022 // Skyward Specialty Launches Renewable Energy Contractor CoverageSkyward Specialty Insurance Group is now offering a renewable energy contractors coverage targeting contractors specializing in wind and solar energy...
Jun 1 2022 // A group of contractors wasted little time in challenging the constitutionality of a law approved at the Florida Legislature’s special session last week, one the restoration companies argue singles them out and...
May 27 2022 // Ditch diggers who accepted work assignments online and used their own spades and shovels to do the work cannot be classified as independent contractors by a company that contracted with Time Warner Cable to install...
May 24 2022 // A Roselle, Illinois contractor’s history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations and penalties – and a willingness to expose its workers to serious injuries or worse – continues, as...
May 16 2022 // The North Fork of the White River in southern Missouri is a nationally known fly-fishing destination, teeming with brown and rainbow trout. The stream is fed from underground springs in the Ozark Mountains, keeping its...
May 3 2022 // The North Fork of the White River in southern Missouri is a nationally known fly-fishing destination, teeming with brown and rainbow trout. The stream is fed from underground springs in the Ozark Mountains, keeping its...
May 2 2022 // A Waukegan, Illinois contractor – with a history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations – was cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Apr 29 2022 // North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has filed suit against an Illinois contractor who came to the state after Hurricane Florence in 2018, convincing homeowners to assign insurance benefits to his companies.Dennis...
Apr 21 2022 // A Waukegan, Illinois contractor – with a history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations – was cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Apr 18 2022 // Adan Deniz, 43, a contractor from Santa Clarita, California, was arraigned on 21 felony counts of forgery, theft by false pretense, and workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly creating fraudulent...
Apr 11 2022 // Adan Deniz, 43, a contractor from Santa Clarita, California, was arraigned today on 21 felony counts of forgery, theft by false pretense, and workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly creating fraudulent...
Apr 7 2022 // Nearly five years after an employee died in a trench collapse, a Missouri contractor exposed two workers to the life-threatening risk of being buried by thousands of pounds of soil as they worked in an unprotected trench...
Apr 7 2022 // TriMet is facing a $10 million lawsuit from the city of Portland, Oregon, for alleged deeply flawed work on a streetcar track, leaving it with major structural defects that could cost the city millions in repairs.Oregon...