All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 8 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety.If you’re an independent agent with construction contractor clients, here’s an article to share with them about accounting best practices. When...
Jun 7 2021 // Things look bad with California’s ever-sooner wildfire season seemingly approaching and what’s shaping up to be a severe drought across the Western U.S.The plague of wildfires in the past few years in...
May 25 2021 // Things look bad with California’s ever-sooner wildfire season seemingly approaching and what’s shaping up to be a severe drought across the Western U.S.The plague of wildfires in the past few years in...
May 19 2021 // Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC), a multi-line program administrator that builds end-to-end insurance products with artificial intelligence (AI) engineering and data analytics, has launched a new general liability...
May 17 2021 // Carolyn Plaza of Fresno, Calif., self-surrendered on May 6 after a warrant for her arrest was issued on six felony counts of insurance fraud.A complaint filed on April 16, alleges Plaza underreported more than $3 million...
May 7 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety.When contractors have a project that is in danger of default, they sometimes mistakenly believe that their surety bond is equivalent to an insurance policy....
May 6 2021 // Carolyn Plaza of Fresno, Calif., self-surrendered on May 6 after a warrant for her arrest was issued on six felony counts of insurance fraud.A complaint filed on April 16, alleges Plaza underreported more than $3 million...
Apr 22 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently announced changes in the state’s contracting process to ensure construction and other companies are not rewarded with government money for payroll fraud such as misclassifying...
Apr 22 2021 // A Long Island, New York, superstructure, foundation and concrete company will pay $135,612 in penalties stemming from the collapse of an approximately 30-foot deep trench in Oyster Bay that led to the deaths of two...
Apr 7 2021 // A Trenton, New Jersey-based contractor is being fined $201,000 after one of its employees suffered serious injuries when the roof beneath him collapsed.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Apr 6 2021 // As Florida insurers focus on addressing mounting losses in the state’s property insurance market with legislative reforms, rising rates and coverage restrictions, other stakeholders are working to educate consumers...
Mar 26 2021 // A company has been fined over $74,000 for improperly sending asbestos-tainted debris to a landfill in Southern Oregon.The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality described the violations as “major magnitude...
Mar 22 2021 // Amwins Program Underwriters has developed a new insurance coverage dedicated to alarm contractors that includes commercial general liability, professional liability, property and inland marine coverage.The program can be...
Mar 12 2021 // Federal officials have cited an Oklahoma construction contractor for exposing its employees to trenching and excavation hazards, violations for which it has been cited previously.OSHA cited Cherokee Pride Construction Inc....
Mar 9 2021 // In an effort to educate consumers about contractor fraud schemes that are contributing to increased insurance rates, Florida’s Insurance Consumer Advocate (ICA) Tasha Carter has launched a new educational initiative,...
Mar 3 2021 // An Ohio roofing contractor has been cited by federal workplace safety officials after a 14-year-old boy who was working on the roof of a Berea, Ohio, townhome without required fall protection suffered critical injuries...
Mar 1 2021 // An Ohio roofing contractor has been cited for the sixth time since 2012 by federal workplace safety regulators for failing to ensure workers used required fall protection equipment.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Feb 23 2021 // Digital wholesaler broker Pathpoint reported it now has a new general liability submission and instant quoting service for contractor segments, with participation from leading contractor excess and surplus...
Feb 22 2021 // After the big freeze in Texas comes the big thaw — and the big demand for workers to repair the broken pipes and sagging roofs the retreating ice and snow will reveal.It could take months for contractors to fix the...
Feb 18 2021 // Barely two years after an Oak Grove, Missouri, plumbing contractor agreed to adopt a comprehensive trench safety program following the December 2016 death of an employee in an unprotected trench, federal inspectors...