All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2013 // The federal government awards billions of dollars in contracts each year to companies that routinely violate safety, health and wage regulations, according to a report that calls for stricter measures to hold federal...
Dec 9 2013 // Florida CFO Jeff Atwater announced the arrests of nine men as a result of a two-day undercover operation in Manatee County focusing on unlicensed contractors that failed to provide workers’ compensation...
Dec 6 2013 // The family of a woman slain during the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard is the first to file a lawsuit against the U.S. government and defense contractors over the slaughter that left 12 dead, alleging that...
Dec 2 2013 // Underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. is now offering its energy program on an admitted basis in Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. The program provides a...
Nov 26 2013 // Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, the New York State Labor Department and the New York State Attorney General’s Office recently signed memoranda of understanding to work...
Nov 20 2013 // XL Group has partnered with the American Contractor’s Insurance Group (ACIG), construction industry owned insurance organization, to provide data and analytics for construction clients. The goal is to drive...
Nov 19 2013 // Four businesses on a busy Hattiesburg Street are suing Hattiesburg city government, claiming a street improvement project has cost them customers.The project on Hardy Street began Oct. 30, 2012, according to The...
Nov 18 2013 // There’s a new norm in the construction market — a new normal when it comes to measuring growth and opportunity.Construction has made a comeback in certain market segments, said Cam Dickinson, senior vice president...
Nov 18 2013 // Construction sites can be a flurry of activity. In addition to focusing on quality construction and completing projects on time, site owners must be sure risk management measures are sufficient. A Controlled Insurance...
Nov 18 2013 // Those that specialize in the contractors and builders segment say a lot has changed in this class since 2007. The recession forced the insurance industry to be flexible and creative when it came to insuring this class,...
Oct 23 2013 // Another week has passed, which apparently means that it’s time for another terrifying article from Sharon LaFraniere, Ian Austen and Robert Pear on the federal health-care exchanges.Federal contractors have...
Oct 21 2013 // Many homeowners who got slammed by Superstorm Sandy are finding their flood insurance checks are nowhere near large enough to cover their repairs, and consumer advocates put some of the blame on errors by the multitude of...
Oct 18 2013 // When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent contractors to avoid paying insurance, taxes, fair wages and overtime.Danny Odom, chief operating...
Oct 18 2013 // ACE USA has launched catastrophe claims servicing capabilities specifically designed for the construction industry through ESIS Inc., a risk management services company owned by the ACE Group.The new offerings provide an...
Oct 11 2013 // The Obama administration has a little over a month to fix the technology problems crippling its online health insurance marketplace, or jeopardize the goal of signing up millions of Americans in time for benefits under...
Oct 7 2013 // A federal contractor said it will hire nearly 500 people in Lawton, Okla., to help support the new health insurance exchanges created under the federal health care law.Serco North America announced that it will lease a...
Sep 23 2013 // Years before skyscrapers, when New York City’s tallest building was still the 281-foot spire of Wall Street’s historic Trinity Church, state lawmakers passed the Scaffold Law, which made property owners and...
Sep 12 2013 // A southern New Jersey man has been indicted on charges of providing a false insurance certificate and working as an unregistered contractor after authorities revoked his registrationShane Wood of Toms River, also known as...
Sep 9 2013 // There is a key difference between an independent contractor and a subcontractor. An independent contractor relationship exists where there are two parties, such as the owner and the contractor. A subcontractor relationship...
Sep 5 2013 // KBR Inc. is invoking federal laws shielding contractors during wartime in an effort to avoid a Texas trial over injuries claimed by troops who were exposed to toxic chemicals while guarding a work site in Iraq.KBR argued...