All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 23 2013 // A southern West Virginia coal company contractor has been charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government.Aracoma Contracting LLC of Williamson is accused of structuring cash withdrawals in increments of $10,000...
Aug 22 2013 // United Fire & Casualty Company (United Fire), based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, announced a total policyholder dividend equal to $615,856 to members of its participating state Land Improvement Contractors Associations...
Aug 22 2013 // South Carolina’s high court has found that a general contractor cannot sue a subcontractor for faulty workmanship in instances where the subcontractor is in essence doing work on the contractor’s behalf.The...
Aug 22 2013 // Advanced Insurance Underwriters, a nationwide provider of commercial insurance, and CODA, the California Operator & Door Association, have collaborated to give contractors access to general liability coverage and...
Aug 12 2013 // Georgia’s high court has handed contractors and their clients a victory by expanding the scope of a contractor’s general liability policy so that it includes damage due to a contractor’s faulty...
Aug 8 2013 // An insurer says a contractor being sued by people injured in a Philadelphia building collapse that killed six others had an invalid insurance policy.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Berkley Assurance Co. of Iowa...
Aug 5 2013 // Florida’s high court has ruled that insurers under a 2008 law must pay a contractor’s overhead and profit as part of the expense of repairing a homeowner’s property despite repairs not having been...
Jul 24 2013 // Florida’s high court has ruled that insurers under a 2008 law must pay a contractor’s overhead and profit as part of the expense of repairing a homeowner’s property despite the fact the repairs may not...
Jul 16 2013 // Newly-formed Ink Underwriting in Kennesaw, Georgia, said it has acquired Pioneer Programs Insurance Solutions, a Pasadena, California-based niche insurance program administrator for the construction and long term care...
Jul 10 2013 // A North Carolina judge says the town of Hope Mills can sue companies that built a dam that failed. The Fayetteville Observer reported that Superior Court Judge Erwin Spainhour said that the companies can be sued for breach...
Jul 9 2013 // ACE USA has launched new capabilities specifically designed for healthcare industry construction projects through ESIS, Inc., a risk management services company owned by the ACE Group.The new offerings include...
Jun 27 2013 // Pennsylvania’s House Republican leaders recently agreed to hold a public hearing on legislation to better regulate the state’s demolition industry. The public hearing is expected to be held in July following...
Jun 24 2013 // The city of Moore, Okla., is paying a local contractor three times what neighboring Oklahoma City is being charged by vendors from out-of-state to remove debris left over from late May’s deadly tornadoes.The...
Jun 18 2013 // With the weather reaching sweltering temperatures this summer, it is important to have a working, reliable air conditioning unit. But scam artists often use the rise in temperatures to take advantage of consumers by...
Jun 14 2013 // The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits this week against discount retailer Dollar General Corp. and a BMW manufacturing plant in South Carolina over their use of criminal background checks to screen out...
Jun 12 2013 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has introduced a new contractors pollution liability (CPL) owner-controlled insurance program (OCIP) for the healthcare industry. This new policy can be used to...
May 20 2013 // Among a horde of bills wending its way through California’s Legislature, there’s an innocuous looking bill with simple language to change a few words in existing law that could have a great deal of meaning to...
May 8 2013 // The ACE Group has launched ACE Express Private Health Care Protection and ACE Express Not-For-Profit Health Care Protection policies specifically designed for the new exposures facing health care organizations. The...
May 7 2013 // As a horde of bills that’s introduced each year wends their way through both houses of California’s Legislature, a few people in the insurance industry are watching closely an innocuous looking bill with simple...
May 3 2013 // More Maryland homeowners will avoid a costly trap by predatory contractors thanks to a new law, the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition Against Insurance Fraud said.Maryland Senate Bill 736 was signed into law by Gov. Martin...