All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2011 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Statewide Insurance Brokers, a broker of contractors insurance for general liability, workers’ compensation, commercial vehicle coverage and bonds, has added Oregon to the states the company is...
Apr 18 2011 // Electrical Contractors’ Insurance Services (ECIS) has formed an affinity partnership with the Electrical Contractors Association of Scotland, known as SELECT. The partnership will allow ECIS to offer a range of...
Apr 12 2011 // In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear — much of which had little to do with the...
Apr 4 2011 // DUAL Corporate Risks has launched a product for computer consultants and contractors combining professional indemnity and products liability. “This is the first time DUAL Corporate Risks has offered a combined...
Mar 25 2011 // Six postal contractors in Ohio have been sanctioned for workers’ compensation fraud, state regulators say.The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) said a task force created by its Special Investigations...
Mar 21 2011 // Here’s what some insurers and brokers have been up to recently, inventing and tweaking key programs and coverages.Liability: Professional, E&O, D&O, EPLI CNA launched Epack Extra, an enhanced version of its...
Mar 21 2011 // A general contractor can recover from its subcontractor’s insurers for the cost of repairs for damage to surrounding property resulting from the subcontractor’s faulty workmanship, the Georgia Supreme Court has...
Mar 15 2011 // PPIB of Novato, Calif., has launched two new programs: one for weight loss centers and one for artisan contractors.The weight loss program is open to anyone who can legally prescribe certain weight loss products and the...
Mar 7 2011 // Austin, Texas-based Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. announced it has created a new Energy Division and hired Randy Bila as lead underwriter/broker.Bila has headed SIM’s general lines department for 19 years....
Mar 7 2011 // State lawmakers who deal with insurance issues have approved a model law for the trucking and courier industries that sets guidelines for who is an independent contractor and who is an employee.The National Conference of...
Mar 2 2011 // Schinnerer has launched a new contractor professional liability and pollution liability policy form. Available to general, design-build and many types of specialty contractors, the new policy form offers expanded coverage...
Feb 22 2011 // Williston, Vermont-based home improvement contractor Donald Bevins with three counts of failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance and two counts of violating a stop work order by state labor...
Feb 17 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit.In terms of lines...
Feb 8 2011 // Each year consumers pay more for their auto and homeowners insurance policies as a direct result of fraud. Unnecessary auto glass repairs, exorbitant towing charges, needless home repairs, total roof replacements, sinkhole...
Feb 7 2011 // A new Tennessee law is requiring all construction firm owners to register with the state if they choose to opt out of the state’s workers’ compensation system.The law is designed to protect general contractors...
Feb 7 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit.In terms of lines...
Jan 25 2011 // A new Tennessee law is requiring all construction firm owners to register with the state if they choose to opt out of the state’s workers’ compensation system.The new law is designed to protect general...
Jan 14 2011 // The American landscape is littered with partially built, financially distressed or bank owned properties. Whether they are towering condos, gleaming hotel resorts, urban mixed use or suburban office space, many of these...
Jan 10 2011 // A scathing audit by the federal Department of Homeland Security questions whether some $45 million in public money was properly spent to remove debris in the cleanup of Chambers County, one of the Southeast Texas counties...
Jan 10 2011 // The American landscape is littered with partially built, financially distressed or bank owned properties. Whether they are towering condos, gleaming hotel resorts, urban mixed use or suburban office space, many of these...