All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
Feb 26 2010 // American Safety Insurance (ASI) has updated its contractor pollution liability form to satisfy the exposure created by new regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency requiring any contractors to comply with new...
Feb 22 2010 // Volkert & Associates Inc. has agreed to give the Mobile County Public School System $9 million to settle a 6-year-old lawsuit involving some schools where Volkert oversaw construction.School officials sued Volkert,...
Feb 19 2010 // A general contractor’s hiring of a subcontractor does not necessarily preclude coverage under its commercial general liability (CGL) policy for shoddy work performed by the subcontractor, Mississippi’s highest...
Feb 18 2010 // Travelers Construction Insurance and Travelers Bond & Financial Products have teamed together to offer the Wrap+ Fidelity and Crime coverage to the construction industry. The policy will help protect construction...
Feb 16 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
Feb 12 2010 // Philadelphia Insurance Cos. has expanded its environmental product offering with the addition of contractor environmental and professional coverage. The product is designed specifically to protect insureds from...
Feb 11 2010 // The city of Gloucester, Massachusetts has filed a $1.3 million insurance claim against the company that ran its drinking water system during last summer’s contamination crisis that required a nearly three-week long...
Feb 11 2010 // The mayor of the Connecticut town where a power plant was rocked by a fatal explosion says the general contractor building it is asking for property damage claims from neighbors. Middletown Mayor Sebastian Guiliano said...
Feb 7 2010 // The ProBuilders risk retention group offering general liability insurance for builders and contractors will stop accepting new business and not renew most of its 1,800 policies as of March 1.The group program has not been...
Feb 7 2010 // The ProBuilders risk retention group offering general liability insurance for builders and contractors will stop accepting new business and not renew most of its 1,800 policies as of March 1.According to Bill Tepe, chief...
Jan 21 2010 // The Engineering Contractors Association (ECA) appointed Joe Costamagna, account executive at San Francisco’s Woodruff-Sawyer & Co., to its board of directors. Costamagna joined Woodruff-Sawyer’s...
Jan 19 2010 // The ProBuilders risk retention group offering general liability insurance for builders and contractors will stop accepting new business and not renew most of its 1,800 policies as of March 1.According to Bill Tepe, chief...
Jan 10 2010 // Construction insurance specialists say market improvement in 2010 for the construction industry will be slow for most sectors — even so opportunities do exist. Publicly funded construction projects have seen an...
Jan 6 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” to National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., RRG (NCIC), which is headquartered in...
Dec 6 2009 // A special legislative session to reconsider a pending change to workers’ compensation insurance requirements in Tennessee will only take place if there’s a consensus among lawmakers, according to Gov. Phil...
Nov 15 2009 // Sound risk management necessitates that owners or general contractors contractually mandate workers’ compensation coverage anytime an independent contractor or subcontractor is hired to perform work on their behalf....
Nov 3 2009 // U.S. tax authorities will start to audit 6,000 randomly selected companies to focus on employment tax issues ranging from executive compensation to fringe benefits, Internal Revenue Service officials said.The audits will...
Nov 2 2009 // A national trade organization estimates the number of lost construction jobs in South Dakota at 1,400 during a year in which a weak economy and tight credit slowed developers and builders.The 6 percent drop in South Dakota...
Oct 21 2009 // Three states said Tuesday they plan to sue FedEx Corp., accusing the second-largest U.S. package delivery company of violating labor laws by illegally classifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees to...