All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2008 // A House committee looking into defense contractors has alleged that the Department of Defense (DoD) has been lax in its management such that insurance companies providing workers’ compensation for civilian employees...
May 14 2008 // Cambridge General is now accepting applications for harvesting contractors. This program was developed for fruit or vegetable contractors harvesting by hand in addition to those harvesting use farm machinery. To be...
May 12 2008 // A shareholder of FedEx Corp filed a lawsuit against the package delivery company’s board last Thursday alleging the directors exposed the company to damages by misclassifying employees as contractors.A FedEx...
May 5 2008 // National Advantage Insurance Services Inc. (NAIS) has added a new nonadmitted market for artisan/service contractor general liability in California. Target classes include but are limited to commercial building...
May 5 2008 // A Connecticut general contractor who delegates special inspections of all steel welding work as required by the state’s building code to a subcontractor is not liable for injuries resulting from an accident that...
May 5 2008 // New York’s highest court has ruled that a Manhattan high-rise owner is liable for injuries to a tenant’s workman, even though the worker was hired without the landlord’s consent in violation of the...
Apr 28 2008 // New York’s highest court ruled that a Manhattan high-rise owner is liable for injuries to a tenant’s workman, even though the worker was hired without the landlord’s consent in violation of the lease.The...
Apr 28 2008 // Even as it met a deadline to avoid a $3.3 million performance penalty, the private company that runs Louisiana’s Road Home program faced a new $1.65 million fine if it did not meet additional benchmarks designed to...
Apr 25 2008 // Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT) promoted Donnie Doan to vice president in the firm’s bond department.In this role, he is responsible for leading, planning, organizing and budgeting for the bond...
Apr 22 2008 // Insurance agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic are worried about how their customers and they will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow.“An agent’s business is a direct reflection of...
Apr 21 2008 // Evanston Insurance Co. v. Atofina Petrochemicals Inc., Texas Feb. 15, 2008. Contract provision requiring that refinery “shall be named as additional insured” sufficient to trigger additional insured coverage...
Apr 21 2008 // Certificates — not again. Haven’t we heard enough about this topic?Apparently not. Certificates are issued for all sorts of insureds, but contracting risk is the most dangerous of them all. Why does the contractor...
Apr 15 2008 // A Connecticut general contractor who delegates special inspections of all steel welding work as required by the state’s building code to a subcontractor is not liable for injuries resulting from an accident that...
Apr 11 2008 // Builders & Trademen’s Insurance Services Inc. of Washougal, Wash., has a new online artisan contractor program available in Washington. The admitted program has 44 eligable classes. New residential work is...
Apr 7 2008 // Agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states are worried about how they and their customers will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow.“An agent’s business is a direct reflection of his...
Apr 7 2008 // Southeast insurance agents do not all agree the economy is in a recession or on the causes of the slumping economy, but they do agree the dominoes are in place that could trigger a serious economic chain reaction.Roger...
Mar 31 2008 // March 31, 2008 – London American Risk Specialists, Inc an independently owned & operated surplus lines/ wholesale brokerage firm, headquartered in Houston, TX, announces a new A.M. Best Rated A XV admitted...
Mar 19 2008 // A contractor died in an accident at a West Virginia coal preparation plant.State Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training Director Ron Wooten says 47-year-old John G. Workman was pinned under a 475-pound metal...
Mar 10 2008 // A Louisiana Insurance Department report shows that the state-sponsored Citizens Property Insurance Corp. had trouble handling claims for hurricanes Katrina and Rita because it was switching to new outside contractors and...
Feb 28 2008 // Bring Something To The Table Other Than Just A Price; Bring Something You Know The Competition Doesn’t Have… A Trade Specific General Liability Safety Program.There’s all the information you could ever want...