All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2008 // The Oregon Department of Insurance is reminding producers who write coverage for the more than 45,000 Oregon contractors licensed through the Construction Contractors Board of a new law that requires general liability...
Jan 25 2008 // Prosecutors reached a $458 million settlement with contractors over tunnel defects that caused a fatal 2006 accident but a small contractor that isn’t involved in the agreement says it unfairly spares the most...
Jan 23 2008 // The main management consultant and contractor on Boston’s $15 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig) has agreed to pay more than $407 million to resolve civil and criminal liabilities in connection with the...
Jan 16 2008 // Wisconsin residents at risk for identity theft have been mailed letters explaining how they can sign up for free credit monitoring and receive special insurance. State contractor EDS Corporation of Texas sent some of the...
Jan 13 2008 // For contractor Paige Smith of Neuse Tile Service Inc. in Youngsville, N.C., the increase in cold calls she is receiving from insurance agents is a sure sign of the industry’s softening market. A couple times a month...
Jan 9 2008 // The Oregon Department of Insurance is reminding producers who write coverage for the more than 45,000 Oregon contractors licensed through the Construction Contractors Board of a new law that requires general liability...
Jan 3 2008 // As promised, New Hampshire lawmakers made changes to a controversial workers’ compensation measure affecting small contractors one of their first orders of business for 2008.Meeting in Concord on Jan. 2, the House...
Dec 31 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
Dec 27 2007 // The family of a woman who was killed in the Big Dig tunnel collapse in Boston has agreed to a $6 million out-of-court settlement with the company that supplied the epoxy blamed for causing 26 tons of concrete ceiling...
Dec 23 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
Dec 20 2007 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has assessed penalties of more than $190,000 against FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. for what her office claims is an intentional misclassification of 13 drivers as...
Dec 13 2007 // The lights are going back on slowly in Oklahoma after a massive ice storm, the insured losses from which could reach $35 million, an insurance industry trade group said.“Insurance claims from ice damage are often...
Dec 13 2007 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. has announced a new package policy program to write contractor’s commercial auto as part of a package with general liability, property and inland marine products. The program...
Dec 13 2007 // Sloan Mason based in San Diego is offering access to a new program for land-based oil and gas contractors nationwide. The company is providing general liability/auto/workers’ compensation with an “A” XV...
Dec 7 2007 // New Hampshire state lawmakers from both parties said this week they hope to quickly fix a workers’ compensation law when they return to the Statehouse in the new year.Earlier this year the Legislature closed a...
Dec 4 2007 // Hull and Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., is offering contractors and residential builders insurance. Coverage is being provided by a nonadmitted carrier rated “A” XV. Minimum premiums are $75,000 for commercial,...
Dec 2 2007 // New York City fire department officials and construction contractors have formed a joint advisory council to lay down stringent safety rules for job sites, aimed at forestalling such mishaps as the fire that killed two...
Dec 2 2007 // General contractors in Georgia are no longer able to use subcontractors as a broad shield against bodily injury and property damage claims at construction sites under a new law.The new statute went into effect July 1. The...
Nov 29 2007 // Aon Corp. announced that Michael R. Szot, Jim Reilly, Gary L. Stevens and Micah Chen have joined Aon Construction Services Group, all to be based in Los Angeles.“These individuals instantly enhance our profile within...
Nov 21 2007 // New York City fire department officials and construction contractors have formed a joint advisory council to lay down stringent safety rules for job sites, aimed at forestalling such mishaps as the fire that killed two...