All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2007 // Contractors, project owners, and project finance professionals are increasingly interested in the niche market of contractors’ professional liability insurance (CPLI), according to a recent survey of insurers writing...
Jan 4 2007 // Bank of the West’s subsidiary BW Insurance Agency Inc. has acquired Contractor’s Insurance Services Inc., a full-service agency that specializes in providing commercial and personal lines, risk management and...
Dec 29 2006 // M.J. Hall and Co. Inc., a general agent and surplus lines wholesaler, has a new residential homebuilders program. The new homebuilders general liability program is for custom and tract general contractors in Arizona and...
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...
Dec 20 2006 // Burns & Wilcox, a Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent, has promoted Ken Lyon to assistant branch manager in the company’s Sacramento,...
Dec 15 2006 // A New York business owner faces charges of insurance fraud following his arrest by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office for allegedly defrauding the New York State Insurance Fund of more than...
Dec 13 2006 // Golden Insurance Co. RRG has extended its primary commercial general liability coverage for builders, general contractors and artisans to $1 million/$1 million beginning in Jan. 2007.Coverage is offered on a claims-made...
Dec 12 2006 // Homeowners who hire unlicensed contractors believing that will save them money may be penny-wise and pound foolish, according to a survey by Seattle-based Pemco Insurance.In its survey, Pemco found of Washingtonians who...
Dec 5 2006 // A Fall River, Mass., contractor faces $25,950 in fines from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a spot inspection found two employees working in an unprotected...
Nov 22 2006 // A federal work safety agency accused contractors in north Georgia and metro Atlanta last week of allowing employees to work in unsafe conditions in deep trenches at their sites.The Occupational Safety and Health...
Nov 21 2006 // The contractors professional liability insurance market is growing, but many contractors who have a professional exposure are not buying coverage, according to a new survey by Ames & Gough, based in Washington, D.C....
Nov 21 2006 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Service, Inc. has recently entered into an agreement with an “A” X rated carrier providing an exclusive national program for its online artisan contractor general...
Nov 9 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., recently announced that three more individuals have been arrested on charges of theft related to contractor fraud.On Oct. 23, 2006, Richard Eric Williford was arrested by...
Nov 2 2006 // The federal government has proposed $112,000 in fines for GILCO Contracting of Tuscaloosa, Ala., after an employee was seriously injured at the city’s Cottondale Sewer Project, labor officials said Monday.“A...
Oct 19 2006 // The city and its contractors are not immune from lawsuits brought by emergency workers sickened after toiling amid toxic dust at ground zero, a judge ruled, clearing the way for what he said should be the speedy resolution...
Oct 12 2006 // Judge Wilfred Carter of the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu, State of Louisiana, granted the motion for partial summary judgment of ConocoPhillips Company, successor-by-merger to Conoco Inc., that...
Oct 11 2006 // The Small Business Administration recently took what the surety bond industry believes is an important step to reinvigorate the government’s Surety Bond Guarantee Program. SBA is proposing rules intended to make...
Oct 5 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that his Special Agents made arrests for theft of funds related to alleged contractor fraud in the New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina.On Sept. 25, 2006,...
Oct 5 2006 // Millwright contractors now have access to a single source for their insurance and risk management needs according to a written statement issued by Travelers Construction. The products available for millwright contractors...