All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2006 // The South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision, ruling that the state is still responsible for providing reasonable care to patients even when it contracts work out to private vendors.In 1997,...
Aug 21 2006 // Texas-based Southwest Risk announced its appointment as the exclusive wholesale broker in the Southwest for a new crane and heavy construction program.The program is designed for crane/rigging and related classes. This new...
Aug 7 2006 // Throughout California and other states, there has been an incredible increase in the number of professionals involved in or related to real estate. When thinking about real estate risks, the first to come to mind are real...
Aug 7 2006 // Throughout California and other states, there has been an incredible increase in the number of professionals involved in or related to real estate. When thinking about real estate risks, the first to come to mind are real...
Aug 4 2006 // AmCom Insurance Services Inc. in San Ramon, Calif., is offering contractor’s property and inland marine coverage in California to compliment the existing, preferred commercial auto program. The program is being...
Aug 4 2006 // Members of Associated Builders & Contractors’ Sierra chapter received premium refunds from Builders Insurance Company as part of the workers’ comp insurer’s “retro” plan. A retrospective...
Aug 3 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott warned El Pasoans and other West Texas communities to be wary of fly-by-night contractors and other scam artists who might try to take advantage of homeowners and other consumers during...
Aug 3 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. has added a new standard to its specialty contractors package program. This is an ISO standard occurrence coverage form offered as an additional option to the company’s...
Aug 1 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc.’s Managed Insurance Programs Division is offering a new market for wrapups and conversions for general contractors and developers.The contractors wrapup program includes: *New...
Jul 24 2006 // Residential construction throughout the country surged to an all-time high in 2005, according to the United States Commerce Department. And though economists forecasted a slowing of construction and sales activity in 2006,...
Jul 21 2006 // Federal workplace safety regulators have fined a demolition contractor more than $164,000 for alleged safety violations, including numerous violations at a building collapse in Holyoke, Mass. that killed one worker and...
Jul 21 2006 // Two licensed public adjusters who fraudulently collected more than $400,000 from two insurance companies by submitting bogus contractor agreements have been arrested in Miami by detectives in the Department of Financial...
Jul 19 2006 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has announced that its Construction Industry Practice, formerly part of ACE Risk Management, will now become a unit of ACE Casualty Risk, and...
Jul 5 2006 // With the growing trend by California farmers looking to third parties to hire labor, Cambridge General Agency is offering a market to help independent agents place farm labor contractors coverage. Coverage is being offered...
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Jul 3 2006 // The artisan market is filled with small trade contractors with a couple hundred thousand dollars in receipts and relatively small premiums. Yet that has not stopped NationsBuilders Insurance Services from wanting to...
Jul 3 2006 // The artisan market is filled with small trade contractors with a couple hundred thousand dollars in receipts and relatively small premiums. Yet that has not stopped NationsBuilders Insurance Services from wanting to...
Jul 3 2006 // Owner controlled insurance programs (OCIPs) or contractor controlled insurance programs (CCIPs), commonly referred to as “wraps,” that have been traditionally used for large, commercial projects with...
Jul 3 2006 // In The Perfect Storm, the book that inspired the movie of the same name, author Sebastian Junger defined “the perfect storm” as a tempest that may happen only once in a century, a storm created by so rare a...
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...