All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2023 // One of the largest providers of workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky has a new home. Or, rather, a home – its first physical headquarters. The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self Insurers’...
Jan 25 2023 // An insurance defense attorney accuses the McClenny Moseley & Associates law firm of teaming up with restoration contractors to illegally acquire clients, which sometimes resulted in duplicate lawsuits being filed...
Jan 23 2023 // The owner of a Washington state framing company is facing nearly $400,000 in fines for allegedly allowing crew members to work high above the ground without fall protection, according to the state Department of Labor and...
Jan 11 2023 // A federal workplace safety investigation into how a 15-year-old worker tragically suffered fatal injuries while installing fencing in Guthrie has found the employer failed to follow required workplace safety standards.U.S....
Dec 27 2022 // The owner of a Washington state framing company is facing nearly $400,000 in fines for allegedly allowing crew members to work high above the ground without fall protection, according to the state Department of Labor and...
Dec 16 2022 // For the eighth time since 2016, federal safety inspectors say they have found the owner of a Martin roofing company exposing roofers and other workers to the construction industry’s leading cause of death –falls...
Dec 9 2022 // Federal workplace safety investigators have determined that an Arkansas construction contractor failed to test oxygen levels in the confined space before two workers entered a sewer 20 feet below ground at an Edmond work...
Dec 8 2022 // An unlicensed contractor and a deputy sheriff in Florida have been charged in separate incidents of contracting fraud and insurance fraud, state and local authorities said.Ty Lamonte Hillman was arrested this week after...
Dec 5 2022 // An Everett, Washington, man reportedly caught remodeling homes while claiming he was too injured to work has been charged with felony theft in a workers’ compensation fraud case.Terry Lee Dawson, 62, is accused of...
Nov 23 2022 // A Clark County, Washington, man was charged with stealing $127,000 in workers’ compensation benefits for working at his own construction business while claiming he was too injured to work.Daniel Joseph Lesieur, 54,...
Nov 22 2022 // An Everett, Washington, man reportedly caught remodeling homes while claiming he was too injured to work has been charged with felony theft in a workers’ compensation fraud case.Terry Lee Dawson, 62, is accused of...
Nov 15 2022 // Three times in four months, federal safety inspectors observed workers employed by a Calumet City roofing contractor exposed to deadly fall hazards at job sites in Lake Zurich and Wheeling. In each instance, the...
Nov 14 2022 // Two Massachusetts contractors are facing a combined $690,000 in penalties for alleged safety errors that led to worker injuries during a demolition and asbestos abatement project at a former South Boston power plant.On May...
Oct 25 2022 // A Maryland general contractor has spent almost $10.5 million to fix an improperly installed concrete wall system in a school it was hired to build and wants its insurer to reimburse it under a rectification expense...
Oct 21 2022 // A restoration contractor that had been assigned benefits by a policyholder cannot pursue a bad faith claim against an insurer because it was not a party to the insurance contract, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday in...
Oct 10 2022 // A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Oct 7 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. For the last two-and-a-half years the entire nation has been tracking California Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which changed the definition of who is considered an...
Oct 5 2022 // A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Monday became the latest to hear arguments on whether President Joe Biden overstepped his authority with an order that federal contractors require that their employees be...
Sep 19 2022 // Despite the plethora of construction work currently available thanks to state and federal infrastructure investments and the pent-up demand for new housing it’s a challenging time for contractors.Several factors...
Sep 19 2022 // A Roselle, Illinois contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations who currently owes more than $390,000 in penalties, added an additional $303,105 in proposed fines for once again exposing workers...