All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 23 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection. Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Victor O. Schinnerer & Company’s contractors program recently released new 2004 editions of its three policy forms: a stand-alone professional liability policy, a stand-alone pollution...
Aug 17 2004 // Authorities are seeking two men suspected of participating in a scam that used phony insurance certificates and fake contractor bonds to win bids on public works projects. Three other suspects have already been arrested...
Aug 10 2004 // Sandy, Utah-based Prime Insurance Syndicate Inc. recently announced it is offering excess and surplus lines products to contractors and developers including contractor’s liability coverage for property/casualty in...
Aug 9 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Lemac General Agency in Orange, Calif., announced that Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. has returned to the CG0001 policy form for “True Artisans.” A “True Artisan” is a tradesperson who...
Aug 9 2004 // It takes a special breed of individual to devote their business career to helping people in a time of great loss.The costs of doing so are both emotional and physical—emotional stress from dealing with unexpected,...
Aug 9 2004 // There are multiple ways to grow your agency’s bottom line. The most exciting way is, of course, to sell more policies. You logically devote most of your energies to this essential activity because it’s the best...
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection.Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
Jul 19 2004 // Litigation around the country concerning contractors’ liability for construction defects discovered after operations are completed has made coverage very difficult to come by for specialty trade contractors, but it...
Jul 19 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers Inc. has re-released online rating indications for artisan contractors, general liability. Brokers can get immediate indications for several classes of...
Jul 19 2004 // Whether real or imagined, the threat of construction defects litigation has burned through the residential contractors liability insurance market like a California wildfire. Over the past couple of years, contractors and...
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection.A small contractor today struggling with workers’...
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection.Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
Jul 19 2004 // Litigation around the country concerning contractors’ liability for construction defects discovered after operations are completed has made coverage very difficult to come by for specialty trade contractors, but it...
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection.Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
Jul 19 2004 // Summer is just flying by us, and I hope you are enjoying every minute! We here at Insurance Journal are very busy in planning for our upcoming issues. In fact, as we put this issue to bed, production starts right up again...
Jul 12 2004 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist announced that White Construction Company, a major road builder headquartered in Chiefland, Fla., has pled guilty to six counts of Grand Theft.As a result of the plea agreement, White...
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Construction Insurance Solutions (CIS), a new group of territorial program administrators, introduced a program for specialty trade contractors involved in commercial and residential construction. The...
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Construction Insurance Solutions (CIS) has a new program for specialty trade contractors involved in commercial and residential construction: air-conditioning, concrete, electrical, excavators and land...
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Anderson & Murison Inc. has a program for general contractors doing commercial and apartments. No dwelling or condos. Blanket additional insured. Per project aggregate. Waiver of subrogation. This...