Latest Construction Headlines
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Blaze Rips Through Massachusetts Apartment Complex Under Construction
Jul 25 2017 // Fire officials say a blaze tore through an apartment complex under construction in Massachusetts. Waltham Fire Chief Paul Ciccone says the complex’s five buildings collapsed in the early Sunday fire. Ciccone says...
Castel Specialty Launches Global Construction Business
Jul 21 2017 // Castel Specialty, a division of Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd., has expanded its portfolio with the launch of Castel Construction. London-based Castel Underwriting Agencies, part of Barbican Insurance Group, is a...
Texas Lawmaker Seeks to Limit Austin’s Construction Site Worker Protections
Jul 19 2017 // Note: This article originally appeared in the Texas Tribune. Cesar Ovalde has been working in the construction industry for the better part of 15 years. Most of the time, he’s working on large commercial projects,...
Renovation at the Deli; A Story About Additional Insureds
Jul 19 2017 // One of the primary questions that have to be asked about an insurance policy is: who is an insured? Every policy has language that defines and limits who is eligible to find coverage there. On the CGL policy, the question...
Insurance Underwriters See Risks, Opportunities in Speeding Up Infrastructure Projects
Jul 14 2017 // “We’re going to cut a lot of red tape,” President Trump said at a CEO town hall meeting as he unrolled a long, colorful flow chart showing the process required for a state government to obtain the federal...
ABI Warned About Risks of Modern Building Materials Before Grenfell Tower Fire
Jun 27 2017 // “External cladding, made from combustible material can often cause significant fire spread upwards and between buildings, which is a particular concern for areas of high building density.” This now sadly...
MGA Pen Underwriting Launches Specialist Cover for UK Construction Market
Jun 27 2017 // Pen Underwriting* has launched a new product to address the UK construction industry’s wide-ranging, complex risk exposures. Backed by “A”-rated capacity from specialist insurer CNA Hardy, the single...
NYC Fire Officials Say Three Workers Injured at Construction Site
Jun 22 2017 // Three construction workers were injured in Queens when the roof of a two-story brownstone undergoing renovations collapsed. It happened on 28th Road in Astoria just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. Fire officials say a load of...
Easing Regulations, Speed of New Infrastructure Projects Raises Concerns for Underwriters
Jun 19 2017 // We’re going to cut a lot of red tape,” President Trump said at a CEO town hall meeting as he unrolled a long, colorful flow chart showing the process required for a state government to obtain the federal...
Tech Targets Construction Risk Management
Jun 19 2017 // Water sensors that detect leaks before a lot of damage is done, wearables that track workers’ whereabouts and video cameras that monitor sites — the building industry is gradually adopting these and other...
Report Claims 17 Deaths, Worker Abuse at World Cup Construction in Russia
Jun 16 2017 // Workers building stadiums for next year’s World Cup in Russia have faced repeated abuses and routinely gone unpaid for several months, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. At a stadium in Yekaterinburg, some...
XL Catlin Launches New Contractors Pollution Liability Express Program
Jun 15 2017 // XL Catlin has launched its new Contractors Pollution Liability Express Program in the US and Canada for small to mid-size construction firms. According to Cathy Cleary, XL Catlin’s executive environmental...
Florida Man Arrested for Running Shell Company Workers’ Comp Scam
Jun 5 2017 // A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly operating a shell construction company for the sole purposes of selling the company’s workers’ compensation certificate, according to a statement from Chief...
North Carolina Woman Awarded $1.5M in Construction Safety Whistleblower Suit
May 23 2017 // A federal jury has awarded $1.5 million to a former North Carolina fire investigator who said she was fired after complaining about the safety of construction work at an office building. The Charlotte Observer reported...
New York Construction Company Owner Indicted for Manslaughter
May 22 2017 // The owner of a Bedford-Stuyvesant construction company and his businesses have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges after a wall collapsed at an excavation site, killing one construction worker and injuring two...
Nationwide Names Travelers’ Stueber as Vice President of Construction
May 15 2017 // Linda Stueber has joined Nationwide as the new vice president of Construction for Standard Commercial, the insurer announced. Stueber has 25 years of experience in commercial lines— with the past 20 years focused...
TMK Offers Construction Insurance in UK, Ireland via Online Broker Portal
May 12 2017 // Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), the international specialist insurance business, has added construction to its One TMK broker portal. The tailor-made construction insurance product is underwritten through a fully automated...
North Carolina’s Builders Mutual Establishes Construction Job-Site Safety Institute
May 5 2017 // Builders Mutual, a provider of commercial insurance for the construction industry in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, has established the Job-Site Safety Institute (JSI), a nonprofit organization that will conduct safety...
OSHA: South Dakota Firm Ignored Safety Rules Before Deadly Building Collapse
May 3 2017 // A construction company that was remodeling a historic downtown Sioux Falls, S.D., building when it collapsed and killed a worker willfully ignored precautions, federal workplace safety officials allege. The U.S....
Workers Injured at Facebook Construction Site in California
Apr 28 2017 // Authorities say work has halted at a Facebook building under construction after an equipment failure caused part of the structure to collapse, injuring two workers. KNTV reported two construction workers were injured after...
