Latest Construction Headlines
All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Help Contractors Prepare for the Rebound with Contract Bonds
Sep 10 2012 // Are you offering your commercial clients all the products and services they need? You may want to consider establishing a bond program for contractors. Bonds complement a commercial book because: Bonds boost retention by...
U.S. Construction Firms Facing Double-Digit Increases for Liability Insurance: Marsh
Aug 31 2012 // The commercial general liability market for the U.S. construction industry continues to firm with underwriters seeking rate increases of up to 15 percent, according to a report published by Marsh. Construction firms with...
5 Conn. Firms Cited for Paying Workers Off the Books, Evading WC Laws
Aug 22 2012 // Connecticut authorities said this week that five subcontracting firms at a large Stamford construction site have been cited for alleged wage violations. The construction site at Stamford’s Harbor Point area is the...
Aon Risk Solutions Hires Construction Services Executive in Atlanta
Aug 17 2012 // Aon Risk Solutions, the brokerage and risk management business of Aon plc, recently announced the addition of Wesley Williams as surety leader in the construction services group. Williams is based in Aon’s Atlanta...
Liberty International Underwriters Names Kania as SVP, Energy and Construction
Aug 16 2012 // Timothy R. Kania has been appointed as senior vice president of energy and construction in the U.S. and Latin America for Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a part of Liberty Mutual Insurance’s global...
AIR Worldwide Now Offering Builder’s Risk Capability
Aug 14 2012 // AIR Worldwide (AIR) has expanded its offerings for commercial insurers with a capability for determining losses from natural catastrophes to buildings under construction. CLASIC/2Version 14.0 introduces the ability to...
S.J. Louis Construction of Texas Cited for Safety Violations
Aug 14 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited S.J. Louis Construction of Texas Ltd. with one serious and one repeat safety violation for exposing workers to trenching and...
2 Dead, 3 Injured In Colo. Construction Zone Crash
Aug 2 2012 // The Colorado State Patrol says a six-vehicle crash in a construction zone in southern Colorado has left two people dead and seriously injured two others. Troopers say five vehicles were stopped on Colorado Highway 69 near...
RSA Appoints New Construction & Engineering Head
Jul 26 2012 // UK-based RSA has appointed Clive Harrington-Rutterford as Global Portfolio Leader for its Construction & Engineering (C&E) business within its Global Specialty Lines (GSL) unit. He will be responsible for leading...
Report: 10,000 Construction Jobs Lost in Wisconsin
Jul 25 2012 // A new report says Wisconsin lost more than 10,000 construction jobs in the last year. The Associated General Contractors of America says the state’s construction employment dropped about 11 percent from June 2011 to...
No Falling Sky
Jul 23 2012 // “The economic sky is not falling.” That’s the opinion, at least, of Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.D., president and economist at the Insurance Information Institute. Hartwig told attendees at an insurance...
ACE Launches New Builders’ Risk Product
Jul 18 2012 // ACE USA has developed the ACE Construction Risk coverage form for general contractors, developers and owners with ongoing construction needs. It can also be tailored to meet project specific requirements, addressing...
Allied World U.S. Launches Construction Casualty Unit in New York
Jul 11 2012 // Switzerland-headquartered Allied World Assurance Company Holdings AG has expanded its U.S. casualty operations with the launch of a new construction casualty division. The new division will be run from Allied’s New...
Emerson College in Boston to Pay $250K for Alleged Asbestos Violations
Jul 9 2012 // Emerson College and Suffolk Construction Company Inc. in Massachusetts will each pay $250,000 in civil penalties to resolve alleged violations of the state’s air pollution prevention statute and asbestos regulation,...
OSHA Targets West Virginia Construction Worksites
Jun 29 2012 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching what it calls a “no-notice” campaign in West Virginia this summer in hopes of reducing construction injuries and deaths. The...
Texas Construction Company to Pay $10.5M to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Jun 28 2012 // Federal regulators reported that a North Texas-based construction company will pay more than $10 million to settle disability discrimination allegations related to the construction of multi-family housing. The U.S....
OSHA Taking Aim at W.Va. Construction Worksites This Summer
Jun 27 2012 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching what it calls a “no-notice” campaign in West Virginia this summer in hopes of reducing construction injuries and deaths. The...
Nebraska Construction Company Owner Sentenced for Wire, Insurance Fraud
Jun 26 2012 // A Fremont, Neb., man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for a wire fraud conviction that cost banks and insurance companies in Nebraska and Iowa millions of dollars. Thomas Herink was sentenced in...
New Louisiana Coast Restoration Work to Start in 2 Areas
Jun 25 2012 // A $428 million plan to restore two parts of Louisiana’s rapidly eroding coastline is moving ahead. The commander of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, officially signed the plan during a news...
Navigating Construction Accident Litigation
Jun 18 2012 // Between 2006 and 2008, there were 7,461 claims involving falls resulting in $243 million-plus in reserves, according to Bradford S. Purcell, a partner at the Illinois-based law firm of Purcell & Wardrope. During that...
