Latest Construction Headlines
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Nevada Bill Aims to Improve Construction Safety
Mar 10 2009 // A measure to improve safety training for construction site employees was endorsed recently by workers and labor leaders, a key state lawmaker, a major contractor and the head of Nevada’s Occupational Safety and...
States Gear Up for Stimulus Package
Mar 9 2009 // Impact on Insurance Industry May be Minimal, Experts Say The $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress looms as the largest mountain on the country’s newly changed economic landscape. But despite hope that the...
Nevada OSHA Director Defends Construction Site Safety Efforts
Mar 6 2009 // The head of Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration defended his agency’s efforts to ensure workplace safety during a Senate committee hearing this week that marked the start of a monthlong...
Judge Dismisses UConn Law Library Construction Lawsuit
Feb 27 2009 // A judge has dismissed the state’s lawsuit against contractors involved in the building of the University of Connecticut law school library, saying the state waited too long. Waterbury Superior Court Judge William...
North Carolina Construction Worker Wins Case Over Hostile Workplace
Feb 13 2009 // A federal jury has awarded $50,000 to a North Carolina construction worker who says co-workers hurled racial epithets at him, shot nails toward him and even tried to hang him on a job site. The Asheville Citizen-Times...
Families’ Lawsuit Blames Florida Hospital Mold for Kids’ Deaths
Feb 6 2009 // The families of three pediatric cancer patients sued a Florida hospital this week, claiming their children died after contracting fungal infections from renovations being performed at the facility. The lawsuit filed by...
New York City Announces New Construction Safety Measures
Feb 5 2009 // New York City set more than 40 new rules for the struggling construction industry to make high-risk sites safer and correct problems such as those that led to two deadly crane collapses last year. The Department of...
Aon Construction Services Group Adds Senior Leaders to Residential Practice
Jan 28 2009 // Aon Corp. has appointed Mike Szot and George Dale managing directors of Aon’s Construction Services Group’s residential practice in Los Angeles. These senior-level additions have been made in response to the...
Worker Killed at Boston Construction Site
Jan 26 2009 // A worker has been killed at a Boston construction site. Boston police said Friday that something heavy fell on the construction worker at the Russia Wharf development site on Congress Street around 10 a.m. The man was...
Lawyers Hope to Fix Catastrophe- Related Insurance Problems
Jan 14 2009 // The nation’s lawyers who deal with insurance issues are developing policy recommendations designed to improve access to insurance coverage, reduce litigation over coverage and mitigate future losses involving natural...
Minnesota Family Blames Poor Construction, Not Tornado, for Death
Jan 13 2009 // The family of a 10-year-old girl who died in a 2006 tornado in Rogers is blaming a homebuilder for the girl’s death. In a wrongful death lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court, the family of Jaymi Wendt claims...
Construction Insurance Brokers Say Building Backlog is Saving Commercial Sector… For Now
Jan 11 2009 // But Challenges Could Lie Ahead in 2009 Even With Government Stimulus Package Commercial construction insurance brokers from the northeast to the west coast, from Texas all the way to North Carolina, say the market and...
Manslaughter Charges Filed in NYC Crane Collapse
Jan 7 2009 // A contractor was charged with manslaughter Monday for allegedly using worn, fraying safety straps that broke apart and caused a crane to crash down on a Manhattan neighborhood, killing seven people in one of the...
2 Plead Guilty in Texas Insurance and Construction Corruption Case
Jan 7 2009 // Two contractors pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in Texas for offering thousands of dollars in kickbacks to four former Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District school board members and ex-superintendent Arturo...
2008: Top Stories of the Year
Jan 5 2009 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year we saw the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft market continued to...
Unions: 6 Months With No Las Vegas Construction Deaths Good
Dec 30 2008 // Union officials representing construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip say several factors have helped improve safety at large project sites, leading to no deaths in the past six months. There were 12 construction deaths...
2008: A Year of Financial Storms
Dec 21 2008 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year, the industry witnessed the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft...
Construction Worker’s Widow Sues Over Louisiana Bridge Accident
Dec 15 2008 // The widow of a construction foreman who died in October after he and nine other workers fell from the bridge they were building filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and two companies involved in the project. The...
New York City Construction Worker Injured by Concrete
Dec 12 2008 // A construction worker is in critical condition after concrete fell on him as he worked in a pit at New York City’s Times Square. The worker was taken to Jacobi Hospital after the early accident Thursday morning in...
Pole-Climbing Robots Could Save Lives of Construction Workers
Dec 11 2008 // Researchers have developed a trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers. The Robotics and...
