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Commercial Surety 101: Why Contractors Need to Be Licensed and Bonded
Dec 15 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety. As you build a book of bond business to better serve your commercial clients, you’ll be surprised to learn how many need to be licensed and bonded....
Maine Roofing Contractor Found Not Guilty in Death of Worker
Dec 14 2021 // A jury has found that a roofing contractor in Maine is not guilty of workplace manslaughter for the 2018 death of a worker. The Portland Press Herald reports that the jury reached its verdict at the Cumberland County...
California Farm Labor Contractor Arraigned in Alleged $1.8M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 10 2021 // Alfredo Casas, 62, of Stockton, California, has been arraigned on 15 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and tax evasion. Casas allegedly underreported payroll for his farm labor contracting business by over $1...
Update on Vaccine Mandates for Businesses, Health Workers and Federal Contractors
Dec 6 2021 // Millions of health care workers across the U.S. were supposed to have their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday, Dec. 6 under a mandate issued by President Joe Biden’s administration. Thanks to legal...
OSHA Fines Georgia Grading Contractor $20,480 After Worker’s Death
Nov 30 2021 // If federal workplace safety requirements had been followed, a 24-year-old Georgia worker would not have been killed in a front-end loader accident in May, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. OSHA...
Kentucky Contractors’ Self-Insurers’ Fund Returns $27M Dividend
Nov 19 2021 // The Kentucky Associated General Contractors’ Self-Insurers’ Fund will make a $27 million dividend payment to members next spring, the fund announced. The dividend marks the 28th straight year that the fund has...
Clock Is Ticking for Contractors and Workers Resisting Vaccine Mandates
Nov 3 2021 // In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc. and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according...
States Sue to End Biden COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
Nov 1 2021 // Eighteen states filed three separate lawsuits Friday to stop President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law. Attorneys general from Alaska,...
Former Michigan Contractor Sentenced in $3.8M Unemployment Insurance Fraud
Nov 1 2021 // A former contractor for the state of Michigan has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for helping orchestrate a $3.8 million fraud scheme involving money intended to help unemployed people during the coronavirus...
South Carolina Busts Contractors for Tax Evasion, False Insurance Certificates
Oct 27 2021 // For three years, undercover investigators watched as construction company owners in South Carolina met with a check-cashing company in parking lots, then walk away with bags of cash and fake insurance certificates, showing...
California Labor Commissioner Cites Contractor $1.7M for Wage Theft Violations
Oct 19 2021 // The California Labor Commissioner’s office has cited JPI Construction $1.7 million for wage theft violations affecting 265 workers. An investigation reportedly found that the San Diego-based company failed to pay...
Texas Contractor Fined $212K in Fatal Crane Collapse
Oct 15 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials say a Lufkin, Texas, contractor’s failure to assemble a crane boom properly caused the crane to collapse onto a passing vehicle on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, killing the two...
Illinois Construction Contractor Cited for Workplace Hazards; Fined $229.7K
Oct 15 2021 // For the sixth time in seven years, a federal workplace inspection has found a Roselle, Illinois, construction contractor putting workers at risk of serious injury or death by defying federal requirements to ensure the use...
Longtime New York City Contractor Indicted for $1M Insurance Fraud
Sep 30 2021 // Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Margaret Garnett announced the indictment of Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, Nursery, & Florist (DBLNF)...
Ohio Contractor Again Cited for Exposing Workers to Fall Hazards; Fined $253.5K
Sep 22 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials say an Ohio contractor continues to defy federal safety requirements to ensure workers use fall protection. OSHA reports that Orwell, Ohio-based roofing contractor Neal Weaver and his...
Contractor Killed at Alabama Steel Mill
Sep 22 2021 // A Texas man who was working for a contractor at an Alabama steel mill died after being struck by a forklift, authorities said. Don Burton died at Huntsville Hospital following the accident, which occurred Monday morning,...
California Contractors Charged in $5M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Sep 20 2021 // The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office along with the California Department of Insurance on Monday announced charges against multiple suspects in an organized insurance and workers’ compensation fraud...
Houston Contractor Cited for Safety Violations; Faces $95.5K in Fines
Sep 20 2021 // A Houston transmission line contractor has been cited by federal workplace safety officials for safety violations following worker’s death and severe injuries to another. Mesa Line Services failed to attach personnel...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Contractors and the Construction Industry
Sep 20 2021 // The coronavirus pandemic forced most individuals and businesses to stand still for a moment in time, a pause that was challenging for many and cost jobs, income and growth. While many industries are transitioning back to...
How Can Bond Producers Guide Contractors Now?
Sep 20 2021 // In construction, many variables are adding to an already difficult forecasting process. Predicting the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, government and private spending, interest rates, unemployment benefits,...
