Latest Contractors Headlines
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IRS Gives Employers Break on Misclassified Employees
Sep 23 2011 // The Internal Revenue Service is offering a break to employers who come clean about wrongly classifying workers as independent contractors to avoid paying federal payroll taxes, the agency announced this week. What happens...
Associated Builders and Contractors, CNA Partner to Advance Construction Safety
Sep 20 2011 // Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and CNA’s Construction unit have partnered to advance industry best practices in the field of construction safety. During this three-year partnership, scheduled to launch...
Tennessee Court Gets General Contractor Liability Case
Sep 19 2011 // The Tennessee Supreme Court is considering a case that could change a homeowner’s ability to recover damages when a subcontractor botches a home repair or remodeling job. The case involves a Hamilton County couple...
U.S. Report on BP Oil Spill Imminent
Sep 14 2011 // A U.S. government team investigating last year’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will blame BP and its contractors for mistakes that led to the disaster in a report expected out as early as Wednesday, according to...
Mass. Court Rules on Joint Employers’ Responsibilty for Workers’ Comp
Sep 8 2011 // Two employers can be held jointly responsible for workers’ compensation benefits for an injured worker whom they both classified as an independent contractor, a Massachusetts appeals court has ruled. The...
Tennessee Supreme Court Hears General Contractor Liability Case
Sep 6 2011 // The Tennessee Supreme Court is considering a case that could change a homeowner’s ability to recover damages when a subcontractor botches a home repair or remodeling job. The case involves a Hamilton County couple...
Contractors Acting As Public Insurance Adjusters Irk States
Sep 5 2011 // Public adjusting activity is not welcome or licensed in all states and even in some where it is, the practice is coming under close scrutiny. In particular, states are cracking down on roofing and other contractors who...
Louisiana’s Suit Against Katrina Whistleblowers Dismissed
Aug 26 2011 // A federal judge on Aug. 24 dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana accusing two self-described whistleblowers of illegally copying and circulating documents containing confidential information about homeowners...
Vermont Contractor Gets 30 Days for No Workers’ Comp
Aug 22 2011 // The Vermont attorney general’s office said a Williston County contractor was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating Vermont’s workers’ compensation laws. Donald Bevins, who operated “Twin City...
Chartis Expands NextGen Protection to Project Contractors
Aug 18 2011 // Chartis has expanded NextGen Protection, a suite of environmental insurance products offered through its Environmental division, for project contractors. The latest product in the NextGen Protection suite is CPL...
Group of Allstate Agents Votes to Unionize
Aug 18 2011 // A group of Allstate agents who say the insurer controls them like employees rather than as independent contractors voted to affiliate with a union — a move the agents hope will help dissolve some of their concerns...
Tennessee Still Cleaning Up After April’s Tornadoes
Aug 12 2011 // The Rev. Bill Akers stood in a yard in Lookout Valley, pointing across a small valley at two stumps, gnarled remnants rising out of barren dirt in a place once flush with trees. Just a few hundred yards away, brush lined...
Navigators Expands Online Contractors Pollution Liability Insurance
Aug 8 2011 // The Navigators Group Inc. and its principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Co. Inc., expanded its online system for contractors pollution liability insurance. New enhancements to the online platform...
Chartis Expands Building Services Contractors’ General Liability Coverage
Aug 5 2011 // Chartis introduced a new general liaiblity product for building services contractors to address several target casualty exposures in a single endorsement. As part of a full suite of primary casualty solutions for the real...
Travelers Builds Marine Construction Program for Contractors
Aug 1 2011 // Travelers has developed a new marine construction program for construction contractors working with both the marine and non-marine exposures in and around the water. The Travelers Marine Construction program can be...
Allstate Agents Hope Unionization Sparks Changes at Insurer
Aug 1 2011 // Some unhappy Allstate Insurance agents who say the insurer controls them like employees even though they are independent contractors are moving to affiliate with a union. The National Association of Professional Allstate...
Audit Criticizes Administration of Defense Base Insurance Program
Jul 29 2011 // A recent governmental audit of the workers’ compensation insurance program for U.S. government contractors working on Afghanistan reconstruction is highly critical of the program’s administration by the U.S....
Contractors Acting As Public Insurance Adjusters Irk States
Jul 29 2011 // Public adjusting activity is not welcome or licensed in all states and even in some where it is, the practice is coming under close scrutiny. In particular, states are cracking down on roofing and other contractors who...
Contractor Will Not Increase Fund for LA Train Crash Victims
Jul 28 2011 // A contractor that employed the engineer blamed for the deadly 2008 crash of a Metrolink commuter train in Los Angeles won’t add more money to a $200 million victim’s compensation fund. Veolia Environment...
All Risks’ Quick Quoting Division Adds Western Contractor Market
Jul 27 2011 // The Quick Quoting Division of All Risks, Ltd. will offer 15% commission with a new A. M. Best “A” rated market, which provides general liability coverage for artisan contractors and general contractors on the...
