Latest Contractors Headlines
All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Website Helps Homeowners Manage Property, Connect to Insurers, Contractors
May 26 2011 // YourHomeStuff, a community connecting website designed specifically for homeowners has launched at www.yourhomestuff.com. YourHomeStuff simplifies the process of maintaining and protecting a home, and managing family and...
Massachusetts Court Allows Workers’ Suit Against Contractor
May 24 2011 // A worker who was injured and the estate of another who died at a Massachusetts construction site can sue the contractor who oversaw the job — despite the fact the contractor’s insurer has already paid them...
Contractors Object to California Regulator’s Plan to Rehabilitate Majestic Insurance
May 20 2011 // Former members of the self-insured workers’ compensation program Contractors Access Program of California, which was managed by now defunct Majestic Insurance Co., have filed a formal objection to the California...
Wash. Agents Can File Contractors’ Proof of Insurance Online
May 17 2011 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has created an online system for insurance agents to create, cancel and reinstate general liability insurance certificates for contractors registered in the...
Florida Gov. Scott Signs Property Insurance Cost Control Bill
May 17 2011 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed into law legislation that promises to lower costs for the state’s property insurers, including what they pay on sinkhole claims. While the memory of former Governor Charles...
Massachusetts Widow Sues Big Dig Contractors Over Husband’s Death
May 13 2011 // The widow of a Salem, Mass. man who died when he was flung into the handrails inside a Big Dig tunnel after his pickup truck crashed has filed a $2 million wrongful death suit against eight companies involved in...
Special Report: As Pirate Attacks Increase, Ship Owners Take Arms
May 3 2011 // Upstairs in a public house in the town of Poole on the English south coast, 18 men are preparing to take on the pirates of the Indian Ocean. Around antique polished wooden tables scattered with laminated charts, handouts...
Statewide Insurance Expands Contractors Insurance to Oregon
Apr 20 2011 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Statewide Insurance Brokers, a broker of contractors insurance for general liability, workers’ compensation, commercial vehicle coverage and bonds, has added Oregon to the states the company is...
Electrical Contractors’ Insurance Services, SELECT Form Partnership
Apr 18 2011 // Electrical Contractors’ Insurance Services (ECIS) has formed an affinity partnership with the Electrical Contractors Association of Scotland, known as SELECT. The partnership will allow ECIS to offer a range of...
Gulf Coast Officials Enjoy Spending Spree at BP’s Expense
Apr 12 2011 // In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear — much of which had little to do with the...
DUAL Corporate Risks Launches Product for Computer Consultants, Contractors
Apr 4 2011 // DUAL Corporate Risks has launched a product for computer consultants and contractors combining professional indemnity and products liability. “This is the first time DUAL Corporate Risks has offered a combined...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Finds Fraud at 6 Postal Contractors
Mar 25 2011 // Six postal contractors in Ohio have been sanctioned for workers’ compensation fraud, state regulators say. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) said a task force created by its Special Investigations...
Hot Programs and Products
Mar 21 2011 // Here’s what some insurers and brokers have been up to recently, inventing and tweaking key programs and coverages. Liability: Professional, E&O, D&O, EPLI CNA launched Epack Extra, an enhanced version of...
Georgia Court Rules CGL Covers Contractor’s Faulty Work
Mar 21 2011 // A general contractor can recover from its subcontractor’s insurers for the cost of repairs for damage to surrounding property resulting from the subcontractor’s faulty workmanship, the Georgia Supreme Court has...
PPIB Launches Weight Loss, Artisan Contractors Programs
Mar 15 2011 // PPIB of Novato, Calif., has launched two new programs: one for weight loss centers and one for artisan contractors. The weight loss program is open to anyone who can legally prescribe certain weight loss products and the...
Specialty Insurance Managers Launches Energy Division, Program
Mar 7 2011 // Austin, Texas-based Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. announced it has created a new Energy Division and hired Randy Bila as lead underwriter/broker. Bila has headed SIM’s general lines department for 19...
Model Bill Targets Misclassification of Trucking, Courier Workers
Mar 7 2011 // State lawmakers who deal with insurance issues have approved a model law for the trucking and courier industries that sets guidelines for who is an independent contractor and who is an employee. The National Conference of...
Schinnerer Launches New Contractor Policy Form
Mar 2 2011 // Schinnerer has launched a new contractor professional liability and pollution liability policy form. Available to general, design-build and many types of specialty contractors, the new policy form offers expanded coverage...
Vermont Charges Contractor with Workers’ Compensation Violation
Feb 22 2011 // Williston, Vermont-based home improvement contractor Donald Bevins with three counts of failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance and two counts of violating a stop work order by state labor...
Mood on Main Street: Agents on Hardest Hit Small Businesses
Feb 17 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit. In terms of lines...
