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Contractor Additional Insured Endorsements May Reduce Coverage Available to the Named Insured
Jan 25 2009 // Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on contractor additional insured endorsements. Part one was published in the Jan. 12, 2009, issue of Insurance Journal magazine. Arising out of the named...
XL Expands Pollution Coverage for Contractors
Jan 13 2009 // XL Insurance now offers several program enhancements to its pollution coverages for contractors, extending environmental coverage for all aspects of a contractor’s operations, both on and off the jobsite, the company...
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...
Facts About the Progressively Narrowing Coverage of Contractors and Additional Insured Endorsements
Jan 11 2009 // The three most commonly used additional insured endorsements in construction relationships are the Insured – Owners, Lessees Or Contractors – Scheduled Person Or Organization (CG 20 10); Additional Insured...
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...
Carolina Contractors Endorse Swett & Crawford Stucco Insurance
Jan 6 2009 // Wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford has won the endorsement of the Carolina Lathing & Plastering Contractors Association for its insurance program designed especially to cover the risks and exposures of...
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...
Seven Sentenced in New York for $1M Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 16 2008 // Four insurance adjusters and three contractors were ordered to forfeit $248,000 after pleading guilty to kickbacks made possible by inflating insurance claims on properties in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten...
California Court: Workers’ Comp Doesn’t Bar Independent Contractor’s Claim
Dec 9 2008 // Workers’ compensation does not bar a worker injured at a construction site from bringing a tort claim when the worker is an independent contractor, the California Court of Appeal has ruled. According to court...
Massachusetts Settles with Big Dig Contractor for $21M
Nov 17 2008 // One of the Big Dig’s largest contractors, Modern Continental Construction Inc., will pay $21 million in damages related to a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse as well as the cost of fixing leaks in the massive highway...
Sensible Success
Nov 16 2008 // Focusing on One Industry Has Allowed Construction Specialist Allied North America to Grow Organically Through Even the Toughest Markets Top 100 Agency Profile Ranking: No. 6 Agency Name: Allied North America Headquarters:...
Foreclosed Residential Projects
Nov 2 2008 // When it’s Broken, How Do We Fix it? Halloween has come and gone, but modern-day ghost towns continue to haunt the U.S. landscape. After nearly a decade of exponential growth, developers and homebuilders have seen the...
Law Changes Defense in Construction Defect Claims
Nov 2 2008 // New California Law Affects Wraps’ Indemnity Contracts, Could Increase Litigation California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved legislation affecting indemnity for construction defect claims in contracts in...
Foreclosed Residential Projects
Nov 2 2008 // When It’s Broken, How Do We Fix It? Halloween has come and gone, but modern-day ghost towns continue to haunt the U.S. landscape. After nearly a decade of exponential growth, developers and homebuilders have seen the...
California Change to Construction Contracts Could Increase Litigation
Oct 29 2008 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved legislation affecting indemnity for construction defect claims in contracts in residential construction — a decision that could increase litigation when resolving...
Texas Supreme Court Revisits Workplace Injury Case
Oct 20 2008 // The Supreme Court of Texas recently held a rare rehearing of a unanimous decision listening to arguments about whether it erred last year in ruling that a contract employee who suffered on-the-job injuries couldn’t...
HDR Insurance Offers Insurance Market for Plumbing Contractors
Oct 2 2008 // HDR Insurance Services has a new market for commercial, residential and commercial service and repair plumbers in Arizona, California and Nevada. The admitted policy includes coverage for commercial auto, general liablity,...
OSHA Cites Contractors in Deadly New York Crane Collapse
Sep 17 2008 // A federal agency hit three construction firms with penalties totaling $313,500 on Monday for safety violations that led to a tower crane collapse that killed seven people in March. The citations by the Occupational Safety...
Trans Cal Unveils New Artisan Contractor Program
Sep 16 2008 // Trans Cal Associates has unveiled a new program from an “A-” rated, admitted carrier offering general liability for various classes of artisan contractors. Minimum premium starts at $1,000 for a traditional...
A.D. Carlton Rolls Out New Market for Artisan Contractors in Ill., Texas
Sep 9 2008 // Irving, Texas-based A.D. Carlton Insurance, a wholesale broker and MGA specializing in contractors, has introduced a new general liability market for artisan contractors in Texas and Illinois. Program details include: $700...
