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Contractor Sends Letters to Wis. Residents at Risk for Identity Theft
Jan 16 2008 // Wisconsin residents at risk for identity theft have been mailed letters explaining how they can sign up for free credit monitoring and receive special insurance. State contractor EDS Corporation of Texas sent some of the...
Contractors’ Insurance: The Hard Sell for the Soft Market
Jan 13 2008 // Selling Long-term Relationships over Short-term Savings For contractor Paige Smith of Neuse Tile Service Inc. in Youngsville, N.C., the increase in cold calls she is receiving from insurance agents is a sure sign of the...
Oregon Requires CGL to Include Completed Operations Coverage
Jan 9 2008 // The Oregon Department of Insurance is reminding producers who write coverage for the more than 45,000 Oregon contractors licensed through the Construction Contractors Board of a new law that requires general liability...
N.H. Fixes Workers’ Compensation Law for Contractors
Jan 3 2008 // As promised, New Hampshire lawmakers made changes to a controversial workers’ compensation measure affecting small contractors one of their first orders of business for 2008. Meeting in Concord on Jan. 2, the House...
Top Insurance Stories in 2007 in South Central
Dec 31 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
Big Dig Victim’s Family Agrees to $6M Settlement with N.Y. Epoxy Maker
Dec 27 2007 // The family of a woman who was killed in the Big Dig tunnel collapse in Boston has agreed to a $6 million out-of-court settlement with the company that supplied the epoxy blamed for causing 26 tons of concrete ceiling...
Weather blows through top stories of 2007
Dec 23 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
FedEx to Appeal Mass. Penalty over Classification of Drivers
Dec 20 2007 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has assessed penalties of more than $190,000 against FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. for what her office claims is an intentional misclassification of 13 drivers as...
Power Returns Slowly in Okla.; Losses from Storm Could Rise to $35M
Dec 13 2007 // The lights are going back on slowly in Oklahoma after a massive ice storm, the insured losses from which could reach $35 million, an insurance industry trade group said. “Insurance claims from ice damage are often...
Arrowhead Offers Package Policy Program for Contractor’s Commercial Auto
Dec 13 2007 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. has announced a new package policy program to write contractor’s commercial auto as part of a package with general liability, property and inland marine products. The program...
Sloan Mason Offers Oil and Gas Contractors Program
Dec 13 2007 // Sloan Mason based in San Diego is offering access to a new program for land-based oil and gas contractors nationwide. The company is providing general liability/auto/workers’ compensation with an “A” XV...
N.H. Promises to Fix Workers’ Compensation Law for Contractors
Dec 7 2007 // New Hampshire state lawmakers from both parties said this week they hope to quickly fix a workers’ compensation law when they return to the Statehouse in the new year. Earlier this year the Legislature closed a...
Hull and Co. of Newport Beach offers Contractors and Residential Builders Coverage
Dec 4 2007 // Hull and Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., is offering contractors and residential builders insurance. Coverage is being provided by a nonadmitted carrier rated “A” XV. Minimum premiums are $75,000 for commercial,...
N.Y. Fire Department, Contractors Form Job Safety Council
Dec 2 2007 // New York City fire department officials and construction contractors have formed a joint advisory council to lay down stringent safety rules for job sites, aimed at forestalling such mishaps as the fire that killed two...
Georgia Closes Contractors’ Liability Loophole
Dec 2 2007 // General contractors in Georgia are no longer able to use subcontractors as a broad shield against bodily injury and property damage claims at construction sites under a new law. The new statute went into effect July 1. The...
Aon Construction Services Group Adds Four
Nov 29 2007 // Aon Corp. announced that Michael R. Szot, Jim Reilly, Gary L. Stevens and Micah Chen have joined Aon Construction Services Group, all to be based in Los Angeles. “These individuals instantly enhance our profile...
N.Y. City Fire Department, Contractors Form Joint Job Safety Council
Nov 21 2007 // New York City fire department officials and construction contractors have formed a joint advisory council to lay down stringent safety rules for job sites, aimed at forestalling such mishaps as the fire that killed two...
Residential Woes Continue Over EIFS
Nov 18 2007 // ‘Synthetic stucco’ still difficult insurance market for contractors despite changes The use of the exterior insulation finishing system (EIFS), also referred to as “synthetic stucco,” in...
Construction Litigation Puts Agents at Risk
Nov 18 2007 // When contractors get sued, sometimes agents get caught in the middle Construction is an inherently dangerous activity. Hundreds if not millions of dollars are at stake with each project, and if something goes wrong,...
Contractor Arrested on Katrina Fraud Charge in Miss.
Nov 8 2007 // A Massachusetts contractor has been arrested on a felony fraud charge related to Hurricane Katrina recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Daryle Arthur Jager, 47, of Somerville, Mass., is accused of taking $7,000 from a...
