Latest Contractors Headlines
All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Understanding real estate-related risks
Aug 7 2006 // Throughout California and other states, there has been an incredible increase in the number of professionals involved in or related to real estate. When thinking about real estate risks, the first to come to mind are real...
AmCom Offers Contractors’ Property and Inland Marine Coverage
Aug 4 2006 // AmCom Insurance Services Inc. in San Ramon, Calif., is offering contractor’s property and inland marine coverage in California to compliment the existing, preferred commercial auto program. The program is being...
Associated Builders and Contractors Members Receive $200,000
Aug 4 2006 // Members of Associated Builders & Contractors’ Sierra chapter received premium refunds from Builders Insurance Company as part of the workers’ comp insurer’s “retro” plan. A retrospective...
Texas AG Warns West Texans About Scams After Flooding
Aug 3 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott warned El Pasoans and other West Texas communities to be wary of fly-by-night contractors and other scam artists who might try to take advantage of homeowners and other consumers during...
Arrowhead Adds New Standard for Specialty Contractors Package Program
Aug 3 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. has added a new standard to its specialty contractors package program. This is an ISO standard occurrence coverage form offered as an additional option to the company’s...
Arrowhead General Offers Wrapups and Conversions for General Contractors
Aug 1 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc.’s Managed Insurance Programs Division is offering a new market for wrapups and conversions for general contractors and developers. The contractors wrapup program includes: *New...
Protecting residential construction risks with OCIPs
Jul 24 2006 // Residential construction throughout the country surged to an all-time high in 2005, according to the United States Commerce Department. And though economists forecasted a slowing of construction and sales activity in 2006,...
Contractor Fined in Mass. Building Collapse
Jul 21 2006 // Federal workplace safety regulators have fined a demolition contractor more than $164,000 for alleged safety violations, including numerous violations at a building collapse in Holyoke, Mass. that killed one worker and...
Two Miami Adjusters Arrested in $400,000 Hurricane Fraud Case
Jul 21 2006 // Two licensed public adjusters who fraudulently collected more than $400,000 from two insurance companies by submitting bogus contractor agreements have been arrested in Miami by detectives in the Department of Financial...
ACE USA Realigns Construction Industry Practice
Jul 19 2006 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has announced that its Construction Industry Practice, formerly part of ACE Risk Management, will now become a unit of ACE Casualty Risk, and...
Cambridge General Agency Offering Market for Farm Labor Contractors
Jul 5 2006 // With the growing trend by California farmers looking to third parties to hire labor, Cambridge General Agency is offering a market to help independent agents place farm labor contractors coverage. Coverage is being offered...
Pa. must end confusion over contractors in workers’ comp
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Building a construction business
Jul 3 2006 // The artisan market is filled with small trade contractors with a couple hundred thousand dollars in receipts and relatively small premiums. Yet that has not stopped NationsBuilders Insurance Services from wanting to...
Building a construction business
Jul 3 2006 // The artisan market is filled with small trade contractors with a couple hundred thousand dollars in receipts and relatively small premiums. Yet that has not stopped NationsBuilders Insurance Services from wanting to...
The OCIP or Wrap Policy
Jul 3 2006 // Owner controlled insurance programs (OCIPs) or contractor controlled insurance programs (CCIPs), commonly referred to as “wraps,” that have been traditionally used for large, commercial projects with...
California construct defect litigation creating perfect storm
Jul 3 2006 // In The Perfect Storm, the book that inspired the movie of the same name, author Sebastian Junger defined “the perfect storm” as a tempest that may happen only once in a century, a storm created by so rare a...
Pa. must end confusion over contractors in workers’ comp
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Farms Increasingly Rely on Subcontracted Farmworkers
Jun 29 2006 // After 33 years of planting, pruning and harvesting grapes that make world-renowned wine, Jorge de Haro is about to lose the only job he’s ever had. De Haro and his co-workers at Charles Krug’s Napa Valley,...
N.Y. City, Contractors Seek Immunity from Emergency Worker Lawsuits
Jun 25 2006 // A lawyer asked a judge last Thursday to protect New York City and about 150 private contractors from lawsuits filed by thousands of emergency workers who got sick after working in the dust of the World Trade Center. The...
Bill to Regulate R.I. Contractors Filed
Jun 22 2006 // House Speaker Tempore Charlene M. Lima (D-Dist. 14, Cranston) has introduced legislation to regulate the registration of contractors in Rhode Island. The legislation (2006-H 8245) would amend the contractors’...
