Latest Contractors Headlines
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Cambridge General Adds Harvesting Contractors Program in California
May 14 2008 // Cambridge General is now accepting applications for harvesting contractors. This program was developed for fruit or vegetable contractors harvesting by hand in addition to those harvesting use farm machinery. To be...
FedEx Holder Sues Board over Contractor Classification Problems
May 12 2008 // A shareholder of FedEx Corp filed a lawsuit against the package delivery company’s board last Thursday alleging the directors exposed the company to damages by misclassifying employees as contractors. A FedEx...
National Advantage Insurance Adds Artisan/Service Contractor Market
May 5 2008 // National Advantage Insurance Services Inc. (NAIS) has added a new nonadmitted market for artisan/service contractor general liability in California. Target classes include but are limited to commercial building...
General Contractors Not Liable For Inspections, Rules Conn. High Court
May 5 2008 // A Connecticut general contractor who delegates special inspections of all steel welding work as required by the state’s building code to a subcontractor is not liable for injuries resulting from an accident that...
N.Y. Landlord Liable for Injury to Tenant’s Contractor Under ‘Strict Liability’
May 5 2008 // New York’s highest court has ruled that a Manhattan high-rise owner is liable for injuries to a tenant’s workman, even though the worker was hired without the landlord’s consent in violation of the...
N.Y. High Court Says Landlord Liable for Injury to Tenant’s Contractor
Apr 28 2008 // New York’s highest court ruled that a Manhattan high-rise owner is liable for injuries to a tenant’s workman, even though the worker was hired without the landlord’s consent in violation of the lease. The...
Louisiana Keeps Pressure on Road Home Contractor
Apr 28 2008 // Even as it met a deadline to avoid a $3.3 million performance penalty, the private company that runs Louisiana’s Road Home program faced a new $1.65 million fine if it did not meet additional benchmarks designed to...
Doan Promoted to VP in McQueary Henry Bowles Troy Bond Department
Apr 25 2008 // Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT) promoted Donnie Doan to vice president in the firm’s bond department. In this role, he is responsible for leading, planning, organizing and budgeting for the bond...
Agents in the East Find Recession Hurts Others More
Apr 22 2008 // Insurance agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic are worried about how their customers and they will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow. “An agent’s business is a direct reflection of...
Case Watch
Apr 21 2008 // Additional Insured Evanston Insurance Co. v. Atofina Petrochemicals Inc., Texas Feb. 15, 2008. Contract provision requiring that refinery “shall be named as additional insured” sufficient to trigger additional...
Contractors and Certificates of Liability Insurance
Apr 21 2008 // Your E&O claim waiting to happen Certificates — not again. Haven’t we heard enough about this topic? Apparently not. Certificates are issued for all sorts of insureds, but contracting risk is the most...
Conn. Supreme Court: General Contractor Not Liable for Inspections
Apr 15 2008 // A Connecticut general contractor who delegates special inspections of all steel welding work as required by the state’s building code to a subcontractor is not liable for injuries resulting from an accident that...
Builders & Tradesmen’s Offers Artisan Contractor Program in Washington
Apr 11 2008 // Builders & Trademen’s Insurance Services Inc. of Washougal, Wash., has a new online artisan contractor program available in Washington. The admitted program has 44 eligable classes. New residential work is...
Agents in the East Find Recession Hurts Others More Than Them
Apr 7 2008 // How agents from Mass. to Virginia are faring as the economy slows, competition quickens and government changes the rules Agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states are worried about how they and their customers...
Southeast Agents Fear Recession as Construction Woes Continue
Apr 7 2008 // Shrinking payrolls and receipts exacerbate soft market effects of lower premiums and commissions Southeast insurance agents do not all agree the economy is in a recession or on the causes of the slumping economy, but they...
London American Risk Specialists, Inc Announces a New A.M. Best Rated A XV Admitted Market for Energy Contractors
Mar 31 2008 // March 31, 2008 – London American Risk Specialists, Inc an independently owned & operated surplus lines/ wholesale brokerage firm, headquartered in Houston, TX, announces a new A.M. Best Rated A XV admitted...
Contractor Killed at West Virginia Coal Preparation Plant
Mar 19 2008 // A contractor died in an accident at a West Virginia coal preparation plant. State Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training Director Ron Wooten says 47-year-old John G. Workman was pinned under a 475-pound metal...
Report: Change in Contractors, Computer System Hindered La. Citizens
Mar 10 2008 // A Louisiana Insurance Department report shows that the state-sponsored Citizens Property Insurance Corp. had trouble handling claims for hurricanes Katrina and Rita because it was switching to new outside contractors and...
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OSHA Fines Contractors $464K for Safety Hazards in WTC Tower Fire
Feb 21 2008 // The federal government fined two contractors hired to dismantle a condemned ground zero skyscraper $464,500 on Tuesday for more than 40 safety hazards at the building, where two firefighters died in a fire last summer. The...
