Latest Contractors Headlines
All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New York State to Launch Bid Bond Program
Feb 19 2008 // New York’s minority- and women-owned businesses could have an easier time getting surety bonds needed for state and private contracting work under an ambitious program that will launch in New York City later this...
Feds Propose $328,500 in Fines for Alabama Contractor
Feb 19 2008 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $328,500 in fines for Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Gilco Contracting Inc. The company allegedly exposed workers to serious and repeated safety hazards at two job...
Oregon Requires CGL to Include Completed Operations Coverage
Jan 27 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...
Small Big Dig Contractor Criticizes $458M Deal with Giant Bechtel
Jan 25 2008 // Prosecutors reached a $458 million settlement with contractors over tunnel defects that caused a fatal 2006 accident but a small contractor that isn’t involved in the agreement says it unfairly spares the most...
$458M Big Dig Settlement Reached; Criminal Charges Dropped
Jan 23 2008 // The main management consultant and contractor on Boston’s $15 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig) has agreed to pay more than $407 million to resolve civil and criminal liabilities in connection with the...
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...
