Hong Kong Fire to Hurt Taiping Insurance Earnings, Fitch Says December 4, 2025 By Selena Li The deadly fire that ripped through seven high-rise towers in Hong Kong is expected to result in a surge in...
Hong Kong Races to Remove Scaffolding Nets Blamed for Fueling Deadly Fire December 4, 2025 By Clare Jim and Mei Mei Chu Hong Kong authorities rushed on Thursday to remove mesh netting on all buildings undergoing renovation across the city after the...
Hong Kong’s Deadliest Fire in Decades Followed a Year of Safety Complaints December 1, 2025 By Clare Jim, James Pomfret, Donny Kwok, Antoni Slodkowski and Claire Fu Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities...
Liberty Mutual Settles With Travelers Over New York Subcontractor Coverage May 30, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson Liberty Mutual reported that it has reached a settlement with Travelers Insurance in a case involving a construction firm being...
Massachusetts Firm to Pay $11M for Dumping Contaminated Fill in Rhode Island May 27, 2025 Rhode Island’s top legal chief announced last week that a Massachusetts construction company has agreed to pay $11 million to...
UK Sets Out Reforms to Address Failures in Grenfell Tower Fire February 28, 2025 By Damian Shepherd The UK set out a raft of reforms designed to improve building safety, as it aims to clamp down on...
Ghosts of Grenfell Disaster: No Penalties for UK Firms That Used Flammable Cladding January 6, 2025 By Tom Bergin When the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped...
Who Is to Blame for Deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire? September 5, 2024 By Catarina Demony and Michael Holden A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a “culmination of decades of...
UK Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry Blames All Deaths on Incompetence and Greed September 5, 2024 By Michael Holden and Catarina Demony A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings...
UK Parliament Calls in Surveyors to Test for Dangerous Concrete September 6, 2023 By Alex Wickham Tests are being carried out to determine whether the UK Houses of Parliament contain the form of crumbling concrete that...