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Texas High Court Sides with Lloyd’s in Contractual Liability Exclusion Case
Jun 7 2010 // The Texas Supreme Court has found in favor of an excess insurance provider in a case involving the contractual liability exclusion in a Commercial General Liability (CGL) policy. In 1993, Dallas Area Rapid Transit...
Mississippi Home’s Concrete Structure Cuts Insurance Cost
Jun 7 2010 // The Dubuisson home will resemble others in the traditional Pass Christian neighborhood when construction is complete this summer yet underneath will be a superstructure built to withstand 200 mile-per-hour winds and cut...
Hiscox USA Adds Underwriters to Los Angeles Regional Office
Jun 4 2010 // Hiscox USA has expanded its business in its Los Angeles, California office with the addition of underwriters in the allied healthcare professional and general liability; architects, engineers and construction managers...
AIR Analyzes Agatha; Despite Damages Insured Losses Not ‘Significant’
Jun 2 2010 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide described the early tropical storm Agatha as “short-lived, but deadly,” as it “wreaked havoc in Central America over the weekend. Agatha benefitted “from...
Two Falls in Two Days for New York City Construction Workers
Jun 1 2010 // One worker is dead and another injured after two separate incidents at New York City construction sites last week. In Brooklyn, a construction worker at a building going up died after he lost his balance and fell about 50...
Kaplan to Head Construction Practice at XL
May 21 2010 // XL Insurance appointed Gary S. Kaplan to the newly created position of executive vice president and North America Construction leader. Kaplan, who will be based in New York, joins XL Insurance from Zurich North America...
Mississippi Home’s Concrete Structure Beats Winds, Cuts Insurance Cost
May 19 2010 // The Dubuisson home will resemble others in the traditional Pass Christian neighborhood when construction is complete this summer yet underneath will be a superstructure built to withstand 200 mile-per-hour winds and cut...
South Carolina Firefighters Urge Lawmakers to Keep Sprinkler Code
May 13 2010 // South Carolina firefighters urged legislators this week to uphold a construction code requiring that new homes be equipped with fire sprinklers in a debate that pits safety against cost. They urged senators to defeat a...
Louisiana to Borrow $320M for New Construction Spending
May 6 2010 // Louisiana will borrow $320 million next year for state construction projects, far less than needed to fulfill the billions of dollars in requests from lawmakers and state agencies, the governor’s top budget adviser...
Chartis Introduces One-Stop Solution for Small Business Construction
May 4 2010 // Chartis has introduced Construction Solutions for Small Business, a multi-line coverage approach to construction-related insurance products. This new practice will offer the full product set currently available from the...
Animal Workers in Peril
May 3 2010 // The Dangers of Working With Wild Animals In 2010, Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.,was grabbed by a killer whale as she stood in a wading area at the edge of his tank. Reports said she was grabbed by...
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May 3 2010 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., hired Keith W. Newell as senior vice president, Southern California Construction Practice Leader in its Los Angeles office. Newell will expand...
Colorado Bill May Drive Contractors Insurers Out of State
Apr 28 2010 // The Colorado House of Representatives has passed a bill that may have the unintended consequence of driving insurers that provide contractors coverage out of state, according to the Professional Independent Insurance...
Traditional Property Policies Can Leave Green Buildings Exposed
Apr 8 2010 // With the U.S. Green Building Council forecasting growth in the green building market to double between now and 2013, agents and brokers can expect to see increasing client demand for green insurance coverage. Because...
Heffernan Insurance Hires Newell for Southern Calif. Construction Practice
Apr 7 2010 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., has hired Keith W. Newell as senior vice president, Southern California Construction Practice Leader in its Los Angeles office. Newell will expand...
Green Building Movement Raises Some Construction Defect, Claims Concern
Apr 7 2010 // New insurance products to protect innovative green construction products such as wind turbines, fuel cells and vegetative roofs are on the rise. But even those closest to the situation admit to being a bit, well, green,...
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Apr 5 2010 // New York-based USI Holdings Corp. has named Sandra Usleman, former president of USI’s Austin, Texas, operating company in the Southwest region, as senior vice president and chief sales officer. Other changes in...
Beauvais to Head Ironshore’s Construction Practice in U.S.
Apr 5 2010 // Specialty insurer Ironshore Inc. announced that Ben Beauvais will head the company’s domestic construction practice within its U.S. Specialty Casualty division, including the operations of IronBuilt. Beauvais, based...
200-Plus Construction Workers Denied Fair Wages by Drywall Co.
Apr 5 2010 // Calif. Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that his office has secured back pay for more than 200 workers who were “routinely denied” fair wages and overtime pay by Charles Evleth Construction Inc.,...
Four Injured in Partial Collapse at Brooklyn Construction Site
Mar 31 2010 // Authorities are investigating a partial collapse at a construction site in Brooklyn where four workers were injured, one seriously. The Fire Department of New York and the Buildings Department were investigating the...
