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Massachusetts Construction Industry Confronts Drug Addiction Among Ranks
Jun 11 2019 // Massachusetts construction companies and labor unions held work stoppages at project sites across the state on Wednesday as their industry attempts to confront a high rate of fatal opioid overdoses among its ranks. Robert...
Remembering Chernobyl As Nuclear Industry Seeks Role in Future of Sustainable Energy
May 30 2019 // A television series about the world’s worst nuclear accident is refocusing millions of viewers on atomic risks just as the industry struggles to gain traction in markets flooded with renewable power. Home Box Office...
Worker Seriously Injured at Massachusetts Construction Site
May 28 2019 // A worker has been seriously injured at a construction site in Lynn, Mass. Lynn Deputy Fire Chief Arthur Richard says the 38-year-old man was taken by helicopter Friday morning to a Boston hospital after suffering the...
Growth in Construction, Freight Has Been Good News for Inland Marine Insurance
May 23 2019 // The inland marine insurance segment has grown steadily in the past decade in tandem with increases in construction spending and the transport of goods, with direct premiums written nearly doubling to $24.5 billion in 2018...
Miami Bridge Cracks Were Growing ‘Daily’ Before Deadly Collapse: Records
May 10 2019 // Just hours before a pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people at a Miami university, engineers confirmed that cracks in the concrete structure “increased in length daily,” according to meeting records...
Insurers of Collapsed Florida Bridge Builder to Pay $42M to Victims
May 8 2019 // Insurers will pay up to $42 million to surviving victims of a 2018 Florida bridge collapse and the families of those killed, under a deal announced Friday between the now-bankrupt construction company that built the...
Crane Collapse Casts Pall Over Seattle’s Rapid Growth
Apr 29 2019 // The crane collapse in the heart of Seattle’s tech hub Saturday ended four lives, cast a pall on the city’s rapid expansion and may lead to tens in millions of dollars of costs for a building that Alphabet...
Aon Combines Construction & Engineering and Inland Marine Teams into Global Unit
Apr 24 2019 // Aon plc announced it has combined its Construction & Engineering and Inland Marine teams into a single, dedicated global unit within its Reinsurance Solutions business. The new Global Construction & Inland Marine...
Massachusetts Construction Company, Owner to Pay $123K for Wage Law Violations
Apr 16 2019 // A Massachusetts construction company and its owner will pay $123,430 in restitution and penalties to settle allegations that it violated Massachusetts wage and hour laws, Attorney General Maura Healey announced. The...
Worker Killed by Falling Crane Counterweight in New York City
Apr 15 2019 // A worker was crushed to death Saturday when a crane counterweight fell on him at a lower Manhattan construction site, the third time in less than a week that a New York City construction worker was killed on the...
The Lowdown: May is National Safety Stand-Down Month
Apr 3 2019 // What’s coming up for your construction clients? The 6th annual National Safety Stand-Down takes place May 6-10, 2019. First initiated by OSHA in 2014, the week encourages construction companies of all sizes to...
A Mix of Flood Insurance Reforms
Apr 1 2019 // Conservation, CarFax-Like Disclosure, Means-Test for Rates Up for Discussion The federal flood insurance program has a knack for inspiring ideas from reformers across the political spectrum on how to improve government. If...
Conservation, CarFax-Like Disclosure, Means-Test in Mix of Flood Insurance Reforms
Mar 21 2019 // The federal flood insurance program has a knack for inspiring ideas from reformers across the political spectrum on how to improve government. If some of today’s reformers get their way, flood insurance will become a...
Burning Down a House to Show How to Build for Wildfire Defense
Mar 20 2019 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv After only a year into his job as CEO and president of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, Roy Wright is setting the place on fire. The IBHS conducted a demonstration in...
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Mar 18 2019 // National Nashville-based auto insurer The General has appointed veteran insurance executive Tony DeSantis to president and CEO, joining Chief Operating Officer Steve Tjugum as the company’s top leaders. Elicia Azali...
Mass. High Court Rules Statute of Repose Applies to Asbestos-Related Claims
Mar 18 2019 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a statute of repose barring many construction-related personal injury claims after a time limit of six years also applies to claims involving diseases with extended...
Company Faulted in Iowa Worker’s Fatal Accident
Mar 12 2019 // An Iowa safety regulator is blaming a company for not adequately training a worker who was killed in a Marshalltown construction accident. The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing to fine Bridge...
How One Agent Adopted a Nonprofit Niche
Mar 8 2019 // Phillip Hawley, president of Hawley & Associates in Bellevue, Wash., understands the power of referrals in the nonprofit insurance world. His entire agency’s book of business took root with nonprofit referrals...
Mass. High Court Rules Statute of Repose Applies to Asbestos-Related Claims
Mar 6 2019 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a statute of repose barring many construction-related personal injury claims after a time limit of six years also applies to claims involving diseases with extended...
One Dead, Two Injured After Beams Fall at MIT Construction Site in Massachusetts
Mar 4 2019 // The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office says one of three workers injured at an MIT building construction site has died. The Cambridge Fire Department tweeted Thursday that temporary support beams fell on the...
