Latest Contractors Headlines
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Uber to Settle Suit for $100M, Drivers Stay Independent Contractors
Apr 22 2016 // Uber has agreed to pay up to $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit which resolves a major challenge to its business model by allowing the ridesharing service to keep its California and Massachusetts drivers as...
Uber Settlement Doesn’t Settle Gig Economy’s Independent Contractor vs. Employee Dispute
Apr 22 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. resolved the biggest threat to its business by settling with California drivers suing to be treated more like traditional employees, a move that could have broad-ranging implications for companies...
Commentary: Navigating Florida’s Comparative Fault Statute
Apr 20 2016 // During the life of a Florida claim, risk managers, adjusters or clients often ask, “What kind of jurisdiction is Florida for fault?” And all too often, the answer given since 2006 is, “purely...
Employee Vs. Contractor Debate to Get Even Hotter: RIMS
Apr 18 2016 // The employee vs. contractor debate has the potential to have a major impact on the insurance industry, according to a pair of experts speaking on the topic at a recent conference in San Diego, Calif. It’s estimated...
RIMS 2016: Employee vs. Contractor Debate to Become Even Hotter
Apr 11 2016 // The employee vs. contractor debate has the potential to have a major impact on the insurance industry, according to a pair of experts speaking on the topic on Monday in San Diego, Calif. It’s estimated there are 10...
The ‘Primary and Noncontributory’ Tool Or Why this Requirement Should Disappear
Mar 29 2016 // Upper tier contractors seek to avoid, through the use of various transfer mechanisms, the financial costs that can result from bodily injury or property damage to a third party caused or contributed to by other parties...
California Bill Would Enable Independent Contractors to Unionize
Mar 21 2016 // A longshot proposal introduced in mid-March would make California the first state to allow rideshare drivers and all other independent contractors to unionize. The legislation came one week after the U.S. Chamber of...
California Bill Would Enable Independent Contractors to Unionize
Mar 11 2016 // A longshot proposal introduced this week would make California the first state to allow rideshare drivers and all other independent contractors to unionize. The legislation comes one week after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Travelers Enhances Contractors Professional, Pollution Liability Coverage
Mar 6 2016 // Travelers has enhanced its product offering for contractors by combining professional liability and pollution liability coverages. The product now offers additional protection against environmental damage caused by design...
Catastrophe Response Team Works to Protect Storm Victims
Mar 4 2016 // After tornadoes ravaged the Dallas area in late December, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) and Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Fraud Unit worked together to establish a new disaster outreach program, called...
BHSI Launches Professional & Pollution Liability Coverage for Contractors
Feb 23 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has launched Contractor’s Protective, Professional and Pollution (CP3) Liability Policy, which is available on a primary and excess basis for practice or project-specific...
IIABNY Opposes Expanding Wrap-Ups for Public Projects
Feb 22 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2016-17 fiscal year budget plan includes a proposal to expand the ability of some government entities to use owner-controlled insurance programs, also known as wrap-ups, for public works...
How Employer Joint Liability Is Changing
Feb 18 2016 // Businesses known for their uniforms are worried about lawyers in business suits in the wake of a change in the nation’s labor laws affecting their liability for employment practices. The change could unravel the...
IIABNY Voices Opposition to Expanding Wrap-Ups for Public Works Projects
Feb 10 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2016-17 fiscal year budget plan includes a proposal to expand the ability of certain governmental entities to use wrap-ups for public works projects — but an insurance...
Florida Fights Back Against Assignment of Benefits Abuse
Feb 8 2016 // Florida insurers, consumer and insurance advocates, as well as regulators, are hoping 2016 may finally be the year that legislators address the misuse of assignment of benefits (AOB) for water loss claims that they say has...
Contractors Get Prison Time for 2013 Philadelphia Thrift Store Collapse
Jan 12 2016 // As he drank coffee at his job site in the mornings, demolition subcontractor Sean Benschop often talked with Borbor Davis, who worked at the adjacent Salvation Army in downtown Philadelphia. The men, both immigrants, asked...
New Look in Franchise Liability
Jan 11 2016 // Businesses known for their uniforms are worried about lawyers in business suits in the wake of a change in the nation’s labor laws affecting their liability for employment practices. The change could unravel the...
National Insurance Crime Bureau Warns of Post-Disaster Scams in Texas
Jan 7 2016 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) announced it is working with law enforcement agencies, the Texas Department of Insurance and insurance companies to warn Texas storm victims about post-disaster rebuilding...
Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Again to Offer Free Fraud Protection in CA
Jan 6 2016 // Rocklin, CA, January 6, 2016- Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) will be offering Fraud Protection at no extra charge to all California-based contractors that purchase their Victory...
Uber Winning Support for Classifying Drivers as Contractors
Dec 21 2015 // State legislators in Ohio and Florida are moving ahead with regulations governing Uber and other ride services that would designate all drivers as independent contractors, bolstering a critical but much-disputed aspect of...
