Latest Contractors Headlines
All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Protecting residential construction risks with OCIPs
Jul 24 2006 // Residential construction throughout the country surged to an all-time high in 2005, according to the United States Commerce Department. And though economists forecasted a slowing of construction and sales activity in 2006,...
Contractor Fined in Mass. Building Collapse
Jul 21 2006 // Federal workplace safety regulators have fined a demolition contractor more than $164,000 for alleged safety violations, including numerous violations at a building collapse in Holyoke, Mass. that killed one worker and...
Two Miami Adjusters Arrested in $400,000 Hurricane Fraud Case
Jul 21 2006 // Two licensed public adjusters who fraudulently collected more than $400,000 from two insurance companies by submitting bogus contractor agreements have been arrested in Miami by detectives in the Department of Financial...
ACE USA Realigns Construction Industry Practice
Jul 19 2006 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has announced that its Construction Industry Practice, formerly part of ACE Risk Management, will now become a unit of ACE Casualty Risk, and...
Cambridge General Agency Offering Market for Farm Labor Contractors
Jul 5 2006 // With the growing trend by California farmers looking to third parties to hire labor, Cambridge General Agency is offering a market to help independent agents place farm labor contractors coverage. Coverage is being offered...
Pa. must end confusion over contractors in workers’ comp
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Building a construction business
Jul 3 2006 // The artisan market is filled with small trade contractors with a couple hundred thousand dollars in receipts and relatively small premiums. Yet that has not stopped NationsBuilders Insurance Services from wanting to...
Building a construction business
Jul 3 2006 // The artisan market is filled with small trade contractors with a couple hundred thousand dollars in receipts and relatively small premiums. Yet that has not stopped NationsBuilders Insurance Services from wanting to...
The OCIP or Wrap Policy
Jul 3 2006 // Owner controlled insurance programs (OCIPs) or contractor controlled insurance programs (CCIPs), commonly referred to as “wraps,” that have been traditionally used for large, commercial projects with...
California construct defect litigation creating perfect storm
Jul 3 2006 // In The Perfect Storm, the book that inspired the movie of the same name, author Sebastian Junger defined “the perfect storm” as a tempest that may happen only once in a century, a storm created by so rare a...
Pa. must end confusion over contractors in workers’ comp
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Farms Increasingly Rely on Subcontracted Farmworkers
Jun 29 2006 // After 33 years of planting, pruning and harvesting grapes that make world-renowned wine, Jorge de Haro is about to lose the only job he’s ever had. De Haro and his co-workers at Charles Krug’s Napa Valley,...
N.Y. City, Contractors Seek Immunity from Emergency Worker Lawsuits
Jun 25 2006 // A lawyer asked a judge last Thursday to protect New York City and about 150 private contractors from lawsuits filed by thousands of emergency workers who got sick after working in the dust of the World Trade Center. The...
Bill to Regulate R.I. Contractors Filed
Jun 22 2006 // House Speaker Tempore Charlene M. Lima (D-Dist. 14, Cranston) has introduced legislation to regulate the registration of contractors in Rhode Island. The legislation (2006-H 8245) would amend the contractors’...
State Fund Receives Nearly $600,000 in Restitution from San Diego County Contractor
Jun 20 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has received restitution of $599,817 from the owner of a San Diego framing company convicted of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Robert H. Rodriguez, 50, of...
Exciting News! New Commercial Contractor Facility!
Jun 12 2006 // Las Vegas, NV – The principals of Summit Insurance Services and HDR Insurance Services have formed a joint venture, Pinnacle Insurance Program Managers, Inc., effective June 1st 2006. Pinnacle’s business...
Conn. Asks XL Insurance to Review Use of Defaulted Contractor
Jun 7 2006 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has asked XL Specialty Insurance Co. of Stamford, the insurer of former road contractor L.G. DeFelice, to reconsider its decision to assign two unfinished state Department of...
Sloan-Mason Offers Utility Contractors Coverage in Florida
Jun 7 2006 // Sloan-Mason has announced it is targeting Florida domiciled underground utility contractors, including sewer and water main construction companies. The San Diego-based surplus lines broker has non-resident licenses in a...
CompPAC Trust of Texas Expands Work Comp Eligibility to Artisan Contractors
Jun 6 2006 // The CompPAC Trust of Texas, a workers’ compensation self-insurance group administered by First Cardinal of Texas Ltd., reported it has received approval from the Texas Department of Insurance to expand its list of...
Case Law Watch
Jun 5 2006 // ArkansasWorkers’ Compensation Jones Brothers Inc. v. Whitlock, et al. (Ark. May 4, 2005) Prime contractor liable for workers’ compensation benefits owed to employee of uninsured subcontractor: The Supreme Court...
