Latest Contractors Headlines
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Barometer Shows Premiums on the Decline for Contractors Market
Aug 22 2005 // MarketScout began tracking property and casualty pricing trends in 2001 in an effort to share the pricing results of insurance placements related to their 50,000 member agent network. The monthly market trends are...
Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Acts and Their Impact on Insurance Coverage: A Comparative Analysis
Aug 22 2005 // In the oilfield, operators typically enter into Master Service Agreements with various contractors who supply services and materials needed in connection with the many and varied oilfield operations. The Master Service...
Negotiating the Highs and Lows in the Oil and Gas Market
Aug 22 2005 // Everything’s negotiable. If that’s not the key operational phrase in the oil and gas sector–both in terms of oil and gas production and insuring that risk–then it comes very close. Contracts rule in...
Survey: Competition, Capacity Characterize Surety Bond Market
Aug 22 2005 // Although today’s construction industry is coming out of a trench and contractors are intensifying competition by bidding low to get enough work to utilize available capacity, an increase in private sector...
Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Acts and Their Impact on Insurance Coverage
Aug 22 2005 // In the oilfield, operators typically enter into Master Service Agreements with various contractors who supply services and materials needed in connection with the many and varied oilfield operations. The MSAs usually...
Negotiating the Highs and Lows in the Oil and Gas Market
Aug 22 2005 // Everything’s negotiable. If that’s not the key operational phrase in the oil and gas sector-both in terms of oil and gas production and insuring that risk-then it comes very close. Contracts rule in the...
Negotiating the Highs and Lows in the Oil and Gas Market
Aug 22 2005 // Everything’s negotiable. If that’s not the key operational phrase in the oil and gas sector-both in terms of oil and gas production and insuring that risk-then it comes very close. Contracts rule in the...
Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Acts and Their Impact on Insurance Coverage: A Comparative Analysis
Aug 22 2005 // In the oilfield, operators typically enter into Master Service Agreements with various contractors who supply services and materials needed in connection with the many and varied oilfield operations. The Master Service...
Bare market for residential
Aug 22 2005 // As construction development in the United States reaches an all time peak, with overall spending up 7.5 percent in 2005 compared to 2004, agents and brokers writing contractor business are having a tough time locating...
N.D. Officials Crack Down on Uninsured Contractors in Wake of July Hailstorm
Aug 16 2005 // In the aftermath of last month’s destructive hailstorms, North Dakota’s Construction Compliance Task Force has begun aggressively checking construction sites to ensure that contractors are insured and...
Charity Outings Tee-Off Nationwide
Aug 8 2005 // If you believe the stereotype, insurance adjusters love golf. When I first began working in the insurance claims industry 15 years ago, I was told a joke about the industry: Three 10-year old boys are bragging about their...
Lemac General Agency Offers Online Artisan Contractor Program
Aug 5 2005 // David Gorin, president of Lemac General Agency in Orange, California announced that Lemac producers can write Artisans online. Producers can submit an application online at www.lemacga.com, and they also have the option to...
Calif. Ordinance Requires Contractors to Reveal 19th Cent. Slave Trade Ties
Jul 25 2005 // Contractors doing business with Oakland have until Oct. 1 to disclose whether they participated in the 19th-century slave trade, under an ordinance adopted by the City Council. Companies who provide insurance, financial...
Wash. Contractor Cited for Fraud and Safety Violations
Jul 20 2005 // In a combined effort to combat fraud and protect workers from serious injury and death, the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has cited a Tacoma roofing contractor for workers’ compensation...
N.D. AG Warns Dickinson Homeowners of Unlicensed Contractors
Jul 19 2005 // North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and Secretary of State Al Jaeger are reminding homeowners of the need for caution when hiring contractors to complete home repairs. Severe weather damage provides an...
Okla. AG Says CNC Cards Good Until They Expire
Jul 18 2005 // At the request of Oklahoma State Senators Cliff A. Aldridge and Patrick Anderson, state Attorney General Drew Edmondson clarified June 29 that Certificates of Non-Coverage (CNC) cards issued to independent contractors...
OSHA Cites Mass. Contractor in Deadly Crane Collapse
Jul 13 2005 // A federal agency that oversees workplace safety blamed a contractor for a shipyard crane accident that in January killed two workers, including one from New Hampshire. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Only 40 Percent of Fla. Roofing Contractors Have Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Jul 9 2005 // Rising costs of construction materials and more expensive workers’ compensation insurance are causing roofing contractors to use more uninsured workers according to Department of Financial Services Office of...
Contractor Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has pled guilty to workers’ comp premium fraud and other charges. Michael Louis Curran pled guilty on June 8 to one felony...
Aon Construction Group’s Nolan Named President of Dallas/Fort Worth Construction Financial Management Association
Jul 1 2005 // For the first time in its 20-year history, the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) has elected an insurance broker to the position of president. Aon Corporation announced...
