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Daley Brother Made $400,000 Brokering City Contractors’ Insurance for Near North, Group Alleges

Mar 17 2003 // A group funded by suburban Chicago mayors who oppose the expansion of O’Hare International Airport says it will release evidence today to show that Cook County Commissioner and mayoral brother John Daley made up to...

PIACT Supports Competition for Municipally Funded Construction Projects

Mar 14 2003 // Steven Imbriaco, government affairs counsel for the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc., told the Insurance & Real Estate Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly during a public hearing on Tuesday...

GL for Contractors/Roofers

Feb 25 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: American Pacific General Agency in Woodland Hills, Calif. has a general liability market for contractors and roofers. Endorsements available. Business by appointments only. Dollars: Policy limits –...

Contractor Arrested for Premium Fraud

Feb 24 2003 // Fraud investigators of CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office arrested Thomas Turner, 57, of Fremont, Calif. The San Mateo County...

Wash. L&I Cracks Down on Unregistered Residential Wood Framers

Feb 12 2003 // Inspectors from the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) will be out in force in Pierce, Jefferson, Kitsap and Clallam counties this month, making sure residential wood framers are working safely and are...

Exclusive Agents Feel the Squeeze

Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...

Exclusive Agents Feel the Squeeze

Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...

General Contractors

Jan 30 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: Anderson & Murison Inc. has a program for general contractors doing commercial and apartments. No dwellings or condos. Blanket additional insured CG2010 11/85. Per project aggregate. Waver of...

New Market: General Contractors/Commercial & Apartments

Jan 10 2003 // Anderson & Murison Inc. has a program for general contractors doing commercial and apartments. No dwellings or condos. Blanket additional insured CG2010 11/85. Per project aggregate. Waver of subrogation. This is a...

Residential Contractors

Dec 19 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Lemac & Associates is offering a new market to write residential contractors engaged in the construction of tract homes. The new market does not have a strong appetite for subcontractors involved in...

Environmental Consultants/ Contractors

Dec 19 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Professional Insurance Resources of Dallas has a new market available for Professional and General Liability for environmental consultants and contractors. Endorsements include waiver from subrogation...

N. Dak. Construction Compliance Task Force Deemed a Success, Program Will Continue

Dec 10 2002 // A report, issued jointly by North Dakota’s Workers Compensation Executive Director and CEO Brent Edison and Secretary of State Al Jaeger, indicates that the inter-agency effort, the Construction Compliance Task...

Builders, Contractors

Nov 20 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: APG Insurance Services is offering a program for GL for builders and contractors. Business is appointments only. Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000. Minimum premiums of $3,500 and $10,000 for...

MS/B and Alacrity Services LLC Form Alliance

Nov 14 2002 // Atlanta-based provider of structural loss estimates and direct repair programs for property insurers, Alacrity Services LLC—owner of ptc-NET(TM)—and Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B), a provider of building cost...

Ohio Insurance Department Provides Claim Tips for Storm Victims

Nov 13 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has issued a series of “tips” to help property owners filing claims resulting from the devastating tornadoes that struck the state over the...

No Duty to Investigate Before Terminating Agent

Nov 11 2002 // In Texas Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Sears, the Texas Supreme Court addressed what duties an insurance company owes an independent agent when terminating an “at will” relationship. No. 01-0851 (Tex., Aug. 30,...

GL/Contractors & Builders

Oct 22 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: APG Insurance Services is offering a GL program for contractors and builders. Available on an appointment basis. Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000; minimum premiums of $3,500. Carrier: BCIC. States...

King v. Dallas Fire: Occurrence From Another Angle

Sep 16 2002 // On August 29, 2002, the Texas Supreme Court issued its revised opinion in King v. Dallas Fire Insurance Company (No. 00-1152, Tex. Sup. Ct., Aug. 29, 2002), withdrawing and replacing its previous opinion of May 30, 2002,...

Garamendi Does Labor Day Visits; Mendoza Meets with Brokers, Contractors

Sep 16 2002 // Democratic Insurance Commissioner candidate John Garamendi joined thousands of workers by participating in a number of Labor Day activities throughout California earlier this month. “I am pleased once again to share...

Travelers Furnishes New CD To Construction Clients For One-Stop Risk Management

Aug 27 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty announced a new version of its “Construction Risk Management Tool Kit” CD-ROM, designed to help improve contractor clients’ loss experience. “We believe it to be one of...