Latest Contractors Headlines
All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Contractors’ Pollution Liability
Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Victor O. Schinnerer & Co.’s contractors program recently released new 2004 editions of its three policy forms: a stand-alone professional liability policy, a stand-alone pollution incident...
Contractors & Artisan Excess
Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Salmen Insurance Services announced it now offers excess liability coverage. Writing over “A,” “B,” nonrated and RRG underlying policies. Contractors and artisan GL only. Dollars:...
Big Hammer, Small Nail
Aug 23 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection. Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
Contractors Program
Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Victor O. Schinnerer & Company’s contractors program recently released new 2004 editions of its three policy forms: a stand-alone professional liability policy, a stand-alone pollution...
Two Suspects Still at Large in California Contractor Bond Fraud Case
Aug 17 2004 // Authorities are seeking two men suspected of participating in a scam that used phony insurance certificates and fake contractor bonds to win bids on public works projects. Three other suspects have already been arrested...
Prime Offers Insurance Coverage for Contractors
Aug 10 2004 // Sandy, Utah-based Prime Insurance Syndicate Inc. recently announced it is offering excess and surplus lines products to contractors and developers including contractor’s liability coverage for property/casualty in...
Artisan Contractor GL
Aug 9 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Lemac General Agency in Orange, Calif., announced that Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. has returned to the CG0001 policy form for “True Artisans.” A “True Artisan” is a tradesperson who...
Charity Golf Outings Putt Focus on Helping Hand
Aug 9 2004 // It takes a special breed of individual to devote their business career to helping people in a time of great loss. The costs of doing so are both emotional and physical—emotional stress from dealing with unexpected,...
Reduce Your Costs by Sharing Expenses with Competitors
Aug 9 2004 // There are multiple ways to grow your agency’s bottom line. The most exciting way is, of course, to sell more policies. You logically devote most of your energies to this essential activity because it’s the best...
Big Hammer, Small Nail: Small Contractors and Workers’ Comp
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection. Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
New Specialty Trades Program Looks to Exploit Market Opportunity
Jul 19 2004 // Litigation around the country concerning contractors’ liability for construction defects discovered after operations are completed has made coverage very difficult to come by for specialty trade contractors, but it...
Online Indications for Artisan Contractors
Jul 19 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers Inc. has re-released online rating indications for artisan contractors, general liability. Brokers can get immediate indications for several classes of...
Construction Defects Burning a Hole through the Residential Contractors Market
Jul 19 2004 // Whether real or imagined, the threat of construction defects litigation has burned through the residential contractors liability insurance market like a California wildfire. Over the past couple of years, contractors and...
Big Hammer, Small Nail: Small Contractors and Workers’ Comp
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection. A small contractor today struggling with workers’...
Big Hammer, Small Nail: Small Contractors and Workers’ Comp
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection. Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
Contractors Program Seeks to Fill Market Need
Jul 19 2004 // Litigation around the country concerning contractors’ liability for construction defects discovered after operations are completed has made coverage very difficult to come by for specialty trade contractors, but it...
Big Hammer, Small Nail: Small Contractors and Workers’ Comp
Jul 19 2004 // Some contractors are forgoing coverage altogether and sometimes find themselves shut down by state investigators enforcing rules on proper insurance protection. Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation...
Golf, Politics, and Insurance
Jul 19 2004 // Summer is just flying by us, and I hope you are enjoying every minute! We here at Insurance Journal are very busy in planning for our upcoming issues. In fact, as we put this issue to bed, production starts right up again...
Fla. Contractor Pleads Guilty to Grand Theft
Jul 12 2004 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist announced that White Construction Company, a major road builder headquartered in Chiefland, Fla., has pled guilty to six counts of Grand Theft. As a result of the plea agreement,...
Specialty Trade Contractors
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Construction Insurance Solutions (CIS), a new group of territorial program administrators, introduced a program for specialty trade contractors involved in commercial and residential construction. The...
