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How Dash Cams Help Your Construction Company

Construction Business Owner

The goal is to identify and address dangerous behaviors before an accident happens, protecting your company’s equipment from damage … your employees and others on the road from harm … your company from costly litigation … your insurance rates from skyrocketing … and your brand name from bad publicity. In a recent J.

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A Plumbing Contractor’s Guide to Insurance Coverage

Levelset

Plumbing contractors should include business insurance as an integral part of their financial strategy. With numerous policies available, the plumbing contractor’s insurance landscape offers many ways for you to protect your physical and financial business assets. What is plumber’s insurance? Worker injury.

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What is Experience Modification Rate (EMR), and How Does it Impact Prequalification?

Safety Services Company

Insurance companies use the number to assess the cost of injuries and future risks. Your company has filed one or more workers’ compensation claims. When this happens, your insurer raises your insurance premium to mitigate risk. you will pay about 20% more for insurance. If that number spikes, the reason is simple.

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#85:  Who Decides Arbitrability?

NH Construction Law

455 (2019). A clear and unmistakable delegation clause is enforceable even where a party sues on a claim that is obviously not within the scope of what was agreed to be arbitrable; the opposing party can still invoke the delegation clause to insist that the arbitrator, not the court, decide its arbitrability. Henry Schein, Inc.

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7 Ways to Improve Construction Site Safety

Levelset

In 2019, the construction industry accounted for about 20% of all work-related fatalities in the U.S. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), almost 3 out of 100 full-time workers were injured on the job in 2019. Work with your insurance provider. Common jobsite safety risks.

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#76:  Indemnity and the Statute of Repose

NH Construction Law

In this respect it is unlike the statute of limitations, RSA 508:4 , whose three-year clock does not start ticking until the claim “accrues” -- which may be more than three years after the breach of duty occurs if the breach and resulting injury were neither discovered nor reasonably discoverable until later. 341, 347 (1987).

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#131:  Applying Statutes of Limitations in Arbitration Proceedings

NH Construction Law

The New Hampshire Supreme Court implicitly assumed applicability of the statute of limitations to arbitration proceedings in Metropolitan Property and Liability Insurance Co. 3d 411, 424 (2019) (holding that the term “action” means “the steps by which a party seeks to enforce any right in a court ”).