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Restoration: How to Manage Cash Flow While Waiting for an Insurance Check

Levelset

Even though the insurance company isn’t your customer, the property owner may be depending on that insurance check to pay for your work. Meanwhile, you’re incurring expenses that drain your bank account, like purchasing materials and paying employees. Restoration contractors can spend a lot of time waiting for payment.

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Banks Consider Climate Change Risk for Home Loans

Pro Builder

Banks Consider Climate Change Risk for Home Loans. Banks are starting to calculate their risk exposure to climate catastrophes, and this process can be called “underwaterwriting” or “blue-lining,” depending on whether you’re looking at it from the point of view of the bank or consumer respectively. Tue, 09/21/2021 - 11:36.

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Insurance firm and two senior figures handed record data breach fines

Green Industry Professionals

Fines totalling more than £150,000 handed down over use of private detectives to illegally obtain private banking records An insurance firm and two senior figures connected with the company have been given record fines for using private detectives to illegally obtain the private banking records of a businessman they were investigating.

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What Is a Certificate of Insurance (COI) for Contractors — and When Do You Need One?

Levelset

To help your business remain viable, contractor’s insurance should be a crucial part of your financial strategy. Insurance also puts other parties’ minds at ease when they want to hire you as a specialty contractor. A certificate of insurance (COI) is a valid form used to prove that you carry the appropriate insurance policy.

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Bank Construction Manager Charged With $8 Million Theft

Construction Equipment

Postal Inspection Service , Indiana States Attorney Josh Minkler has announced federal charges against six individuals, including a former regional construction project manager of a bank, who are alleged to have operated a multi-level scheme to defraud and embezzle over $8 million from a Pennsylvania-based bank and a Pennsylvania insurance company.

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Common Construction Contractor Bookkeeping Issues With Accounts Payable

Contractor Bookkeeping

The bank wants to get paid, and unlike the contractor who is embarrassed to call an old customer, the bank is very willing to call early and often for any outstanding payments due. Accounts Payable keeps track of the bills owed to a supplier or subcontractor. Again, the banker wants to know how long it takes to pay your bills.

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UK Auditor's Report: Carillion Collapse Landed on Banks and Insurers

ENR Construction

To make the projects more bankable, the hospitals and government contributed $279 million towards construction, which was “considerably more than was usual,” according to the auditors.

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