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General Liability vs. Professional Liability: What’s the Difference?

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When it comes to protecting your contracting business from claims and lawsuits, it can be tough to know what type of insurance you should purchase. Liability insurance protects your business against claims for damages caused by you and your workers, if you have any. General liability insurance.

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#109:  Liability Insurers' Duty to Defend

NH Construction Law

When a contractor or subcontractor is sued for defective workmanship, one of his first thoughts is likely to be whether the damages are covered by his liability insurance. But if the plaintiff’s complaint also alleges some resulting property damage, however minor, the insurer is obliged to defend the lawsuit.

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Subcontractor Insurance: 7 Policies Subs Should Consider for Their Business

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Business insurance can help mitigate occurrences or disasters that can severely impact or destroy the good standing of your business. Let’s take a look a subcontractor insurance: when it’s needed, what happens if a sub goes uninsured, and what policies subs can use to protect their businesses from risk.

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Carpenter’s Insurance: Who Needs It & Why

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Insurance is one part of a strategy to keep your carpentry business financially healthy. To minimize any financial damage, a comprehensive carpenter’s insurance plan is a smart bet. . What is carpenter insurance? Does a carpenter need insurance? Insurance serves another purpose.

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Completed Operations: A Contractor’s Guide to Coverage, Cost, & More

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If a contractor’s work fails after a project is complete, completed operations insurance can help cover some of the expenses. It is sold as an extension to your general liability insurance policy and may be required by the state you work in or the project owner. What is completed operations insurance? not in progress).

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Which Insurance Carrier Is Responsible for Damages on a Construction Project? Depends.

Best Practices Construction Law

There are multiple types of insurance coverage for the various risks on a construction project. However, when there are multiple insurance carriers covering the same risk (i.e., However, when there are multiple insurance carriers covering the same risk (i.e., In a recent case, Cincinnati Insurance Co.

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

Best Practice Job Order Contracting. The DOD has long been recognized as the leader in best practice job order contracting. Thus while County, State, and Local Governments in general have a ways to go in deploying Best Practice Job Order Contracting, the potential benefit are certainly worth the effort. Note that for.

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