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Subcontractor Insurance: 7 Policies Subs Should Consider for Their Business

Levelset

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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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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Insurance for HVAC Contractors: What It Covers and Why You Need It

Levelset

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) contractors must protect their business property while reducing the odds that a job-related accident or injury could financially harm their business. HVAC contractor insurance is the primary way to help protect your financial interest if things go wrong on the job.

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Direct Contractors In California Should Take Steps Now To Reduce Exposure For Unpaid Wages By Subcontractors

Construction and Infrastructure Law

The new law puts the onus on direct contractors to not only monitor their own payroll practices, but to ensure that their subcontractors and lower tier subcontractors are engaging in proper payroll practices. AB 1701 does not afford individual workers a direct right to sue contractors. Section 2810.3

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Construction Law: May 2024

Construction Law

Contractor insolvency Where there is a (living) will, there is a way Isobel Moorhouse and Jane Hughes of Trowers & Hamlins LLP explain what a ‘Living Will’ is, and ask whether the concept be adapted by employers to apply to contractor insolvencies?

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What Are the Legal Safeguards for Getting Back to Work?

Pro Builder

As builders and trade contractors start to get back on track following the impact of COVID-19 and its restrictions, there are legal concerns to consider. Travers, a labor and employment attorney and partner in the Jacksonville, Fla., What Are the Legal Safeguards for Getting Back to Work? Mon, 07/27/2020 - 12:57. office of Akerman. .

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Indemnification Clause in Construction Contract was Expensive for Contractor

Construction Lawyer

281 Broadway Holdings, LLC , a subcontractor was forced to pay for the costs of defense of the owner and general contractor, even though the court found that the contractor was not at fault. The owner hired Pavarini as the general contractor. The owner and the general contractor filed cross-claims against SJ for indemnification.