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Factors to Know About Crane and Rigging Insurance

Construction Marketing

Fortunately, crane and rigging insurance provide protection and compensation. However, understanding these insurance policies is key to maximizing your benefits. What is crane and rigging insurance? Other common crane and rigging insurance types include: Boom truck operator insurance.

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Contractor Management and Prequalification: Why Are They Necessary?

Safety Services Company

For contractors, these come in the form of a process known as prequalification and contractor management. What is Contractor Management? Contractor management is a series of checks ensuring that the contractors follow up-to-date safety practices and conform to health and regulatory standards.

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FAQs About Contractor Management Platforms

Safety Services Company

Naturally, many contractors (like you!) may be wondering how to make 2024 the best year yet for health, safety, and compliance. After all, safety first, bidding next. Let’s get some clarity on some of this year’s FAQs about Contractor Management platforms and how you can conquer each quarter!

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Willmott Dixon vows to recover building safety millions

Construction Enquirer

The cost of complying with the Building Safety Act has blown a hole in the latest accounts from Willmott Dixon. And the contractor vowed to go after “designers, fire engineers, supply chain and insurers” to reclaim a “substantial portion” of the £62m it has set aside for building safety and cladding retrofits.

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Project Protection 101: Exclusive Insights for Cost Challenges

Construction Business Owner

The consequence of this upward trend in costs is a significant challenge for general contractors (GCs) and real estate developers for many reasons. What many might not know, is that these cost escalations can correlate directly to higher insurance premiums and reduce risk appetite from insurance carriers making it harder to get coverage.

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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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Does GC Insurance Cover Subcontractors?

Levelset

General contractors know these risks when they take the role. Luckily, that’s what insurance is for, right? But what if the general contractor isn’t at fault, and a subcontractor is to blame? Does a general contractor’s insurance cover their subcontractors’ accidents or mistakes? General liability insurance.