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

Levelset

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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Contractor Management and Prequalification: Why Are They Necessary?

Safety Services Company

Avoiding Legal Issues Hiring clients hire a licensed contractor to save themselves from legal liabilities and low-quality work. In that case, the responsibility of dealing with workplace accidents or unsafe job sites will fall upon them, causing legal issues. So, suppose the business hires an unlicensed and non-compliant contractor.

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5 Tips to Finding a Commercial Roofing Contractor

Construction Marketing

Insurance Cover is Crucial. You should protect your interests by confirming whether the commercial contractor you intend to hire is covered by insurance. If they don’t have insurance for their workers, you should not consider doing any business with them. Such roofing contractors are nothing but a looming liability.

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4 Tips for Hiring a Reputable Plumbing Contractor

Construction Marketing

Consider Insurance and License. Dealing with a plumber that is licensed by the municipal helps in protecting your interests as a homeowner. Besides that, if they are insured, you can be sure they will not become a liability in case they suffer an injury in the process of doing their job. Price and Warranty.

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Green Buildings are Subsidizing Conventional Buildings Stymying Climate Progress

Green Building Law Update

The financial value of green buildings is well documented, from commanding higher rents, greater occupancy rates, and increased occupant satisfaction, to lower operating costs for everything from reduced insurance premiums and less energy utilized, easily resulting in an increased return on investment of more than 9% over conventional building.

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COVID 19 Commercial Building Liability

Green Building Law Update

Over time coronavirus pandemic exposure claims may result in a new emergent subset of premises liability law, but in most instances it is presumed that body of existing law will control. All of this begs the question if a business owner’s premises liability insurance covers such claims?

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