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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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Contractor Management and Prequalification: Why Are They Necessary?

Safety Services Company

Contractor management is a series of checks ensuring that the contractors follow up-to-date safety practices and conform to health and regulatory standards. In that case, the responsibility of dealing with workplace accidents or unsafe job sites will fall upon them, causing legal issues. What is Contractor Management?

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Staffing companies may not insure workers have proper safety training

FDR Safety

Just because you hire contract workers from a staffing company doesn’t mean that your obligation to assure that they are properly trained in safety is any less. Here are some tips for dealing with these kinds of situations: 1) Ensure you have a detailed contract outlining the responsibilities of each company in great detail.

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A New Truck, Bus Safety Rating Proposal Likely This Year

FDR Safety

While many of the rules have already been floated as proposals such as electronic logging and increases to the minimum insurance levels, one major new offering to expect this year will aim to bolster the CSA enforcement program by establishing a new way to assign official safety ratings to companies based on their CSA safety performance.

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Lower Workers' Compensation Costs by Having a Plan

Pro Builder

There should be a detailed safety training program in place to prevent jobsite accidents, which then inherently lowers workers’ compensation costs. Some incidents cannot be prevented, such as accidents that even builders with a safety-first mentality encounter. Jobsite Safety. Jobsite Safety. Construction.

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COVID-19 Liability for Building Owners

Green Building Law Update

It is widely accepted that while a property owner owes a duty to exercise ordinary care to keep the premises in a reasonably safe condition, it is not the insurer of the invitee’s safety. All of this begs the question if a business owner’s premises liability insurance covers such claims?

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Construction Law: December 2023

Construction Law

Thomas King of Pinsent Masons LLP analyses recent case law with implications for the process of sampling and extrapolation which allows cost effective ways of dealing with complex claims. Building Safety Act Safe as (qualifying tenants’) houses? There are pitfalls for the unwary, he warns – and for the insurers as well.