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9 Types of Insurance You Need to Protect Your Contractor Business

Construction Marketing

Between the potential for accidents and injuries on the job site and the risk of lawsuits, it’s important to have insurance to protect yourself from financial losses, but what kind of insurance do you need? Here’s an overview of the most important types of insurance for contractors. General Liability Insurance.

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What Is an Insurance Endorsement? A Contractor’s Guide

Levelset

When working in construction, your insurance policy gets issued as a fairly standard contract. Like a basic construction agreement, you can upgrade or downgrade your insurance policy just as a customer might do with the fit and finish of a building. What is an insurance endorsement? How insurance endorsements work.

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Travelers Insurance Wants to Pay You to Use Procore

Construction Junkie

For years, I’ve been saying that using a cloud-based project management software should be a no-brainer for any construction company. Well, now at least one insurance company believes that, as well. will begin offering their customers a 20% discount of their first year of Procore , the popular construction management software.

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Tech Toys: MIT, Autodesk roll out new tools, BIM software advances

Construction Dive

InfraWorks rolled out updates, Vectorworks announced 2019 editions of its BIM and CAD software and facility managers can now give contractors and other stakeholders access to online insurance certificates.

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The Role of Construction Software Technology in Mitigating Risk

Viewpoint Construction Technology

It can range from planning and estimates to time-line issues; poor organisation of manpower and processes; inefficient project management tools (such as field management software ); lack of contingency plans for bottlenecks and project disruption; and perhaps most worrying, the use of undocumented or unsanctioned methodologies between teams.

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Top 2023 Security Trends For Construction Site Security

Construction Marketing

In addition to allowing for remote operation, cloud-based surveillance has open API integrations that allow you to integrate video analytics software. Video analytics software automates video feed monitoring so that you don’t need to monitor your surveillance feed to spot a potential incident manually.

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What Happened at the 2017 CFMA Conference?

Construction Business Owner

Membership in CFMA is represented by all types of general contractors, specialty trades and construction managers, with a large number of professionals in the accounting, insurance, surety, software, legal and banking industries.

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