By Ross Driscoll Jr. Originally Published in C&R Magazine, May/June, 2022 The environmental insurance landscape for restoration contractors is constantly evolving. Whether carriers are updating policy forms, increasing rates, becoming more restrictive, or increasing underwriting standards, the one thing that is always constant is change. Over the past two years, I have seen more carriers […]
By Ross Driscoll Jr. Originally Published in C&R Magazine, March/April, 2022 Business owners seem to be waking up and seeing the need for better cybersecurity. Cyber liability is still relatively new compared to the rest of the insurance marketplace. I estimate that less than 10% of the restoration industry purchases cyber liability coverage. This is […]
National E&S Insurance Brokers®, a California-based wholesale broker specializing in all environmental and construction insurance lines, announces an exclusive Covid-19 cleanup program with CapSpecialty®, a leading provider of specialty insurance for small to mid-sized businesses in the U.S. This program aims to provide affirmative pollution coverage for contractors doing commercial Covid-19 clean up and remediation […]
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By Ross Driscoll Sr., CIC, CR Originally Published in C&R Magazine, Quarter 3, 2019 If you are a restoration contractor, every day you are taking on risk for other people’s property, even if you are not taking it to your facility. Bailees provides coverage for the care, custody and control of other people’s property in […]
A handbook for contractors, property managers and maintenance personnel working in homes and child-occupied facilities built before 1978. Who Should Read this Handbook? Anyone who owns or manages housing or child-occupied facilities built before 1978. Contractors who perform activities that disturb painted surfaces in homes and child-occupied facilities built before 1978 (including certain repairs and […]
As a licensed general contractor and insurance broker, I’m often asked by trade and general contractors for guidance with their risk management. Usually, they’ll ask me how I managed risks with my own construction company through the years. We constructed a new building for our company 3 years ago, for which I was the general […]
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Today’s plumbing or HVAC professional is assuming risks that were previously covered by their general liability policies. Insurance carriers today routinely insert pollution, asbestos, lead, microbial matter (mold) and bacteria exclusions into their policies. These exclusions were being added over the last 10 years as insurance carriers were paying claims for the above exposures they […]
No matter how careful you are, you can never eliminate all exposure to hazardous materials or waste on construction jobsites. Improving quality control, material handling procedures, conducting site surveys, and updating work policies can help prevent accidents and exposure and improve work site health and safety, but these steps alone may not be enough to […]
