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Subcontractor Performance Risk

Subcontractor Qualification for Challenging Times

2021-07-03 | Cheri Hanes

Cheri Hanes discusses subcontractors' internal changes, supply chain and escalation challenges, and changing project requirements.

Liability Insurance

Loss of Use as Property Damage

2021-06-04 | Craig F Stanovich

Not all losses to or impairment of property is considered property damage. Craig Stanovich delves into the evolution and application of the term as it pertains to liability insurance.

Liability Insurance

The CGL Pollution Exclusion

2021-05-07 | Craig F Stanovich

The current ISO CGL policy provides little pollution coverage. Craig Stanovich discusses the history and intricacies of the coverage.

Subcontractor Performance Risk

Managing Construction Cost Escalation

2021-05-07 | Cheri Hanes

In the wake of COVID-19 and bad weather, contractors and subcontractors need to communicate, reassess, and collaborate. Cheri Hanes explains.

Subcontractor Performance Risk

Thinking Inside the Box—Modular Construction Considerations

2021-02-24 | Cheri Hanes

Successful projects have open collaboration, an understanding of potential risks, and agreement on ways to handle them, per Cheri Hanes.

Construction Defect Coverage

Defining and Fixing Construction Defects

2021-01-29 | Joseph M Junfola

Getting down to fundamentals, Joseph Junfola examines why failures occur and what can be done.

Subcontractor Performance Risk

Project Pursuit Decisions—Play to Your Strengths

2020-11-25 | Cheri Hanes

In construction, begin with the end in mind and make reasonable cost and schedule commitments, advises Cheri Hanes.

Design and Professional Liability

Changing CPrL Marketplace: Expectations for 2021

2020-10-30 | Jeff Slivka

Rates are expected to rise for the first time in 10 years. Jeff Slivka explains why.

Construction Defect Coverage

Other Insurance and Allocation in Construction Defect Claims

2020-10-23 | Joseph M Junfola

Joseph Junfola discusses how property damage is allocated when multiple occurrence-based commercial general liability policies are triggered.

Liability Insurance

Commercial Umbrella—Exhaustion of the Underlying Insurance

2020-09-25 | Craig F Stanovich

Craig Stanovich explains the importance of determining when and how the umbrella will attach.

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