Commercial Lines

As competition heats up in the builders risk insurance market, keep an eye on broader coverage forms, the Internet of Things and predictive analytics.

As a result of increasingly popular design-build scenarios, the efforts of general contractors have intertwined with design professionals, which can lead to extremely complex, costly and timely liability issues.

All businesses are vulnerable to a workplace violence event, whether it’s a casual office setting or an establishment with late hours and frequent customers.

As the U.S. construction market stays strong, builders risk insurance pricing has gotten more and more competitive. But are losses starting to catch up with rates?

Working in the builders risk market gives independent agent Shyla Lankford a sense of accomplishment. “Being able to watch the progress of a project go from empty land to a beautiful building and knowing that you were a part of that is exciting and fulfil

A fire destroys a building that was originally built in 1961. Does replacement cost include uniform building code requirements?

Whether it’s the absence of an important word, line or sentence from the policy, or a seemingly innocuous shift in the location of a definition or coverage item, here are four scenarios in which “lookalike” nonstandard policies could contain dangerous gap

Independent agent Marty Clark spends ample time getting to know his customers’ business operations because, when offering general liability coverage, “it’s not OK to assume you know their risks,” he says.

As 20th-century writer and philosopher George Santayana famously declared, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” No argument here. Insurance underwriters and claim managers share the conviction that the surest way to predict the

As temperatures plummet during the winter months, Jack Frost looms large for businesses in industries ranging from construction to hospitality.