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Subcontractor Insurance: 7 Policies Subs Should Consider for Their Business

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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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Business Interruption Insurance in Construction: What Contractors Need to Know

Levelset

One way to help protect yourself from some of these perils is by having business interruption insurance for construction. This type of insurance can help ensure that you’re able to continue operations if something happens that causes you to lose income. What does business interruption insurance cover ?

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The Startup Construction Business Checklist: 3 Important Documents You Need to Have

Construction Marketing

Insurance is perhaps the most important thing to arrange before starting a construction company. There are many different types of insurance in the United Kingdom. A construction business needs need public liability insurance , and employers’ liability insurance if you employ staff. Business Plan.

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Construction Law – April 2025

Construction Law

Legal terms explained Tse Wei Lim and Yun Wen Soh of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP explain what decennial liability means. Only claims against bodies subject to a relevant liability will succeed, the TCC has ruled.

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Contractors Get Good Insurance & Use It!

Construction Law Monitor

More and more in my everyday practice I encounter issues with contractor general liability insurance (GL). The bad thing is, that most think this is all they need to do in order to be “covered” in the event of a loss or occurrence. If you ever have a lawsuit filed against you put the insurer on notice immediately!

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Builder’s Risk vs. General Liability for Contractors: What’s the Difference?

Levelset

Construction businesses need many different types of insurance to mitigate the risks associated with building projects. Two of the most common insurance policies that contractors have are builder’s risk and general liability, which serve very different purposes. What is builder’s risk insurance?

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#109:  Liability Insurers' Duty to Defend

NH Construction Law

When a contractor or subcontractor is sued for defective workmanship, one of his first thoughts is likely to be whether the damages are covered by his liability insurance. But if the plaintiff’s complaint also alleges some resulting property damage, however minor, the insurer is obliged to defend the lawsuit.