Stories and Features about Construction Insurance

It always amazes me just how many contractors trade happily, sometimes with, but more times without the knowledge that they are not adequately insured for the works they are carrying out. We are not talking about small contractors here with turnovers of 50-100k, but also large building contractors with turnovers of 3-4 million.

We had a great example this week of a building contractor with a 4 million pound turnover who was paying for just an expensive piece of paper Continue reading “Educating Building Contractors on the importance of having Contractors All Risk Insurance”

We had a call from a developer last week asking for us to insure a pub he purchased 3 years ago to develop into 8 luxury apartments. After a lengthy discussion about all the different types of insurances he might need, we slowly started to piece things together for him.

After speaking to the developer and finding out exactly what his plane were for the pub, one of the first questions we asked the property developer, was if there were any restrictive covenants on the property. Continue reading “Developing a Pub into Residential Apartments”