Operations this guide may include
- Concrete flatwork, sidewalks, driveways, and slabs
- Foundations, footings, walls, and structural concrete
- Brick, block, stone, veneer, and masonry restoration
- Pavers, hardscape, decorative concrete, and related site work
Questions that shape the conversation
Insurance markets evaluate the complete operation. These are examples of details that can materially affect the available path.
- What percentage of work is residential, commercial, structural, decorative, or repair?
- Are excavation, underpinning, shoring, demolition, cranes, pumping, or work above ground involved?
- What are the largest project and contract values, and who performs engineering or design?
- How are mix specifications, reinforcement, curing, testing, subcontractors, and completed-work documentation handled?
Coverage topics to discuss
General liability
Jobsite, adjacent-property, structural, and completed-work exposures arising from covered operations.
Workers compensation
Employee injury considerations involving lifting, cutting, silica, machinery, falls, and active jobsites.
Commercial auto
Trucks, trailers, drivers, material transport, and business-use exposures.
Contractor equipment and inland marine
Mixers, saws, pumps, forms, skid steers, tools, and mobile equipment used at jobsites.
Information worth preparing
- Work-type, structural, excavation, height, and project-value breakdown
- Employee, subcontractor, payroll, and certificate-control details
- Vehicle, trailer, owned, rented, and borrowed equipment schedules
- Contracts, testing, quality control, safety procedures, current insurance, and loss runs
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