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To aid brokers in guiding their contractor clients through the pandemic, Trisura Guarantee Insurance has issued an advisory with helpful suggestions and reminders.

The advisory, authored by Trisura vice-president of surety and warranty claims Stuart Detsky, was posted on the company’s offic...

04/11/2020 01:58 PM

Before the COVID-19 pandemic spread, construction in the U.S. was booming. Backlogs were deep and project funding was easily accessible. Back before we knew the term COVID-19, the “crisis” in the construction industry was the labor shortage, an aging generation of skilled tradesmen, or the nation’s ...

04/09/2020 03:01 AM

The surety industry is asking federal, state and local officials to take emergency action to update decades-old surety rules requiring stamped notarizations and ink signatures that the Covid-19 pandemic has made impossible or more difficult while social distancing and shelter rules are in place.

The ...

04/08/2020 04:00 AM

April 6, 2020

The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

We, the undersigned trade and professional organizations representing tens of thousands of firms and individuals engaged in architecture, engineering, surveying and mapping, prime contracting, subcontracting, specialty...



04/08/2020 12:00 AM
Insurance giant QBE has made a dramatic U-turn on its sudden decision to withdraw from the trade credit insurance market following major pushback from the construction industry and the federal opposition. On Saturday QBE told customers it would no longer provide trade credit insurance for businesses...
04/06/2020 12:00 PM