Developers and Subdividers
A development passes through land acquisition, entitlement, horizontal site work, vertical construction, sales or lease-up and a long completed-operations tail, and each policy or bond on the project starts and stops on its own trigger. The phase article lists those triggers, from deed recording through written bond release, and shows where one placement can end before the next one attaches. It includes improvement security rules in all three states and a trigger map to share with the lender and the surety.
Read how each line starts and stops in insurance and bonds by development phase.
General Contractors
An owner's insurance exhibit is where a general contractor agrees to additional insured scope, primary and noncontributory wording, waivers, aggregates, excess terms, builders risk responsibility and notice of cancellation. The exhibit article gives a line-by-line reading method, explains how to test each requirement against the endorsement that would deliver it and covers flow-down to subcontractors along with the indemnity limits in Texas, Arizona and California.
Work through the method in how to read an owner's insurance exhibit.
Infrastructure and Civil
A utility strike produces an operator repair bill, third-party losses and possible statutory penalties at the same time. The utility strike article compares the one-call duties in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada, including notice windows, marking deadlines, Texas Class B lines and Arizona's economic loss rule, and then explains how general liability, contractors pollution liability and contract indemnity meet the loss.
See how compliance shapes the claim in one-call law and utility strike claims.
Coverage: Builders Risk and Partial Occupancy
Phased projects often put residents or tenants into finished buildings while construction continues next door. This article looks at how builders risk occupancy and termination wording applies building by building and how permanent property protection has to pick up each completed building.
Read the occupancy analysis in builders risk during partial occupancy.
Coverage: Wrap-Up Enrollment for Subcontractors
When an owner sponsors a wrap-up, each enrolled subcontractor has to remove wrap costs from its bid, report payroll and keep its own coverage for work the program does not reach. This article walks a subcontractor through enrollment and the gaps to check before mobilizing.
Follow the steps in OCIP enrollment for subcontractors.
Surety
A surety reads a contractor's work-in-progress schedule to judge whether backlog, margins and billing match the financial statements. Surety is credit, not insurance: the bond protects the obligee and the contractor owes the surety indemnity. This article explains what underwriters look for in a WIP schedule and how it affects bonding capacity.
Prepare the schedule with what a surety reads in a WIP schedule.
Questions Buyers Ask
Who are these insurance and surety articles written for?
Developers and subdividers, established general contractors and civil, underground and infrastructure contractors working on projects in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada. Each article assumes the reader already knows the basics of construction insurance and wants the detail behind one specific decision, such as an exhibit term, a phase transition or a statutory duty.
Do the articles replace a review of our own policies and contracts?
No. They explain how the issue typically works and which statutes and policy terms usually decide it. Whether a particular loss is paid depends on the actual policy forms, endorsements, contract wording and facts, so each article lists the items a broker or counsel should confirm for your project.
How do the articles relate to the main guides on this site?
Each article supports one broader guide, such as the developer, general contractor or civil contractor page or a coverage page like builders risk, wrap-ups or surety. The guide gives the full program view, and the article goes deeper on one question within it. Links in each article point back to that guide and to related pages.
Reviewed by the Principal, Gleason Insurance Brokers, LLCUpdated
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