Commercial industry

Concrete Contractor Insurance

Concrete contractors pour the thing that cracks, settles, and gets blamed two winters later. The file is contractor GL with completed-operations, an equipment and forms floater, commercial auto for the mixer and the pump-truck hire, and a license bond. This page is building concrete and flatwork — foundations, slabs, sidewalks on a site, decorative. It is not a street-and-road or highway program. We already keep highway construction off the featured list, and we will not use this page to sneak it back on.

We place residential-commercial and light commercial concrete contractors. Structural work on mid-rise, tilt-up as a GC, and work in the traveled right-of-way need to be on the application in plain language. If that is your book, we will say whether we have a market instead of coding you as “flatwork” to force a small-trade form.

Completed-operations is the claim: a slab that settles, a balcony that fails, a trip edge on a sidewalk you poured for a GC. Additional-insured and per-project aggregates are what the upstream contract will demand. We read the exhibit. Products coverage matters if you also sell mix or decorative toppings.

Forms, power buggies, and a skid steer are inland marine. A rented pump is a rented-equipment grant because the rental contract will not be shy. Commercial auto covers the mixer and the crew trucks; hired and non-owned covers the pump operator you do not employ. We ask about ready-mix you haul versus mix you buy on site — those are different auto and products facts.

Washington crews stay with L&I. We place stop-gap and private WC for competitive-state jobs. We do not replace L&I. Excavation that is incidental to a footing can stay on this file when it is truly incidental. A crew that digs for a living should see the excavation page, which we keep deprioritized on purpose. Street, road, and highway work stays on that deprioritized page — not here.

Masonry, general contractors, and tile are the related pages. Decorative concrete and polished slabs are still concrete. If you only overlay and coat, tell us — that can look like a floor-coating class and we will say so.

Risks we actually schedule

  • Completed-operations settlement, cracking, and trip-edge claims years after the pour.
  • A rented pump or forms loss the rental contract puts on you.
  • Mixer and crew-truck auto, including hired units on a big pour day.
  • Work that quietly became right-of-way or structural mid-rise without a class change.

Frequently asked questions

We pour driveways and city sidewalks. Is that street and road?

A driveway and a sidewalk on a building site are usually building concrete / flatwork. Work in the traveled public right-of-way is street and road. Tell us where the forms sit. We will not feature street-and-road from this page.

Does GL cover our forms and mixer?

No. That is equipment and auto. GL is the failed slab and the neighbor’s foundation you undermine.

We hire a pump. Do we need to insure it?

The rental contract will say you are primary for damage to the unit and for operation. We add rented equipment and we want the pump company’s certificate if they operate it.