Contractor licensing requirements, trade regulations, and compliance guides by country. Find the rules that apply where you operate.
General liability pays for what your work damages, not to fix your work. Here's the exclusion that catches contractors, and what GCs will make you carry.
Passing inspection is not the same as complying. Here's where renovation work creates ADA exposure, which dimensions actually fail, and who ends up paying.
Coverage is triggered state by state, and construction almost always gets the strictest rule. Here's what sets it off, and what skipping it costs you.
Fall protection, scaffolding, trenching — here are the OSHA compliance rules for contractors that trigger the most citations, and how to stay clear of them.
Disturb old paint on a pre-1978 job without it and the fines are brutal. Here's what RRP certification for contractors covers — and how to get certified.
There is no national contractor's license in the US. Here's how contractor license requirements differ by state — and how to confirm yours before you bid.
You can't open a business bank account or hire without them. Here's how EIN and business registration work for US contractors — and the order to do them in.
A signed agreement that says "1099" doesn't settle worker classification — the working relationship does. Here's how contractors get it right before an audit does it for them.
