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• Builders Hampered By Labor Scarcity As Demand For Homes Surges

  Sales and prices are up, and inventories are low. Builders need to boost production, but the supply of skilled trades is tight.

• Colorado Monoxide Case Moves Toward Trial

  A Colorado general contractor’s day in court is approaching in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by relatives of a family poisoned by carbon monoxide at a ski chalet.

• Workers Injured, Killed In Trench Collapses

  Unrelated incidents involving collapsed excavations have critically injured one construction worker in Lincoln, Nebraska, and killed a worker in Corpus Christi, Texas.

• Connecticut Department Of Labor Stops Work On Job Sites, Citing Worker Misclassification

  Connecticut authorities have ordered 27 jobs to a halt in the state because employers were paying employees as subcontractors and failing to obtain workers comp coverage.

• Materials Prices Jump As Housing Takes Off

  As homebuilding starts to surge, materials prices are surging too.

• Maryland Coastal Regions Face Hard Hit From Redrawn Flood Maps, Premium Hikes

  New floodplain maps combined with rising flood insurance premiums will hammer residents of Somerset County, Maryland, according to a press report.

• Hawaii Looks To Scale Back Owner-Builder License Exemption

  Hawaiians can act as their own general contractor without any license under current law. But that may change this year.

• North Carolina Bills Could Shake Up Local Code And Zoning Enforcement

  Bills under consideration by the North Carolina legislature could dramatically alter local enforcement of codes and zoning.

• Colorado Insurance Contractor Draws Three-Year Fraud Term

  Three years in the Federal pen: that’s the sentence for cooking the books in insurance restoration work.

• North Carolina Lawmakers Vote For Six-Year Code Cycle

  North Carolina’s House has voted for a measure that would lengthen the code revision cycle and limit local inspections.