Knowing what your high-risk operations are will go a long way toward sustaining your business over time. Every day, the owners of restoration firms take on risks in the hopes of making a profit.

The perfect combination of events promises to make the procurement of business insurance for restoration contractors more difficult and expensive in the near future.

Most of us have been exposed to the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

The problem is that a lot of owners are deciding how to handle their business tax situation way past the point where they could have really had a meaningful impact on what they will have to pay.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) rule has been in force for almost a year now. The rules and requirements have changed several times already since the April 22, 2010 effective date. Additional changes have been proposed; many misconceptions remain.

It was a hot August morning. The sun had just begun to rise by the time we arrived at the small, one-way street in Philadelphia. We were here to decontaminate and clean out the property of a recently exposed animal hoarder.

In 2004 I predicted that the insurance needs of cleaning and restoration contractors would change dramatically if the insurance industry went ahead with their plans to universally exclude mold claims...