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Commercial General Liability for road paving contractors

CGL coverage for bodily injury, property damage, and completed-operations claims arising from your paving work — on public roads, DOT highway projects, commercial lots, and private sites. Includes premises liability, products-completed ops, and independent-contractor liability.

Commercial General Liability — road paving contracting

What it covers

  • Third-party bodily injury on or adjacent to paving jobsites
  • Property damage to adjacent structures, utilities, and vehicles
  • Completed-operations coverage after the project is signed off
  • Independent-contractor and subcontractor liability extensions
  • Defense costs and legal fees for GL claims
  • Additional insured certificates for DOT and prime contractors

Who it's for

  • Any paving contractor bidding on DOT or public work (required)
  • Commercial lot and parking structure paving crews
  • Operations that regularly damage utilities or adjacent structures
  • Contractors required to carry $1M–$2M GL minimums on bids

Why CCA

  • GL structured for paving's completed-operations tail — not generic contractor forms
  • Correct products-completed ops language for DOT inspection-after-completion projects
  • E&S market access for contractors with prior GL loss runs
Commercial General Liability — FAQ

Common questions about commercial general liability

Most state DOT projects require $1M per occurrence and $2M aggregate minimum — but many large highway projects, airport contracts, and port authority jobs require $5M or $10M total limits. We match your GL and umbrella to your contract spec sheet.

Yes — utility-line damage is a covered property-damage claim under your GL, subject to policy terms. We make sure your GL form doesn't contain subsurface utility exclusions that leave you exposed on street-paving projects.

Completed-operations covers claims that arise after your work is finished — pavement failures, base failures, or property damage discovered during DOT inspection. Paving is specifically vulnerable because defects aren't always visible until months after completion.

Your GL covers your work; subcontractors need their own GL policies naming you as additional insured. We help set up proper sub-insurance requirements so a sub's GL failure doesn't void your prime contract coverage.

Yes — we issue additional-insured certificates for DOT, municipal, and prime-contract requirements. Multi-project contractors get a certificate management process that handles the volume without a request backlog.

Cost is driven by crew size and payroll, equipment values, annual revenue, contract types, and loss history. We quote your actual operation in about 15 minutes — never a ballpark from a generic contractor form.

Yes. Contractors Choice Agency is licensed in all 50 states and writes paving programs nationwide — Texas, California, Florida, the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and everywhere asphalt gets laid.

Typically 15 minutes on a call. Larger or higher-value programs may take a day or two to place with the right markets, but we move fast and set expectations up front.

Often yes. We have admitted and E&S markets for contractors declined over prior loss runs, highway fatalities on record, OSHA citations, or high equipment values. Bring us your situation and we'll find a market.

Usually yes. A coordinated program closes gaps between policies, simplifies certificate management for DOT contracts, and is typically cheaper than separate policies from separate carriers.

A.M. Best ratings reflect a carrier's financial strength and ability to pay claims. We place coverage with A-rated (and A.M. Best A+ where possible) carriers so the coverage is there when a stolen paver, a fatality, or a bond call hits.

Yes. We write programs for union, open-shop, and mixed-crew paving operations. Union and prevailing-wage projects may have specific GL and WC requirements we factor into the program structure.

Equipment is paid at its scheduled value on the contractor's equipment policy. We schedule heavy paving iron at actual replacement cost — not depreciated ACV — so a theft or total loss pays what the piece is worth.

Crew size and payroll, full equipment list with values, annual revenue, contract types (DOT, commercial, municipal), bonding capacity needed, current coverage, and loss history. The more detail, the more accurate the quote.

Utility-line damage is a covered property-damage claim under your GL, subject to the policy terms. We make sure your GL form doesn't contain subsurface utility exclusions that would leave you exposed on a street-paving project where unmarked lines are a real risk.

Yes — flagging and traffic-control workers are covered under your workers' comp program. High-traffic-exposure work carries elevated WC rates, which is why correct class-code assignment matters. We class traffic-control and flagging labor accurately.

If your paver is scheduled at ACV or a value that doesn't reflect replacement cost, the claim pays the scheduled amount — not what it costs to replace. We schedule equipment at current replacement value so a claim settlement closes the gap rather than widening it.

Yes. If you're running multiple highway, commercial, and municipal projects at the same time, we build one GL, equipment, and inland marine program that covers every active site — no project-by-project certificate scramble.

Your GL has completed-operations coverage that extends to your work, but subcontractors need their own GL policies naming you as additional insured. We help you set up proper sub-insurance requirements and certificate tracking so your prime contract coverage isn't voided by an uninsured sub.

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