Source: https://axaxl.com/, April 21, 2023
By: Morgan Shrubb and Kristen Hoskinson

Construction projects are susceptible to all sorts of loss exposures – pollution, weather events, worker accidents, theft and more. However, in a changing environment in which political activism and active shooter incidents are increasingly more frequent, the construction owners are now taking on risks they didn’t expect – those involving terrorist acts or civil commotion.

It happens more often than you might think – an active shooter in an airport where a large construction project is occurring is as much of a risk to the construction project as are politically motivated violence directed at construction workers and equipment when the perception is that the project is occurring on Native American land or is somehow harming the environment. Construction that requires deforestation of a wilderness area, abortion clinic construction, pipelines in areas that cross protected lands. In some cases, a number of factors create a maelstrom of public backlash. Read more.