Contractor's Supplemental Questionnaire

NOTE:  THROUGHOUT THIS  QUESTIONNAIRE THE WORDS "YOU" & "YOUR" INCLUDE IN ALL ENTITIES SEEKING COVERAGE

  • Applicant: 
  • How many years of experience do you have in the contracting business?  
    Years in business of entities seeking coverage? 
  • What Percentage of your work is :  (each line must add up to 100%)
    a.       (Residential) %                          (Industrial)    %                       (Commercial) %

    b.       (New Const) %     (Struct. Remodel/Additions)%    (Non-Structural Remodel)%
  • What percentage of your work is as a:
    General Contractor %                        Subcontractor %                         Construction %
  • Do you use subcontractors?   Yes  No        If Yes, complete the following:
    a) Percentage of your work subcontracted out %  Annual costs %
    b) List the trades of the subcontractors you use and give the percentage of work they perform:
    %                  %               %
    %                  %              %
    c) Do you collect certificates from all subcontractors? Yes  No    What limit: 
    d) Do you require all subcontractors to name you as an additional insured?  Yes  No
        If Yes, have you always done so?  
    e) Does your contract with subcontractors include a hold harmless favoring you?  Yes  No
    f) How long do you maintain records of the above documents? 
  • Do you work outside California?  Yes  No     Describe:
  • Gross receipts for the past 4 years and the next 12 months:
    4th year prior      3rd year prior     2nd year prior  
    Lasr 12 months   Next 12 months
  • Number of owners, officers, and partners active at job sites or performing supervisory duties:  
       x $33,600
    =
    Payroll of Employees other than owners, officers, partners & clerical   
    Cost of leased, temporary, staffing services, casual labor(if not included above)   
    Total Payroll   
  • Describe your four largest projects over the past five years, including values:
    1. 

    2. 
    3. 
    4. 
  • Describe your two largest projects currently underway or planned for the next year, including values:
    1.

    2.
  • Dollar value of average job completed (including all materials, labor & equipment) 
  • A. How many new homes will you build as a general contractor in the next year? 
    B. What is the greatest number of new homes you have built in any one year?      
  • Do any prior operations differ substantially in nature from current operations?         Yes  No
    Please explain:
  • Note :  The following question applies to work done in any capacity (including general contractors, developers, artisans, re-modeling contractors, site work contractors, suppliers, etc. )
    Have you or will you perform work involving or related to or about the premises of:
    a) Condominiums or townhouses  Yes  No
    b) Apartments                                Yes  No
    c) Tracts, PUD's or other development, premises or project with more than 7 homes built or planned? Yes  No
    Please describe:
  • Have you ever performed work on hillsides, hill tops, slopes, landfill  or other subsidence areas or do you  plan to in the
    future? Yes No   If yes maximum degree of slope?
    Please describe:
  • Have or will any of your projects involve caissons, cantilevers, piers, retaining walls, shoring , underpinning or other heavy
    structural engineering techniques?
    Yes No 
    Please describe:

    If retaining walls have been or will be built,  maximum height:
  • Do you perform work above two stories in height  ( other than interior remodeling)? Yes  No
    If so, what percentage? %  Maximum height:  ft.

    Please describe:
  • Do you perform  any work below ground level?   Yes  No 
    If so,  what percentage? %  Maximum depth? ft.
  • Have you or will you build, remove, repair or replace roofs?  Yes  No      % Hot tar:
    Please describe:
  • Have you or will you perform work for the following types of clients or industries:  gas stations, refineries, chemical plants,
    airports, public utilities, railroads or hospitals?  Yes  No
    Please describe:
  • Have you or will you work as a construction manager on a fee basis?                                           Yes  No
    Have you or will you supervise subcontractors whose payments are run through another entity?  Yes  No
    Please describe:
  • In the past 3 years have you been fired or replaced on a job in progress?          Yes  No
    In the past 3 years have you replaced another contractor on a job in progress?  Yes  No
    Please describe:
  • Note:  The following questions apply regadless of whether the applicant was at fault for a claim or incident and regardless of whether the claim or incident was covered by insurance.  Explain any "yes" answers in the space provided below:
    a) Have there been any loses, claims or suites against you in the past five years?                             Yes  No
    b) Are there any claims or legal actions pending against any of the entities named in the application? Yes No
    c) Do any of the entities named in the application have knowledge of any pre-existing act, omission, event, condition, or
        damages to any person or property that may potentially give rise to any future claim or legal action against any such
        entity? Yes  No
    d) Have you been accused of faulty construction in the past 5 years?      yes No
    e) Have you been accused of breaching a contract in the past 5 years? Yes No
       
  • For each of the following activities, check: 
    Yes:  If the activity has or will be performed, subcontracted or supervised by applicant.
    No :  If the applicant has never and does not plan to perform, subcontract or supervise the activity

    Yes

    No        

    Yes

    No

    a. Demolition j. Process piping
    b. Concrete tilt-up construction k. Road/highway/bridge/
    c. LPG Work     overpass construction
    d. Seismic retrofitting l. Underground tank removal,
    e. Swimming pool construction    repair or installation
    f. Boiler installation/repair m. Work on gas lines or pumps
    g. Industrial machinery repar or n. Asbestos or lead abatement
        Installation (millwright work) o. Environmental cleanup
    h. Use of Cranes p. Dam or levee work
    i. Rental of equipment to others q. Traffic signals/controls work

    Explain any "yes" answers and state whether performed by insured or subcontracted:


    WARRANTY:  The purpose of the Supplemental Questionnaire is to assist the underwriting process.  Information
    contained herein is specifically relied upon in determination of insurability.  The undersigned, therefore, warrants
    that the information is true and accurate to the best of his  knowledge, information and belief.   his Supplemental
    Questionnaire, and the application to which it is appended shall be the basis of any insurance policy that may be
     issued and will be  part of such policy. 

    Signature of Applicant:  ________________________________________      Date :   

    Name and Title :