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of dollars in claims,” said Pike. “In a
nutshell, our perfect client is the middle-
market business owner wearing five or
six hats. What we do is take one hat
off and become their outsourced risk
management team, and we manage their
risk, holistically, from top to bottom.”
“General contractors do a lot of due
diligence when it comes to selecting the
right sub, but they don’t always take
that approach when choosing the right
broker,” said Pike. “Lowest bid is not the
way to buy insurance.” According to Pike,
a general contractor should be asking
some basic, fundamental questions
when selecting a broker:
- Does my broker have the
ability to provide real-time, on-
demand risk services?
- Does my broker have the ability
to provide accurate analytical
data for workers’ compensation
claims that will drive my risk
management protocols?
- Does my broker have the
expertise and ability to handle
contractual risk transfer?
“People don’t know what they’re not
getting until they have an experience
where they see a true professional
brokerage organization attacking their
risk on multiple fronts,” said Pike. “Our
commitment to our clients is to help them
reduce their losses and enhance their
insurance rating, which ultimately lowers
their overall cost of transferring the risk to
the carrier, and we simply ask our client
‘Is this what your broker is currently doing
for you?’ Almost 99 percent of the time,
the answer is ‘no.’”
T
he PENTA Building Group was the recipient of the September AGC Las Vegas Safe Site Award for the San Manuel Interior Remodel
in Highland, California. This project included a $30 million interior remodel of a tribal casino that started in October of 2014 and
is expected to be completed by June of 2016. A total of 225 men have logged 179,740 working hours thus far without a lost-
time accident. Jeff Stolzoff and Robert Bucein are the project managers, and Brian Schell along with Don Farnham, Louis Blanchard,
and Leo Erhardt are the project superintendents. Once complete, this interior remodel will be in 25 areas that were all accessible during
construction. Keeping the public safe was just as important as keeping the workers safe to The PENTA Building Group.
San Manuel Interior Remodel — The PENTA Building Group
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