The San Francisco Chronicle’s on-line site “SFGate.com” has an article discussing a business that has started up to rate the financial reliability of general contractors for subs. i.e. whether GCs have been reliable in paying the subcontractors the amount that they were owed. The service, unfortunately, is a bit pricey.
It is at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/02/02/carollloyd.DTL