All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 25 2012 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced Wednesday the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate.Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as...
May 23 2012 // The state of Vermont is honoring several companies for their commitment to safety in the workplace. The Ben & Jerry’s plant in St. Albans and the H.P. Hood plant in Barre have won awards in the large business...
May 23 2012 // United Heartland, a national workers’ compensation insurance company based in New Berlin, Wis., announced it has been selected as one of the Top 100 Workplaces in Southeastern Wisconsin by the Milwaukee Journal...
May 18 2012 // A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case.In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had...
May 16 2012 // UK-based Aqua Underwriting announced the launch of a range of niche commercial combined products exclusively for brokers, building on its success with high net worth (HNW) products in the personal lines market.Aqua said...
May 7 2012 // The nation’s premier worker safety agency takes nearly eight years on average to adopt new safety regulations, government auditors said in a report.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration takes far too long...
May 7 2012 // Progressive Insurance has doubled the available liability limits of its commercial auto policies. It now offers options for $1.5 or $2 million. The expanded limits mean business owners won’t need to buy a separate...
May 7 2012 // The Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program reported that 141 workers died on the job in 2011 – four fewer than in 2010. The program investigates work-related deaths and seeks ways to prevent...
May 2 2012 // A growing number of small businesses in New Jersey are self-funding or self-insuring their employees’ healthcare costs, and they are opting out of paying fixed premiums for traditional health insurance plans like...
May 2 2012 // Wyoming has hired seven employees to do workplace safety checks with new funding from state lawmakers. The director of the Department of Workforce Services, Joan Evans, told KCWY-TV that the new employees will work under...
May 2 2012 // Mississippi legislators offered sharply different views of a bill they passed Monday to change the way compensation is awarded to workers injured on the job, or to survivors of those killed at work.If Republican Gov. Phil...
May 1 2012 // The Main Street America Group has introduced a remodeled commercial auto product to independent insurance agents who represent the super regional property/casualty insurance carrier in Arizona, Oklahoma and South...
Apr 26 2012 // A report says fewer people died in the workplace across Michigan last year compared to 2010.The Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program reported that 141 workers died on the job in 2011 — four fewer...
Apr 26 2012 // Selective Insurance Group, headquartered in Branchville, N.J., reported $18.1 million net income for its 2012 first quarter, a 11.7-percent decrease compared to $20.5 million income reported during the prior-year...
Apr 23 2012 // Progressive Insurance has doubled the available liability limits of its commercial auto policies. It now offers options for $1.5 or $2 million. The expanded limits mean business owners won’t need to buy a separate...
Apr 23 2012 // North Carolina officials are requiring insurers to expedite the payment of workers’ compensation patients medical and wage-loss benefits or risk being sentenced to jail.The North Carolina Industrial Commission has...
Apr 23 2012 // The nation’s premier worker safety agency takes nearly eight years on average to adopt new safety regulations, government auditors said in a report.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration takes far too long...
Apr 19 2012 // The Chubb Corporation reported $506 million in net income for the 2012 first quarter, down slightly — 0.59% — from $509 million income reported one year ago.The insurer’s underwriting profit improved...
Apr 19 2012 // The Travelers Companies Inc. reported $806 million in net profit for the 2012 first quarter. The first-quarter profit was down 4 percent when compared to one year ago, but the result during the year-ago period was boosted...
Apr 16 2012 // In recent years, the United States has been impacted by devastating weather events, many unprecedented and unexpected. According to the Environment America Research and Policy Center, more than 15 million Americans live in...