All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 4 2010 // Darren Beck has been named chief executive officer of Business Insurance Now, an online marketplace for commercial insurance for small businesses. He will also serve as a member of the Allen, Texas-based company’s...
Jul 30 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that a Travis County district court sentenced Cheryl Bussey of Mansfield, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Bussey was sentenced to 10 years’ deferred...
Jul 27 2010 // Headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., H. Linwood Insurance Services Inc. (HLIS) has opened its doors as a full-service brokerage firm for commercial insurance business in multiple states. In addidtion to its home office, the...
Jul 26 2010 // Connecticut-based managing general agent Business Risk Partners has hired Mark A. Wilson as director of national sales.Wilson served as the agency director of broker relations from 2002 to 2006, overseeing marketing for...
Jul 26 2010 // Many years ago when Mindy Hixon started working in the family trucking business in Carbon County, Wyo., she realized safety wasn’t a top priority.“I knew for a fact what we were doing was illegal, unsafe and...
Jul 22 2010 // Decreases in average renewal premiums continued to show up for commercial clients during the second quarter of 2010, according to risk managers.Premium decreases of between 2.5 and 3.8 percent were reported for property,...
Jul 22 2010 // Conover Insurance of Pasco, Wash., has named Darren McEuin vice president within the commercial division. McEuin joined Conover in 2001 as an account executive in the Commercial Insurance Division and primarily...
Jul 20 2010 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc., whose subsidiaries are specialty providers of workers’ compensation insurance focused on small businesses, will review the company’s second quarter 2010 financial...
Jul 19 2010 // A new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce shows that small businesses shoulder a sizable burden of the nation’s tort liability costs, having paid $105.4 billion in 2008 – a third of it out of their own...
Jul 14 2010 // National Interstate Insurance Co. is now making its commercial vehicle insurance product available in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia.The Richfield, Ohio company said it is actively seeking to increase its...
Jul 14 2010 // Allied Insurance, based in Des Moines, Iowa, announced new changes to its commercial quoting process that it says will allow independent agents to write business insurance quicker and easier. Among the new features: 25...
Jul 12 2010 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has hired Jared Morrison as a commercial lines producer in its Portland, Ore., office. Morrison will expand the company’s large commercial hospitality and Allied Health client base in the...
Jul 9 2010 // A new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce shows that small businesses shoulder a sizable burden of the nation’s tort liability costs, having paid $105.4 billion in 2008— a third of it out of their own...
Jun 30 2010 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group has been recognized as one of the “Healthiest Companies in America” and one of Cincinnati’s 2010 Top Workplaces.For the second consecutive year, Great...
Jun 22 2010 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers announced that Richard P. Hallman has been promoted to senior vice president and chief information officer. Hallman previously served for the past five years as Employers’ vice president of...
Jun 22 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors has voted to modify two tables that impact experience-based rate adjustments for Public Employer Taxing Districts (PEC), effective Jan. 1, 2011.The...
Jun 21 2010 // Risk management ranks relatively low on the priorities list for small business owners, according to a recent survey by Travelers. And that outlook could mean trouble down the road when problems arise for those firms, the...
Jun 15 2010 // Medical costs for U.S. employers will rise by 9 percent in 2011, slightly less than they have risen this year, according to a survey released Monday.To try to control the impact, employers are turning to wellness programs...
Jun 14 2010 // CNA insurance companies recently formalized its relationship with SeaPass Solutions, Inc. to support the expansion of on-line quoting resources for its small business agents and brokers. Through the SeaPass Hub platform, a...
Jun 14 2010 // A fragile global economy, excess capacity in virtually every line of commercial insurance and last year’s below-average catastrophic losses combined to keep commercial insurance prices flat during the first quarter...