All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 31 2010 // New Jersey workers’ compensation laws do not prevent a construction worker injured in a trench collapse from suing his employer, a state Appeals Court has ruled.The lawsuit — which was originally dismissed by a...
Aug 30 2010 // CNA has added nine new choice endorsements to its customized insurance solutions for small business clients. CNA Connect, the global business insurer’s flagship property and liability package policy for small...
Aug 24 2010 // The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its preliminary statistics for 2009, reporting that work-related deaths declined in Washington state last year to numbers not seen since 2000.The BLS, which produces an...
Aug 23 2010 // The slump in the U.S. commercial property market didn’t quite plumb the depths of the downturn in residential real estate, but although there are signs that home prices are nearing the bottom, commercial real estate...
Aug 20 2010 // Mountain View, Calif.-based Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates has added Marti Romaneck as vice president and manager of its Commercial Lines Divisionr. “As we continue to expand both organically with the addition of...
Aug 20 2010 // Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries show a decline in workplace fatalities in 2009 compared with 2008.Last year, 4,340 workers died from...
Aug 18 2010 // As of Oct. 8, California employers must begin distributing an updated version of the workers’ compensation new hire pamphlet to all employees hire on or after that date; post revised workers’ comp employee...
Aug 18 2010 // Many of the biggest U.S. companies are removing spending limits from their employees’ health plans and taking other steps to comply with the new healthcare law, according to a report released on Wednesday.Most of the...
Aug 10 2010 // Criminologists call it murder by proxy — rampages by employees who go after their boss, supervisors and even co-workers they link to the source of their outrage. The message is: Look who’s doing the firing...
Aug 9 2010 // After two years of preparation, Central National Bank in Enid, Okla., will focus its growth strategies on penetrating Tulsa’s small business market.“Obviously the growth for the bank is going to come from the...
Aug 6 2010 // Connecticut-based Business Risk Partners has purchased the renewal rights to the miscellaneous professional liability book of Houston-based ProAssurance Mid-Continent Underwriters Co. Underwriting on behalf of...
Aug 5 2010 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. has reported second quarter 2010 net income of $16.5 million compared with $20.3 million in the second quarter of 2009, a decrease of $3.8 million or $0.05 per share. Net income for...
Aug 4 2010 // Houston, Texas-based managing general agent Milton O. Johnston & Co. Ltd. has been appointed by The Main Street America Group to write commercial general liability, commercial auto (liability and physical damage) and...
Aug 4 2010 // A new state loan program in Iowa designed to help entrepreneurs and small businesses is now accepting applications.Iowa businesses with less than 35 employees can get a loan up to $50,000 from the Iowa Small Business Loan...
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,...