All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2010 // A bill that would have increased employer penalties for workplace safety violations died in the Wyoming State Senate.House Bill 93 had come out of a worker safety task force Gov. Dave Freudenthal appointed last year to...
Feb 26 2010 // A Wyoming bill boosting fines and civil penalties for workplace safety violations will be considered by the full House.The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that House Bill 93 passed the House Minerals, Business and Economic...
Feb 26 2010 // San Diego, CA, 02/26/2010 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc., a leading provider of top rated insurance programs, is pleased to announce executive management level promotions. These changes are effective...
Feb 25 2010 // Employers Holdings Inc. reported fourth quarter 2009 net income of $11.3 million compared with $15.9 million in the same period in 2008, a decrease of $4.6 million. Pre-tax income in the fourth quarter increased $13.8...
Feb 25 2010 // The Indiana House has passed legislation that would repeal an increase on taxes that employers pay into the state’s unemployment insurance fund, which is deeply in debt to the federal government.The...
Feb 23 2010 // The Main Street America Group announced that Steve Peeters, who most recently was president and chief operating officer of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Zurich Insurance Services, has joined The Main Street America Group as...
Feb 23 2010 // Despite soft market conditions, the anticipation of less favorable loss reserve releases and a contracting economy, the U.S. commercial lines insurance market remains relatively stable.According to A.M. Best, while the...
Feb 16 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
Feb 16 2010 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. announced it will review the company’s fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results during a conference call and Webcast on Febr. 25, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. PST. The...
Feb 16 2010 // A new report from Marsh has concluded that “despite the global recession, the commercial insurance market remained stable in the second half of 2009. This provided many organizations across Europe, the Middle East...
Feb 16 2010 // The board of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation will vote in March on a proposed increase for commercial policy holders that will average 4.57 percent.Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon told The...
Feb 9 2010 // Travelers has promoted Bill Cunningham to executive vice president of its Business Insurance segment effective March 1.Cunningham began his career with Travelers in 1987 in Commercial Accounts and has held a number of...
Feb 5 2010 // Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Gray-Stone & Co. is offering a new commercial package policy for California. Written on admitted paper, the carrier is rated “A-” XI by A.M. Best. The commercial package policy...
Feb 2 2010 // Great American Insurance Group’s Executive Liability Division (ELD), based in Schaumburg, Ill., appointed Synergy Professional Associates of Kinnelon, N.J., as its national production coordinator for...
Feb 2 2010 // Commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies generally cover liability for unsolicited “blast faxes” that violate federal law, a Florida court has ruled.The Supreme Court of Florida issued its ruling...
Feb 2 2010 // The slayings last year of six law enforcement officers, as well as several workplace suicides, caused deaths due to workplace violence to spike upward in Washington State, the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I)...
Jan 29 2010 // Insurer Zurich said it is expanding its presence in the U.S. energy casualty insurance market by adding two new executives to its Commercial Energy Casualty business unit.Greg Cropp, vice president of Energy Excess...
Jan 27 2010 // State regulators say there were 34 accidental workplace deaths in North Carolina last year. The numbers released by the North Carolina Department of Labor show that accidental workplace fatalities dropped from 57 in 2008....
Jan 21 2010 // The Hanover won’t have to pay $26,000 in claims on behalf of a Connecticut contractor who accidentally knocked over the house he was working on, a Connecticut Superior Court has ruled.The decision comes from a...
Jan 14 2010 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency of San Diego has a new commercial package available in Cailfornia.As part of the commercial contractor suite of products, the Commercial Package product offers more than 170 eligible...