All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2009 // Whether they’re young or old, entrepreneurs always have a hunger to come up with the next big idea, or to do something better than anyone else. That’s the spirit that lives in each and every small business...
Sep 25 2009 // Kentucky’s largest workers’ compensation insurance provider says it is lowering its rates for businesses around the state for the fourth consecutive year.The rate reduction by Kentucky Employers’ Mutual...
Sep 22 2009 // Continental Risk based in Lodi, Calif., is now offering a new business owners policy for small businesses that includes additional coverages outside of the typical property/casualty package.The program’s features...
Sep 21 2009 // A federal official who’s been studying Wyoming’s high rate of workplace fatalities said the state needs to foster an environment where workers regard following safety procedures as proof of their...
Sep 21 2009 // Phyllis Young and her co-worker and friend, Sarah Bales, won the hula-hoop contest and the balloon toss, making them the favorites to also win the three-legged sack race.Young and Bales didn’t win the sack race...
Sep 16 2009 // Independent insurance brokerage firm and Assurex Global partner, Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), has added sales executive Brand Daves to the Commercial Insurance division of its Fort Worth office. Daves joins...
Sep 15 2009 // North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue has signed into law stronger financial requirements for Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) operating in the state.The Professional Employer Organization Act (SB 1029), which...
Sep 15 2009 // A Pennsylvania pharmacy technician who says she was traumatized when a masked gunman burst into her store demanding the painkiller OxyContin is suing her employers for arranging the mock holdup.Babette Perry says in a...
Sep 15 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) announced a third arrest this month as part of the the agency’s statewide crackdown on employers who are alleged to have committed workers’ compensation fraud.Agents...
Sep 8 2009 // Craig Bacheler is able to offer the employees at his small Alabama IT firm health benefits because of a new state law, but some who helped push for the law say it is too early to measure its benefits.Small companies, those...
Sep 7 2009 // The theft of personal and private data — from credit card information, to Social Security numbers, to health information, is a thriving global crime — and it is fed by data security breaches that cost companies...
Sep 7 2009 // The theft of personal and private data — from credit card information, to Social Security numbers, to health information, is a thriving global crime — and it is fed by data security breaches that cost companies...
Sep 7 2009 // Just a short time after announcing it was leaving the California workers’ compensation insurance market because it was not profitable, direct writing Employers Direct Insurance Co. changed its tune and said it is...
Sep 4 2009 // Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with bankrupt First Commercial Insurance Co., which is in liquidation.Florida CFO...
Aug 26 2009 // Just a short time after announcing it was leaving the California workers’ compensation insurance market because it was not profitable, Employers Direct Insurance Co. is announcing it is back.The...
Aug 25 2009 // Occupational fatalities in Wyoming decreased 31 percent from 2007 to 2008, the biggest single-year drop since the state Department of Employment started its Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 1993.Department senior...
Aug 19 2009 // The annual Transamerica Retirement Survey reports that while nearly half of the U.S. employers surveyed have undertaken cost-cutting measures such as lay-offs and salary freezes, relatively few have reduced or eliminated...
Aug 18 2009 // Insurance Services Office (ISO) lists more than 100 endorsements available for use with the business auto policy (BAP) (the total number varies by state). Out of that heap of policy-altering endorsements, most designed to...
Aug 18 2009 // The Arkansas Insurance Department has issued a reminder that employers should not make direct payments for employees’ medical bills that were incurred on small workers’ compensation claims.The department says...
Aug 13 2009 // Several weeks ago, MyNewMarkets.com posted a two-part series regarding coverage gaps and selling to those gaps. “Gaps That Sell” and “Three Homeowners’ Policy Gaps that Sell” detailed the...