All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 25 2009 // Capitol Insurance Companies (Capitol) based in Middleton, Wis., has launched a commercial automobile insurance product.The company said the product is available for appointed insurance agents and brokers through a newly...
Jun 24 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” to CastlePoint Florida Insurance Co. (CFIC) of Fort Lauderdale. The rating firm said the outlook...
Jun 23 2009 // Eight months after North Dakota voters gave Gov. John Hoeven the final word on state workers’ compensation rates, employers’ insurance bills are likely to rise as a consequence of the recent bleak market for...
Jun 23 2009 // The Supreme Court of Texas has ruled that employers generally do not owe a duty to third parties for the activities of off duty employees that occur away from the work site, even if those activities ultimately lead to a...
Jun 22 2009 // Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation designed to make health insurance coverage for workers laid off from small businesses more affordable. Under federal legislation, people who formerly worked at firms of 20 employees or...
Jun 19 2009 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. announced Standard & Poor’s will add it to the S&P 600 SmallCap Index. The S&P 600 is considered the preferred small capitalization-market index in the United...
Jun 19 2009 // Despite the economic turmoil and the second worst year for insured natural catastrophe losses, the total cost of risk paid by businesses dropped in 2008 by 9.4 percent per $1,000 of revenue.The drop was largely...
Jun 17 2009 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a double dismissal of a workers’ compensation appeal does not entitle an employer to a refund of compensation benefits from the state.Specifically, according to the Ohio high...
Jun 5 2009 // For the first time, an Illinois business has been closed down for failure to obtain workers¹ compensation insurance. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and the City of Evanston shut down All Good Dogs Pet...
May 22 2009 // A 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that allows Oklahomans to store firearms in locked vehicles parked on company property will stand after the filing deadline passed for further legal appeals, Attorney General Drew...
May 21 2009 // The Swiss Re Group has announced the appointment, effective immediately, of Rudolf Flunger as Head of Insurance & Specialty, the company’s division responsible for commercial insurance, industrial insurance,...
May 19 2009 // Simon Noonan, senior vice president and president of Bristol West Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Farmers Group Inc., has been promoted to chief operating officer of Farmers Business Insurance. Noonan joined Bristol West...
May 18 2009 // Influenza is nothing new. Seasonal flu epidemics — disease outbreaks with more cases than normal— occur annually killing between 250,000 to 500,000 people worldwide. While most deaths associated with influenza...
May 8 2009 // The Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill that will allow small businesses to claim state franchise tax exemptions for income up to $1 million, at least temporarily.House Bill 4765, joint-authored by Ken Paxton...
May 7 2009 // Employers Holdings Inc. headquartered in Reno, Nev., reported first quarter 2009 net income of $20.9 million or $0.43 per share compared with $25.5 million or $0.51 per share in the first quarter of 2008, a decrease of...
May 1 2009 // Marsh has appointed Joe Grogan to lead its Middle Market business in the UK and Ireland. In addition to these responsibilities, he will also retain leadership of Marsh’s operations in the Republic of Ireland, where...
Apr 28 2009 // Businesses and nonprofits are being urged to examine their ability to operate in the event of a flu pandemic.With the federal government declaring Swine Flu a public-health emergency, the Institute for Business & Home...
Apr 28 2009 // A workplace safety task force that’s examining why Wyoming has one of the highest worker fatality rates in the country plans to meet in Cheyenne this week.The state’s oil and natural gas industries are a...
Apr 27 2009 // A new report says workplace accident deaths in Michigan have dropped significantly in the past two years.Michigan State University reported that 120 workers died on the job in Michigan in 2007, down from 157 in 2006. The...
Apr 24 2009 // Small-business owners are concerned about their retirement savings, nearly half have put a freeze on hiring, they are drinking way more caffeine than they used to — but at least they haven’t given up on...