All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2008 // Employers often use tests and other selection procedures to screen applicants when hiring and evaluating employees for promotion. In fact, there has been an increase in employment testing due in part to post-9/11 security...
Feb 10 2008 // The North Carolina Labor Department says workplace deaths dropped 29 percent statewide in 2007, down to 46 from 65 the year before.The leading cause of workplace death was being crushed, with those accidents having claimed...
Feb 5 2008 // Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. will automatically include $100,000 of employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) in most commercial policies starting in April.This change gives agents an additional selling tool,...
Feb 5 2008 // The Republic Group (Republic), based in Dallas, has entered the personal lines market in Arkansas, the company announced. Republic entered the state with its commercial lines products in December 2007.Republic companies...
Jan 28 2008 // Employers can fire workers found to have used medical marijuana even if it was legally prescribed, the California Supreme Court ruled last Thursday, dealing the state another setback in its standoff with U.S. law...
Jan 27 2008 // Employers often use test and other selection procedures to screen applicants when hiring and evaluating employees for promotion. In fact, there has been an increase in employment testing due in part to post 9/11 security...
Jan 27 2008 // Stock Prices: Commercial lines insurers’ stocks have been relatively flat in 2007. Chubb Corp. (NYSE:CB) posted the largest gain at 5 percent.M&A Activity: The fourth quarter started with a bang as two large...
Jan 25 2008 // Amid the turbulence of the plunging stock market, there’s a great opportunity for small business owners — if they set up retirement plans now, they’ll position themselves and their employees for big gains...
Jan 25 2008 // Michael P. Welch recently joined Vermont Mutual Insurance Group in Montpelier as a commercial lines underwriter. Welch spent the past 11 years with Underwriters Agency of New England as assistant vice president of...
Jan 23 2008 // The North Carolina Labor Department says workplace deaths dropped 29 percent statewide in 2007, down to 46 from 65 the year before.The leading cause of workplace death was being crushed, with those accidents having claimed...
Jan 23 2008 // January 23 2008 – Orange, CA – G.J. Sullivan Co., a member of Los Angeles-based The Sullivan Group, has appointed Sharon Haenig as Commercial Lines Manager for its office in Orange, CA. Sharon will be...
Jan 22 2008 // Announcing plans for major growth in the Texas marketplace, State Auto Middle Market Insurance (SAMMI), said it will host an open house Jan. 28 in its new office in Austin to celebrate the unit’s entrance into the...
Jan 22 2008 // G.J. Sullivan Co., a member of Los Angeles-based The Sullivan Group, has appointed Sharon Haenig as commercial lines manager for its office in Orange, Calif. Haenig will be responsible for business development and market...
Jan 17 2008 // Average prices for all lines of commercial insurance decreased 4 percent to 5 percent between 2006 and 2007, according to Towers Perrin’s commercial insurance pricing study. More specifically, the survey data for the...
Jan 16 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘AA-‘ financial strength rating on Westport Insurance Corp. and then withdrew the rating at the request of management. The outlook had been...
Jan 14 2008 // Commercial lines insurance premiums continued to tumble during the fourth quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, an industry survey of policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk managers.Despite...
Jan 13 2008 // Employers often use test and other selection procedures to screen applicants when hiring and evaluating employees for promotion. In fact, there has been an increase in employment testing due in part to post 9/11 security...
Jan 11 2008 // Employers Holdings, Inc. of Reno, Nev., reports it has agreed to acquire AmCOMP Inc. for approximately $230 million, including the assumption of $37 million in debt.The acquisition will expand Employers’...
Jan 10 2008 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to propose a 1.25 percent tax on homeowners and business property insurance policies when he unveils his state budget today.“The expected proposal will unfairly force...
Jan 8 2008 // On Dec. 26, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (TRIPRA), thereby retaining the federal backstop for terrorism risk through Dec. 31, 2014.The...