All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 2 2007 // Employers will have to pay the full cost for almost all personal safety equipment used by their workers, the Labor Department said recently, a move advocates say will prevent thousands of on-the-job injuries.The...
Nov 30 2007 // Another very profitable year for commercial lines insurers, sparked by yet another exceptionally mild hurricane season, is emerging for the entire U.S. property/casualty industry, says Standard & Poor’s Ratings...
Nov 28 2007 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has a new small business employment practices liability insurance coverage (for companies with 10 full time employees or less) featuring higher commissions. This new EPLI...
Nov 28 2007 // Zurich North America announced it has added 100 monoline workers’ comp business classifications to its coverage offerings. Most of the new classes are for light manufacturing, wholesale and service company risks. The...
Nov 20 2007 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. reported results for the third quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2007. Consolidated net income was $29.9 million, or $0.58 per share, for the third quarter of 2007, compared...
Nov 19 2007 // Employers will have to pay the full cost for almost all personal safety equipment used by their workers, the Labor Department said recently, a move advocates say will prevent thousands of on-the-job injuries.The...
Nov 4 2007 // Stock Prices: Commercial property/casualty insurer stocks have been relatively flat through the third quarter of 2007. Chubb Corp. (NYSE:CB) had the largest gains for the year, up a modest 3 percent.M&A Activity: The...
Nov 1 2007 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that workplace injuries and accidents declined in California in 2006 in all but four of 19 key industries compared to 2005.Overall workplace injuries and...
Oct 29 2007 // The Harry W. Gorst Co. of Chatsworth, Calif., has promoted LaTanya Taylor to commercial lines underwriter. Taylor began her career in insurance in 1989 at a large California wholesaler, in which she specialized as a tech...
Oct 27 2007 // The insurance buying habits of the typical small commercial customer haven’t changed much in 15 to 20 years, yet the small business owner may be in more need of the added protection given by the purchase of a...
Oct 26 2007 // Okemos, MI October 26, 2007 – NetRate Systems, Inc. (Okemos, MI), a leading supplier of ISO® Commercial Lines Rating software for the MGA and carrier marketplace, has announced the availability of component objects...
Oct 25 2007 // Gina Wallisa will be joining State Auto Middle Markets’ (SAMMI) Texas office effective Oct.29, 2007, the company reported. Wallisa will serve as the zone underwriting manager responsible for executing regional...
Oct 24 2007 // Canton, Mass.-based One Beacon Insurance Group announced Tuesday that it will begin offering property-casualty products to small-business owners in Indiana through independent agent partners. OneBeacon’s local...
Oct 24 2007 // Statistics show the number of fatal work injuries in Maryland rose to 105 last year, an increase of 10 from the year before.The figure also represents the highest annual total since the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Oct 22 2007 // Fewer Iowans died from workplace injuries in 2006, a year in which 23 percent of work-related deaths involved car crashes, the Department of Labor said Friday.There were 71 fatal work-related injuries last year, a decrease...
Oct 19 2007 // The Harry W. Gorst Co. based in Chatsworth, Calif., has promoted Sharon Babic to commercial lines underwriter. Babic began her career in insurance in 2003 as an account technician at a retail agency in Woodland Hills,...
Oct 18 2007 // The Indiana Department of Labor recently reported a 5.2 percent drop in the number of workplace injuries and illnesses in 2006 from the year before. The figures are compiled in a survey by the federal Bureau of Labor...
Oct 16 2007 // Liberty Mutual Property, part of the Liberty Mutual Group, introduced a new commercial real estate product, RM Custom Select Commercial Real Estate. This new product features coverage enhancements designed to complement...
Oct 12 2007 // Considerable attention, both in blogs and in popular media, has been given to abusive bosses over the past few years. (See the Web sites HateBoss.com and WorkRant.com, for example.) Less discussed are employees’...
Oct 2 2007 // Steady erosion of commercial insurance industry pricing continued during the third quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk...