All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2006 // News CurrentsEmployers’ costs for workers’ compensation grew faster than combined cash benefits for injured workers and medical payments for their treatment, according to a new study issued by the National...
Aug 1 2006 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has begun enrolling employers who want to participate in a new way of reporting claims for workplace injuries and occupational diseases. Injured workers in...
Aug 1 2006 // West Virginia employers who haven’t made a premium payment for the second half of 2006 to insurer BrickStreet have one last opportunity to retain workers’ compensation coverage.BrickStreet mailed more than...
Aug 1 2006 // West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance provider has a lofty goal: to audit every one of West Virginia’s 38,000 employers this year.That would require an unprecedented 200 audits a day, and may be...
Jul 30 2006 // Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is considering a state-run reinsurance pool or joint underwriting pool to help businesses that can’t get policies from private insurers, saying that if companies can’t get coverage, it...
Jul 27 2006 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Insurance Group announced it is expanding its market for workers’ compensation insurance and services to small businesses throughout the states of Texas and Arizona. Insurance is being...
Jul 26 2006 // Employers’ costs for workers’ compensation grew faster than combined cash benefits for injured workers and medical payments for their treatment, according to a new study issued today by the National Academy of...
Jul 25 2006 // West Virginia has delinquent workers’ compensation payments valued at $11.4 million outstanding as of July 13, with 5,450 employers overdue on their payments to BrickStreet Mutual, according to Insurance Commissioner...
Jul 25 2006 // A new online marine general liability and maritime employers liability rating program has been announced by LIG Marine Managers in St. Petersburg, Fla. The “Thunderstorm” program is designed to provide 24/7...
Jul 24 2006 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission is cracking down on an estimated 2,000 employers in the state who do not have workers’ compensation insurance, which is required by law.When an employee of an uninsured employer...
Jul 24 2006 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission is cracking down on an estimated 2,000 employers in the state who do not have workers’ compensation insurance, which is required by law.When an employee of an uninsured employer...
Jul 17 2006 // Gov. Matt Blunt recently signed legislation aimed at increasing access to affordable health insurance for employees of small businesses.The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jay Wasson, R-Nixa, expands eligibility for association...
Jul 14 2006 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich, one of the nation’s largest commercial property-casualty insurance companies, has announced that it is expanding the number of subclasses of businesses its small business division will...
Jul 6 2006 // Massachusetts officials have unveiled proposed regulations that would set the minimum a company would have to do to be exempt from a new $295 per-worker assessment as part of the state’s new health care law.Health...
Jul 6 2006 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission is cracking down on the estimated 2,000 employers in the state that do not have workers’ compensation insurance, which is required by law.When an employee of an uninsured...
Jul 6 2006 // Commercial and industrial operations, ownership interests, and companies with multi-state locations have a new option from OneBeacon Insurance for safeguarding themselves against loss.With Flex, its new property product,...
Jul 3 2006 // No one would argue that today’s society is possibly the most litigious in U.S. history. Large jury awards that make headlines only spur on many that otherwise may have backed away from action.The insurance industry,...
Jul 3 2006 // Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine has signed a General Assembly bill that allows small businesses to collectively purchase health insurance, a measure supporters hope will help address health care concerns within the...
Jul 3 2006 // No one would argue that today’s society is possibly the most litigious in U.S. history. Large jury awards that make headlines only spur on many that otherwise may have backed away from action.The insurance industry,...
Jun 23 2006 // The Supreme Court has affirmed a jury award for a Tennessee forklift operator who was transferred to a more physical job after she filed a lawsuit accusing her employer of sexual harassment.By a 9-0 vote, justices said...