Latest Business Insurance Headlines

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Small Businesses Underestimate Recovery Time, Cost of Cyberattack

Sep 26 2022 // Nationwide Agency Forward survey showed 40% of small business owners surveyed expect a cyberattack to cost less than $1,000 and another 60% think it would take less than three months to fully recover.However, Nationwide...

Oregon Hospital Issued Workplace Safety Fines

Sep 23 2022 // The Oregon State Hospital is facing a $54,000 fine for failing to investigate workplace injuries.The citation, brought by the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, alleges that from January 2021 to...

Markets/Coverages: Travelers, Google Cloud to Build Data System to Underwrite Commercial Risk

Sep 22 2022 // Google Cloud and The Travelers Companies said they are working together to create a cloud-based data ecosystem that will help Travelers’ underwriters more efficiently evaluate risks for large and middle market...

Gallagher Re Taps Aon’s Bowen as Chief Science Officer; Aon Names Jursa CEO of Commercial Risk, Czech Republic; Gridel Joins Howden M&A to Lead Europe Biz Devel

Sep 19 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Gallagher Re, Aon and Howden M&A.A summary of these new hires follows here. Gallagher Re Names Aon’s Bowen as Chief Science OfficerGallagher Re,...

Illinois Contractor Fined for Deadly Workplace Exposures

Sep 19 2022 // A Roselle, Illinois contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations who currently owes more than $390,000 in penalties, added an additional $303,105 in proposed fines for once again exposing workers...

New Jersey Cannabis Regulator Issues Employers’ Guidance for Workplaces

Sep 16 2022 // New Jersey has issued guidance for workplaces to support employers’ right to create and maintain safe work environments, as well as affirm employees’ right to due process.According to the guidance and...

Full-Year Commercial Lines Combined Ratio May Be Lowest in 15 Years: Moody’s

Sep 15 2022 // With commercial lines insurers expected to report the lowest full-year aggregate combined ratio in 15 years, together with double-digit direct premium growth, Moody’s Investors Service announced a stable outlook for...

People Moves: JMBI Names Goldstein as President; VIAA Hires Pair of Commercial Marketers

Sep 13 2022 // JMB Insurance Agency Announces Goldstein’s Promotion to PresidentJMB Insurance Agency, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, has named Kimberly Goldstein as the firm’s inaugural president for strategic...

Sam Frihart Joins Breckenridge Insurance Specialty Property Program Team as Commercial Property Underwriter

Sep 12 2022 // ATLANTA, Georgia, September 12, 2022 — Breckenridge Insurance welcomes Sam Frihart as a commercial property underwriter to its specialty property program team. Frihart has four years of underwriting experience on the...

Price Increases Continue at 6% for U.S. Commercial Insurance in Q2: WTW

Sep 12 2022 // U.S. commercial insurance prices increased again during the second quarter 2022, according to WTW’s latest Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS).The aggregate commercial price change reported by carriers...

Illinois Trucking Repair Company Fined $326,000 for Workplace Hazards

Sep 9 2022 // A 48-year-old worker entered a tanker-trailer in Lemont, Illinois to inspect it as part of an annual U.S. Department of Transportation requirement and was overcome from exposure to bleach and chlorine gas. The worker was...

Lexington Starts Middle Market Casualty Group for SMEs

Sep 8 2022 // AIG’s Lexington Insurance Company today announced the launch of the Lexington Middle Market Casualty team, a group of dedicated underwriters focused on providing insurance coverage exclusively to...

People Moves: 2 Middle Market Industry Leaders at Zurich; Tadmoury Head of Global Middle Market at AFM; New EVP, Cyber Team Expands at Gallagher Re

Sep 8 2022 // Zurich North America names new U.S. Middle Market industry practice leadersZurich North America has named two new industry practice leaders to its U.S. Middle Market team. Erin Terpack was appointed head of technology and...

Labor Board to Expand Companies’ ‘Joint Employer’ Liability

Sep 7 2022 // A U.S. labor board on Tuesday moved to make it easier for workers and unions to hold companies liable for labor law violations by their franchisees and contractors, proposing to revive an Obama-era standard heavily...

Paper Finds Employers Increasingly Willing to Hire Workers With Criminal Records

Sep 2 2022 // Newswise — A new paper in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that many American businesses are willing to hire workers with criminal records. Such companies become even...

Commercial Auto Insurtech Fairmatic Raises $42M

Aug 31 2022 // Insurtech Fairmatic, founded by Jonathan Matus, a former Android and Facebook mobile executive, announced a $42 million Series A funding round to further expand its investment in the performance-priced fleet insurance...

Illinois Contractor Faces $303,000 in Fines for Deadly Workplace Exposures

Aug 29 2022 // A Roselle, Illinois contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations who currently owes more than $390,000 in penalties, added an additional $303,105 in proposed fines for once again exposing workers...

Small Business Satisfaction With Commercial Insurers Resurges: J.D. Power

Aug 24 2022 // A toxic combination of business disruption and economic uncertainty strained the relationship between small businesses and their commercial line insurers during the pandemic, causing customer satisfaction to decline...

Global Commercial Insurance Rates Rise 9%, Continuing Moderating Trend: Marsh

Aug 15 2022 // Global commercial insurance prices increased 9% in the second quarter of 2022 (down from an 11% increase in Q1), continuing a trend of moderating rate increases that began in Q1 2021, according to the Global Insurance...

Agents Expects Big Jump in Online Commercial Insurance Shopping: Survey Reports

Aug 15 2022 // A majority of independent insurance agents (53%) are expecting a significant increase in online commercial insurance buyers over the next three years, according to a survey from Semsee, a platform for small-commercial...