All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2004 // Chicago-based CNA Financial Corp. announced that Larry Illion has joined CNA insurance companies as senior vice president of CNA Small Business, a $650-million business operation. Prior to joining CNA, Illion worked for...
Oct 21 2004 // Citing concerns that Minnesota businesses and their employees may have been affected by alleged “bid rigging,” Gov. Tim Pawlenty has asked Commerce Commissioner Glenn Wilson to review the relationship between...
Oct 19 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default.The injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...
Oct 13 2004 // Houston-based Myron F. Steves & Company announced an expansion of its Commercial Standard Lines department. Zurich North America Small Business has been added as a part of the group of companies currently...
Oct 13 2004 // Texas’ workers’ compensation system is one of the worst in the nation with skyrocketing costs, mediocre care and a poor record of getting workers back on the job, according to Texans for Workers’...
Oct 11 2004 // Business owners who debate the need for insurance coverage have learned an invaluable lesson from hurricanes Charley and Frances, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI). In the aftermath...
Oct 11 2004 // According to a joint federal and state survey, Florida workplaces had seven fewer fatal accidents in 2003 than the previous year, including a decrease in the number of Hispanic workers killed. The Census of Fatal...
Oct 7 2004 // AIG Excess Casualty(R), a division of the property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc., announced the launch of AIG ExcessAdvantage, described as “a new program designed to...
Oct 1 2004 // Insurer Ohio Casualty Corp. announced that Jeffery L. Haniewich, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the commercial lines division of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Co., has left to pursue other career...
Sep 24 2004 // According to a joint federal and state survey, Florida workplaces had seven fewer fatal accidents in 2003 than the previous year, including a decrease in the number of Hispanic workers killed.The Census of Fatal...
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Sep 20 2004 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved plans to implement a limited servicing carrier program for the state’s commercial auto residual market as proposed by Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers...
Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: AXIS U.S. Insurance’s excess and surplus property unit is now offering property insurance coverage for U.S.-based lumber, wood products and furniture risks. The underwriting of this specialized...
Sep 16 2004 // Chicago magazine has ranked the commercial lines carrier Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. No. 2 out of the top 25 places to work in Chicago. The magazine determined the 25 best employers in Chicago with the help of the...
Sep 14 2004 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich has named Robert Lindemann president of the middle markets business unit of its North American commercial business division. Lindemann brings 29 years of commercial insurance experience with...
Sep 9 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has issued a bulletin, which notes: “Business owners who debate the need for insurance coverage can learn a valuable lesson from Hurricanes Charley and...
Sep 7 2004 // General Electric has announced that it intends to unify the branding of its reinsurance and commercial insurance products and services as GE Insurance Solutions.“The name change is significant, yet it’s just...
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: AXIS U.S. Insurance’s excess and surplus property unit is now offering property insurance coverage for U.S.-based lumber, wood products and furniture risks. The underwriting of this specialized...
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: AXIS U.S. Insurance’s excess and surplus property unit is now offering property insurance coverage for U.S.-based lumber, wood products and furniture risks. Covered risks include logging...
Aug 23 2004 // A recent follow-up survey by the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) found that many companies and organizations in all industries have yet to address the problem of workplace violence. ASSE said its Risk...