All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 11 2002 // If it seems like you’re seeing more drivers with phones stuck to their ears, it isn’t your imagination. There are more than 88 million cell phone users in this country —40,000 new subscribers every day—and...
Jan 30 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) is urging state insurance regulators to consider personal lines exclusions on a case-by-case basis for insurers that demonstrate the potential for solvency problems...
Jan 28 2002 // Fortune magazine has named Sweden’s Skandia as one of the one of the ten “greatest workplaces” in Europe, following a survey of journalists, securities analysts, business school professors, consultants...
Jan 28 2002 // Dire predictions have been floating around since September 11 regarding the availability and pricing of insurance coverage for commercial property, largely due to the issues surrounding terrorist exclusions and whopping...
Jan 17 2002 // According to PR Newswire, the insurance industry is showing the first signs of distress following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with major commercial property/casualty premiums uniformly on the upswing and confusion in...
Jan 16 2002 // Visibillity Inc. announced that Employers Mutual Casualty Company, a property and casualty insurer with headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, signed a three year contract valued at more than $1 million dollars for...
Jan 14 2002 // Commercial property owners throughout the nation can expect their insurance premiums to increase significantly in 2002 due to the impact of the Sept. 11 attacks on the insurance industry, according to Jenny Jones, CEO of...
Jan 11 2002 // AIG Global Trade and Political Risk Insurance Company, a member company of American International Group Inc. (AIG) has introduced a new political risk insurance coverage for small and mid-sized companies. AIG...
Jan 8 2002 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) announced that AIG Private Client Group, a division of the American International Companies, is offering employment practices liability coverage to protect individuals against...
Jan 7 2002 // As earlier reported (see IJ Website Dec. 27), CGNU is close to concluding a deal to sell its French commercial lines business, CGU Courtage, to French mutual insurer Groupama. The transaction highlights the restructuring...
Jan 4 2002 // Commercial property owners throughout the nation can expect their insurance premiums to make major leaps this year due to the repercussions of the Sept. 11 attacks rippling through the insurance industry, according to...
Dec 14 2001 // State insurance commissioners have advanced a model law to modernize commercial rate and form filings, with final approval possible in the spring.A working group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...
Nov 20 2001 // Lower Manhattan has suffered a catastrophic decline in tenants seeking office space since the destruction of the World Trade Center. According to a study by Newmark & Company published in the New York Times there are...
Nov 12 2001 // Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms.Carrie...
Nov 5 2001 // Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms.Carrie...
Nov 2 2001 // Local commercial insurance agents and brokers will gather Nov. 6 in Seattle to learn about the expanding scope and impact of e-commerce risks affecting businesses today, and how companies can identify e-risk exposures and...
Oct 30 2001 // W. R. Berkley Corporation reported that operating income, excluding losses related to the Sept. 11 event, was $11 million, or 36 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $9 million, or...
Oct 26 2001 // According to the recently released third-quarter Commercial Insurance Market Index — reflecting market observations of the largest commercial insurance brokers across the nation — commercial insurance premium...
Oct 26 2001 // The downward trend continued last year: the number of California workers killed on the job was the lowest since 1992 when the Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR)...
Oct 19 2001 // A new law modernizing regulation of commercial insurance, now in effect in Missouri, will stimulate competition by eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy.The new law, enacted as Senate Bill 186, specifies that all commercial...