All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2001 // France’s AXA and Britain’s Royal & Sun Alliance both announced that there would be large increases in their premium rates on commercial property coverage in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the...
Oct 10 2001 // In a move to further streamline its European operations, the U.K.’s CGNU announced that is seeking a buyer for its French unit, CGU Courtage, the country’s third largest commercial lines insurer, which deals...
Sep 26 2001 // American Modern Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Midland Company and a provider of manufactured housing specialty insurance products and services, has ceased offering commercial liability products for...
Sep 20 2001 // The Midland Company, a provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced that American Modern Insurance Group, its insurance subsidiary, will cease offering the commercial liability coverages associated with...
Sep 19 2001 // The Midland Company, a highly focused provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced that American Modern Insurance Group, its insurance subsidiary, will cease offering the commercial liability coverages...
Aug 31 2001 // Ninety-five percent of business executives report that workplace safety has a positive impact on a company’s financial performance, according to the findings of “The Executive Survey of Workplace Safety”...
Aug 30 2001 // According to Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), a workers’ compensation bill moving its way through the California Legislature doesn’t go far enough in attempts to reduce costs to reform the...
Aug 22 2001 // Insurance Reference Systems Inc. (Silver Plume), an AMS company, announced the introduction of Sage, a web-based, intelligent research tool that uses an insurance-specific, Internet-style engine to search its library of...
Aug 2 2001 // Travelers Insurance announced it will re-enter the Ohio insurance marketplace for new commercial auto and umbrella business with the enactment of the “Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Availability Act of...
Jul 31 2001 // Unisys Corporation announced that it has established an Internet-based Risk Trading Exchange for the global insurance/reinsurance marketplace. Enabling all market players to access and transact numerous types and classes...
Jul 12 2001 // Companies that use AT&T’s Internet Data Centers and managed web hosting services are eligible for a new benefit — e-business insurance from Marsh Inc. that rewards AT&T enterprise hosting customers...
Jul 5 2001 // AXA Insurance, the French giant’s U.K. unit, has acquired Independent Insurance’s small business website from the company’s liquidators. The site, www.business-risk.com, employs 17 people, who will be...
Jun 18 2001 // So I come across an e-mail or a site that tells me that if I subscribe to a Hewlett-Packard e-newsletter, that I’ll get a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Now, you know me, I can’t pass up free money when...
Jun 11 2001 // So I come across an e-mail or a site that tells me that if I subscribe to a Hewlett-Packard e-newsletter, that I’ll get a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Now, you know me, I can’t pass up free money when...
May 30 2001 // Legislation that would provide Superfund liability protection for small-businesses that disposed of municipal solid waste before April 1, 2001 recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives.According to Julie...
May 29 2001 // A recent Conning & Company survey of insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. indicates that price increases have continued to accelerate and are in double-digit territory for most commercial lines. In addition,...
May 25 2001 // More than 2,000 risk management professionals from around the world are expected to attend North America’s largest meeting of government risk management practitioners in Chicago from June 10-13, 2001.Programming for...
May 21 2001 // A bill by Assemblyman Thomas M. Calderon (D-Montebello) that would prohibit insurance carriers from refusing to issue or renew an auto insurance policy based solely on an individual’s credit rating was approved by...
May 18 2001 // SAFECO announced plans to consolidate its commercial operations and focus on insurance for small-to-medium sized businesses. The new SAFECO Business Insurance enterprise will be headquartered in Seattle, with five...
May 18 2001 // Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. added Fireman’s Fund’s The Fund Umbrella® product to its wholesale website, superioraccess.com. e.XST™ is available in 21 states including California, Texas, Illinois,...