All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Aug 15 2022 // Independent agents once again show they continue to command the commercial insurance market.The independent agency channel placed 62% of all property/casualty insurance written in the U.S., according to the recently...
Aug 15 2022 // The supply chain crisis has seared itself into popular imagination through empty shelves where toilet paper once stood and a desperate shortage of baby formula. But the ripple effects that emanate from globally disrupted...
Aug 12 2022 // The New York State Insurance Fund reported that it returned more than $550 million over the past year to businesses through its workers’ compensation safety discounts and dividends programs.The state agency provides...
Aug 10 2022 // An employee fired for unsolicitedly sleepwalking into a colleague’s hotel room during an out-of-town conference has no disability discrimination claim, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...