All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 3 2022 // New state rules require access to water, shade and breaks on hot days, but workers say they’re still laboring in unsafe conditions.Skyler Fischer is forklift driver at a Fred Meyer distribution center in the town of...
Aug 3 2022 // Beazley strengthens its North American Commercial Property offeringBeazley said it restructured its large commercial property division along with its Canadian and E&S property teams to create a single North American...
Aug 2 2022 // Maryland’s wage and hour law may extend beyond the time an employee spends at a prescribed workspace to include time spent getting to the work site using transportation required by the employer, Maryland’s...
Aug 1 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 1 2022 // Directors and officers insurance has been pricey and tough to obtain for cannabis companies since the industry started requiring coverage.D&O is difficult in most business sectors (For more on that check out:...
Aug 1 2022 // Premium renewal rate changes for all major commercial lines of business increased year over year with the exception of the workers’ compensation line, which remained negative, according to the Ivans Index second...
Aug 1 2022 // Some 93% of small business owners are worried that the United States will enter a recession in the next six months, a recent survey released by Goldman Sachs showed, with a majority of firms saying the country was headed...
Jul 29 2022 // AXA XL promotes Chris Lee to Head of E&S property; Mathew Waters to Lead Middle MarketAXA XL has promoted Christopher Lee to lead its excess & surplus property insurance business. Based in New York, he reports to...