All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2020 // Tennessee small businesses that have been economically harmed as a result of the coronavirus outbreak can apply for U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loans, the state said.Small businesses and nonprofit...
Mar 25 2020 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based insurtech Coterie, which specializes in commercial insurance, has closed an oversubscribed Series A financing round totaling $8.5 million from RPM Ventures, Allos Ventures, and others.The company...
Mar 25 2020 // The Upton Group, LLC, a national insurance agency specializing in food delivery and restaurant insurance, has created a new website for restaurants and small businesses impacted by government orders to shut down to obtain...
Mar 25 2020 // ONI Risk Partners, an EPIC Company, has hired Brian Woods as a Commercial Insurance Risk Advisor in Kentucky. Wood will consult with mid-to-large commercial insurance clients in the Louisville area to identify, assess, and...
Mar 24 2020 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has issued Emergency Rule 37, which aims to expand access to telehealth services during the COVID-19 health emergency.The Louisiana Department of Insurance summarized the...
Mar 19 2020 // As companies and government agencies send their employees home to avoid contact with the coronavirus, many cyber-security teams are facing the unenviable challenge of securing sprawling, vulnerable networks.Every time an...
Mar 19 2020 // At lunch hour, James Leahy’s Burrito Joe stall in the City of London’s financial district is usually buzzing as people line up from around the corner for their fajitas, tacos, quesadillas and rice-and-meat...
Mar 18 2020 // Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has announced a $10 million small business recovery loan fund to help companies struggling because of efforts to slow the coronavirus pandemic. Baker said Monday the fund will provide...
Mar 17 2020 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has requested that the Small Business Administration (SBA) provide Economic Injury Disaster Loans for Orleans and Jefferson parishes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.While this request...
Mar 11 2020 // A bill shifting renewal of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) from offices of the Dept. of Motor Vehicles to local tag agencies passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives this afternoon.House Bill 1966 was...
Mar 11 2020 // The coronavirus outbreak has largely emptied Seattle’s usually busy downtown streets after Amazon and other companies told tens of thousands of people to work from home. That means far fewer customers for...
Mar 10 2020 // Can a press release save lives?No doubt about it. At least if it comes from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and it publicizes a serious violation of the occupational safety and health laws. The tale...
Mar 9 2020 // Small business doesn’t mean small-in-size when it comes to the commercial insurance market.Direct written premiums ranged between $99 billion and $103 billion in 2013, up from $91 billion in 2011, according to...
Mar 9 2020 // A U.S. labor board finalized a rule that will make it more difficult to hold companies liable for unlawful labor practices by franchisees and contractors, reversing a more worker-friendly Obama-era standard criticized by...
Mar 5 2020 // Insurance data analytics and risk modeling firm Verisk announced the expansion of its new insurtech solution OneXperience into commercial insurance.This expansion will enable agents and businesses to engage and closely...
Mar 4 2020 // Insureon, a Chicago-based digital distributor small business insurance, has created a new leadership team comprised of experts across the insurance, insurtech, and technology industries.Dan Kazan, CEO and member of the...
Mar 4 2020 // Over the past decade, selling small commercial insurance directly online to customers has gone from an outlandish idea to a reality. In a new report, research and advisory firm Novarica projects significant growth in the...
Mar 4 2020 // Pie Insurance, an insurtech offering workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses, has expanded its workers’ compensation insurance offering to Missouri. The addition increases Pie’s coverage area...
Mar 3 2020 // Citing loss development for prior underwriting years, Dallas-based specialty property/casualty insurer Hallmark Financial Services Inc., is exiting its Binding Primary Auto business.The commercial auto product the company...
Feb 27 2020 // Trieste, Italy meet Columbus, Ohio. Ciao! Hello!Two large insurers — Ohio’s Nationwide and Italy’s Generali — are teaming up to serve commercial insurance customers with global needs. The insurers announced...