All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2019 // Employers in Montana reported a total of 14,100 workplace injuries and illnesses in 2018, with 11,900 of those injuries in the private industry. Of those private industry injuries and illnesses, 5,700 were serious enough...
Nov 18 2019 // Ongoing rate increases and reductions in capacity are taking shape in most property/casualty commercial lines in the fourth quarter–and for some, will continue into the new year, according to a recent report from...
Nov 15 2019 // A Tulsa, Oklahoma, man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to repay nearly $370,000 after being found guilty of stealing from his employer.Ernest Everette Howard, 49, of Tulsa, must $368,329.61 in restitution,...
Nov 15 2019 // North American commercial insurance buyers will face sizable price increases in 2020, across most lines of insurance, according to insurance broker Willis Towers Watson’s 2020 Insurance Marketplace Realities.While...
Nov 13 2019 // Regulators have recommended a nearly $73,000 fine against the Iowa Department of Human Services after finding serious workplace safety violations at a state-run psychiatric hospital where several employees have been...
Nov 12 2019 // Ongoing rate increases and reductions in capacity are taking shape in most property/casualty commercial lines in the fourth—and for some, will continue into the new year, according to a recent report from broker USI...
Nov 7 2019 // A woman who worked as a bookkeeper has been charged in Maryland with fraudulently obtaining approximately $1 million from her employers.Lisa Fore was charged Monday in federal court with four counts of mail fraud and one...
Nov 5 2019 // Authorities say a mother and son who worked for a Georgia alcohol distributor embezzled more than $3 million from their employer over a decade. Sheriff’s investigators in Bibb County, Georgia, arrested 72-year-old...
Nov 4 2019 // Progressive has a competitive edge over long-term players in the commercial auto insurance market and national carriers outpace regionals on workers’ compensation profit measures, according to a new report from Guy...
Nov 4 2019 // This is an important time for the insurance industry, as companies across 34 countries recently joined together in celebration of diversity and inclusion (D&I) through the 2019 Dive In Festival. Dive In has played a...
Nov 4 2019 // The #MeToo movement has brought changes to America’s workplaces. According to a recent poll, roughly one-third of American workers say they’ve changed how they act at work in the past year as the recent...
Nov 4 2019 // In a recent Insurance Journal poll, only 12% of independent agents reported that their small business customers have contacted them about increased risks and exposures that arise during the holiday season. While alarming,...
Nov 1 2019 // Hudson Insurance Group has made two appointments in its commercial auto business. Chris Homewood has been named senior vice president and head of Hudson’s commercial auto unit, while Ron Honken has been appointed...
Nov 1 2019 // Massachusetts-based online personal insurance marketplace EverQuote has launched a commercial lines marketplace in a new partnership with the technology platform provider Bold Penguin.EverQuote said it will use Bold...
Oct 29 2019 // Deborah Bishop joined Houston-based independent insurance agency, Insgroup, as senior vice president of Commercial Lines. In this role, Bishop leads the teams that service the firm’s commercial clients. She is...
Oct 29 2019 // Chubb announced the appointment of Jonathan Poole as head of Middle Market for the UK and Ireland.In this role Poole will have overall responsibility for Chubb’s Middle Market strategy for the UK and Ireland which...
Oct 28 2019 // Midwest Employers Casualty (MEC), a Berkley Company, has named Nathan Cox as vice president of sales. He succeeds Steven Link, who is retiring. The appointment is effective immediately. Cox will be responsible for revenue,...
Oct 28 2019 // Barbara Myers started work as an apprentice electrician in 1995, and over the years she learned to shoot back sexual banter on the job site as much as she had to take it from some of her coworkers.Those days, she says, are...
Oct 28 2019 // A Connecticut woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling about $370,000 from her former employer.Federal prosecutors say 36-year-old Lydia Cabrera, of Southington, pleaded guilty to bank fraud. Authorities say Cabrera was a...
Oct 25 2019 // EverQuote Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based, online insurance marketplace in the U.S., has hired Shivi Shankaran as executive vice president of Commercial Insurance and Special Projects. Shankaran previously spent nearly 15...