All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2019 // Federal workplace safety officials have proposed $302,147 in penalties against a Family Dollar Store in Omaha, Nebraska.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited...
Jun 11 2019 // IronPro, the professional liability unit of Ironshore, has introduced a two-term policy endorsement for its miscellaneous professional liability (MPL) product for small business accounts.The MPL policy endorsement was...
Jun 11 2019 // Commercial insurance prices in the U.S. increased in the first quarter about 2%, according to insurance broker and advisor Willis Towers Watson.The company’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS) survey...
Jun 6 2019 // Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (PPCI) has entered the Kansas commercial auto insurance market as an admitted carrier specializing in distressed and substandard risks.With PPCI, producers now have an insurance...
Jun 5 2019 // More than 1 in 10 people with a range of non-cancerous lung diseases may be sick as a result of inhaling vapors, gas, dust or fumes at work, according to a joint American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory...
Jun 4 2019 // Western Growers Insurance Services Inc. has named Natalie Berend senior director of commercial lines. Berend will lead the account management team and is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating operational...
Jun 4 2019 // AAdvantage Insurance Group in Glen Carbon, Illinois, has hired Amy Glowacki as a commercial marketer.In this position, she will assist agents in generating quotes and proposals for the company’s commercial insurance...
Jun 4 2019 // AXA XL Insurance has partnered with IPRS Health to launch an employer’s liability insurance solution, AXA XL HealthAssist, for UK organizations.With workplace injury and new cases of work-related ill-health costing...
May 31 2019 // Global insurance broker Aon is partnering with digital insurance platform CoverWallet to serve clients in Australia.The parties also said they are in the process of expanding this partnership to additional geographies,...
May 22 2019 // New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu was surrounded by the family of a deceased highway department worker as he signed a bill aimed at improving workplace safety for New Hampshire’s public sector employees. Tom...
May 21 2019 // Brian Winters has been appointed head of Sales and Distribution, U.S. Commercial Insurance, for Zurich North America.Zurich said the appointment is part of its effort to strengthen relationships with customers and brokers....
May 20 2019 // A common hiring philosophy used for generations is being flipped on its head by new research from Florida State University.Screening job applicants based on their prior work experience is often a mistake among employers,...
May 20 2019 // The top three risks facing UK risk managers are reputational damage, Brexit and cyber attacks, according to Aon’s 2019 Global Risk Management Survey of thousands of risk managers across 60 countries and 33...
May 20 2019 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has determined that state law does not expressly prohibit a clause in a commercial property insurance policy that specifies that any coverage dispute ending up in litigation must be heard in a...
May 20 2019 // Amazon has resolved the workplace violations cited against the online retail giant’s temporary distribution center in Idaho.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the company’s modular...
May 17 2019 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has determined that state law does not expressly prohibit a clause in a commercial property insurance policy that specifies that any coverage dispute ending up in litigation must be heard in a...
May 16 2019 // California Insurance agent Francis Okyere, 67, self-surrendered this week at the Los Angeles County Superior Court after being charged with four felony counts of grand theft.The charges arose from an investigation by the...
May 16 2019 // Average global commercial insurance prices increased 3% in the first quarter of2019, according to broker Marsh.This represents the sixth consecutive quarter of average commercial insurance pricing increases, Marsh said in...
May 15 2019 // Des Moines, Iowa-based Employers Mutual Casualty Co. (EMCC) and EMC Insurance Group Inc. (EMCI) have entered into a mutual agreement under which EMCC will acquire all the remaining shares of EMCI that it does not currently...
May 15 2019 // Employers deploying wearables in the workplace are possibly exposing themselves to more risk than they realize by collecting more data than they need.While some firms may want to deploy the technologies as much as...