All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2017 // Companies that contested Nevada workplace safety citations after an employee died on the job received reduced fines about half the time.An analysis of state and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Sep 25 2017 // Commercial lines insurer CNA has announced the appointment of Greg Dasher to vice president of underwriting for its Small Business segment. Dasher will be responsible for the small business segment’s strategic and...
Sep 25 2017 // American International Group is reorganizing its underwriting businesses into three main segments—General Insurance, Life & Retirement, and a standalone technology-enabled platform—the company announced today.The...
Sep 22 2017 // At Philip Tulkoff’s food-processing plant in Baltimore, machines grind tough horseradish roots into puree. “If you put your arm in the wrong place,” the owner says, “and you’re not paying...
Sep 21 2017 // Businesses and their leaders have a unique role to play in helping communities and individuals recover from the devastation of a storm like Hurricane Harvey, and they should not underestimate the power of getting employees...
Sep 21 2017 // Unemployment is the biggest risk for businesses globally, according to a World Economic Forum survey of business leaders published on Wednesday.The company executives put unemployment or underemployment as the top risk...
Sep 18 2017 // Employers expect that their average cost per-employee for health benefits will rise by 4.3 percent in 2018, which is above the average increase of 3 percent of the past five years.Early responses from Mercer’s...
Sep 18 2017 // Two years ago, a robot crushed a 22-year-old man to death at a Volkswagen AG factory in Germany after the maintenance worker became trapped in an area usually off-bound to humans. While this type of tragedy is still...
Sep 15 2017 // Companies that contested Nevada workplace safety citations after an employee died on the job received reduced fines about half the time.An analysis of state and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Sep 14 2017 // MJ Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., has added Olivia A. Lahr and Amy Wells to the commercial insurance and risk management team as risk transfer specialists.Lahr and Wells will be responsible for developing...
Sep 14 2017 // Digital small business insurance provider Next Insurance has unveiled a new online portal giving small businesses more control over their insurance policies. The portal offers what Next says are several unique insurance...
Sep 14 2017 // Borrowing ideas from some insurtech startups, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty has a new platform for brokers and their Main Street customers “from barber shops to bakeries and toy stores to tailor.”The...
Sep 13 2017 // Hurricane Harvey could upend a trend of nearly flat commercial insurance prices that has continued since 2015, Willis Towers Watson said in its latest industry survey.“Insurers are bracing for a significant volume of...
Sep 7 2017 // Josh Beasley and his fiancé bought Houston’s Body3 Personal Fitness on July 1, less than two months before Tropical Storm Harvey swamped the gym with a foot of water and left behind the dank stench of fetid...
Sep 4 2017 // The insurance community has at least two reasons to be interested in a new report on middle market companies, particularly those who are doing business in California.According to a report from American Express and Dun...
Aug 21 2017 // Add today’s total eclipse of the sun to the list of worker distractions that cost U.S. companies hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity.American employers will see at least $694 million in missing...
Aug 21 2017 // Not all small businesses are the same when it comes to customer satisfaction with commercial insurance. There are widening satisfaction gaps among small businesses of different sizes, according to the J.D. Power 2017 U.S....
Aug 17 2017 // The insurance community has at least two reasons to be interested in a new report on middle market companies, particularly those who are doing business in California.According to a report released this week from American...
Aug 17 2017 // The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile.So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles. Among the...
Aug 11 2017 // State officials has cited and fined a California ski resort for violating two workplace safety codes following an investigation into a ski patroller’s death.KRNV-TV reported 42-year-old Squaw Valley Ski Resort...