All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 10 2015 // Federal safety officials have proposed penalties totaling $162,400 against an Ohio-based steel manufacturer for exposing workers to workplace hazards.While Republic Steel has made a significant investment in personnel,...
Aug 10 2015 // ACE has launched ACE Risk Manager, a website designed for its employers’ liability (EL) clients in the UK and Ireland.Advice on the site is designed to help companies improve the management of health and safety risks...
Aug 7 2015 // “Physically it was like getting a vaccination; a pain in the hand that was over very quickly,” explains Hannes Sjoblad, describing the moment a piercing specialist implanted a microchip under his skin.The NFC...
Aug 6 2015 // Charles Dankmeyer Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, the largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance in Maryland, announced the appointment of Charles Dankmeyer as chairman of the Board after having...
Aug 5 2015 // Nearly 10 years ago, wind and storm surges as a result of Hurricane Katrina caused $41 billion in insured losses and $108 billion in total economic losses. Many of the lawsuits filed as a result of the fifth hurricane of...
Aug 4 2015 // Atlanta, Ga.-based Risk Innovations LLC has acquired Columbia Commercial General Agency (CCGA), headquartered in Columbia, Mo. The deal was effective Aug. 1, 2015. The acquired business will continue to operate in Columbia...
Jul 29 2015 // Workplace deaths in Oregon for the second quarter of 2015 were down markedly from the previous quarter, possibly resuming a long-turn trend of deaths on average falling steadily since the 1980s, according to the the state...
Jul 21 2015 // St. Louis-based Midwest Employers Casualty Co. (MECC), a W. R. Berkley Co., announced that David R. Anderson has joined MECC as underwriting director of the recently formed workers’ compensation captive...
Jul 20 2015 // Commercial insurance rates have barely budged at all over the last four months, according to the MarketScout report for June.Only the business interruption line saw rates go down in June from the previous month and those...
Jul 17 2015 // Federal safety officials have found that a Dallas-area steel fabricator has continued to put its workers in harm’s way, despite its awareness of hazards at its Farmers Branch facility. A recent federal inspection...
Jul 15 2015 // Trust is hard to come by, and the proof for that cliché is now in the pudding – at least in the world of workers’ compensation.While roughly one-in-10 small business owners say they’re concerned that one of...
Jul 13 2015 // Insurance Services Office (ISO) lists more than 100 endorsements available for use with the business auto policy (BAP) (the total number varies by state). Out of this mass of policy-altering endorsements, most designed to...
Jul 9 2015 // The Guarantee Company of North America announced that it has “teamed up with Bullfrog Insurance to provide a faster and simpler way for Canadian small business owners to obtain small business insurance.”They...
Jul 8 2015 // A North Dakota man was killed while working at an asphalt production plant in central South Dakota. Sully County Sherriff Bill Stahl told KCCR radio that 66-year-old Jerold Walth of Wishek, North Dakota, was performing...
Jul 7 2015 // First, the Reasons to NEVER Extend BAC Protection to an Individually-Owned AutoThe Background Section II (Liability Coverage) of the Business Auto Coverage (BAC) form describes who qualifies as an insured (II.A.1.)....
Jul 6 2015 // Commercial insurance rates have barely budged at all over the last four months, according to the MarketScout report for June.Only the business interruption line saw rates go down in June from the previous month and those...
Jun 30 2015 // Jamie Trish Liberty Mutual Insurance has promoted Jamie Trish to president of its Northeast Business Insurance operations effective July 1. Trish will be responsible for the profitable growth of business in the region that...
Jun 26 2015 // Forty-three percent of mid-sized businesses say they have experienced a data breach in the past three years and 13 percent have had a supplier’s data breach impact their business information.Also, according to The...
Jun 23 2015 // Midwest Employers Casualty Company (MECC), which specializes in excess workers’ compensation, has hired Dr. Fernando S. Branco as medical director. Branco will lead a team of six medical management consultants who...
Jun 22 2015 // American International Group Inc. announced that Annabelle Bexiga has been named business information officer (BIO) for Commercial Insurance.Effective in August 2015, Bexiga will report to Phil Fasano, chief information...