All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2015 // San Diego, CA, November 18, 2015 – Atlas General Insurance Services (atlas.us.com) announced today that it has been ranked as #16 in the small employer group category with the annual Best Places to Work in Insurance...
Nov 16 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately – an average of 3.1 percent – during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.The...
Nov 15 2015 // A federal review of Indiana’s workplace safety agency faulted it for having too few inspectors, slow responses to complaints and missing potentially deadly hazards.The U.S. Department of Labor’s annual...
Nov 13 2015 // Hudson Insurance Group (Hudson) has appointed Ronald Honken to a newly created position as senior vice president of all commercial auto business. He will be based in Hudson’s Indianapolis office.Honken will direct...
Nov 10 2015 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named Fred H. Danfoura to its commercial brokerage team. Danfoura joins CAL in to increase the firm’s presence in the educational, nonprofit and investment real estate...
Nov 10 2015 // Chicago-based Alper Services LLC has added Robert Moyer as an account manager in its Commercial Lines Division. With eight years of experience in the insurance industry, Moyer has worked on both the underwriting and...
Nov 5 2015 // Dual Commercial LLC, a specialty program administrator based in Naples, Florida, has hired John Broomfield as senior underwriter for the firm’s the Environmental Division. He is based in New York City. Broomfield has...
Nov 4 2015 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced the following promotions:Carmine D’Alessandro was promoted to vice president of Legal...
Nov 3 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS), the small commercial specialty lines business of ACE Group, has launched its small business ACE CRS Producer Portal. It provides client access through the new online portal, which...
Nov 3 2015 // DUAL Commercial LLC has named Melissa Schoning to its environmental team as a senior underwriter. Schoning will be working out of Lakewood, Colo. Schoning has more than 12 years of insurance experience in environmental...
Oct 30 2015 // The Texas incidence rate of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in private industry decreased to 2.4 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers in 2014, down from 2.6 in 2013, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Oct 30 2015 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent agency based in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, has hired Cathy Saporito as senior vice president, head of Personal Lines.Saporito joins World Insurance Associates from AIG, where...
Oct 29 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately — an average of 3.1 percent— during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.The CIAB...
Oct 28 2015 // Florida-Based Orchid Underwriters Insurance Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of property insurance focusing on coastal properties, has named Robert J. Rose senior vice president of Underwriting and Programs and Bryan...
Oct 26 2015 // A legislative panel has asked Arkansas’ insurance commissioner to expand the definition of small businesses so more companies can purchase coverage for their employees through a marketplace.But state Insurance...
Oct 21 2015 // K&K Insurance Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Aon plc, is now accepting property and casualty program business from producers.K&K has provided property and casualty program options for more than 60 years,...
Oct 19 2015 // Ask errors and omissions (E&O) carriers about their results when dealing with commercial lines shops and most, if not all, would comment that heavy commercial lines agencies definitely generate their share of E&O...
Oct 19 2015 // Commercial property insurance continues to be a buyer’s market with additional capacity still making its way into an already overcrowded space. In the current market it is important for the insureds to set goals...
Oct 19 2015 // It’s costly to sell new commercial lines accounts. In addition to the various prospecting and marketing costs, there is fact gathering/front line underwriting, pricing, proposal preparation and presentation – and...
Oct 16 2015 // American International Group (AIG) announced leadership appointments in its Commercial Insurance business, including a new chief underwriting officer and the newly-established roles of global head of Cyber, and presidents...