All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 31 2015 // The West Virginia Public Service Commission says 212 commercial vehicles were taken out of service as a result of recent inspections.Violations found by PSC transportation enforcement officers included faulty brakes,...
Aug 28 2015 // More companies may be held responsible for labor-law violations committed by contractors and forced to negotiate wages and benefits with their workers under a decision by a politically split U.S. labor board.The National...
Aug 24 2015 // CNA has appointed Julie Stephenson as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for CNA Commercial. In this role, Stephenson will be responsible for underwriting oversight and governance for all business written...
Aug 21 2015 // Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans 10 years ago, is responsible for a number of changes in the commercial property insurance market.According to Rick Miller, U.S. property practice leader at Aon Risk...
Aug 21 2015 // Tammy Johnson Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, the largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance in Maryland, promoted Tammy Johnson to director of the Strategic Business Unit. In this position,...
Aug 20 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS) announced several new products that expand its suite of specialty commercial products for small businesses.The products are available through ACE Solutions Fast Track, an online small...
Aug 18 2015 // For people working for a small business that doesn’t have a retirement plan, help is on the way.Roughly half of the U.S. states are working to create government-sponsored automatic individual retirement account (IRA)...
Aug 17 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has named Robert Bennetsen to lead its Alliant Americas division as executive vice President and senior managing director. Bennetsen will spearhead Alliant’s...
Aug 11 2015 // Independent insurance broker Higginbotham, based in Fort Worth, and Commercial Global Insurance (CGI) are merging their operations in Friendswood, Texas.CGI is an independent broker in Deer Park, Texas. CGI will merge its...
Aug 11 2015 // A new report from UK-based financial marketing and consulting firm Finaccord concludes that “affinity schemes for commercial lines insurance in the UK are on the rise as brokers and underwriters strive to grow market...
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 31 2015 // The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said during its inspection of 7,865 commercial motor vehicles in June it pulled approximately 21.7 percent, or 1,710, of the 18-wheelers, buses and other commercial vehicles...
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...