All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 25 2014 // Oliver TraviesoCNA Financial Corporation has promoted Oliver Travieso to the position of small business sales manager for the Southeast zone. In this role, Travieso will have primary responsibility for managing the...
Jun 25 2014 // A Hong Kong legislator backing a bill to help protect flight attendants from sexual harassment by passengers will seek to add language making employers liable for enforcing it.“Without that liability, the law will be...
Jun 23 2014 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, has appointed Erinn Coletti as professional liability underwriter. Previously, Coletti served as a specialty underwriter at The Hanover Insurance...
Jun 20 2014 // AssureStart, the technology startup that sells small business insurance coverage on the internet, has opened for business in Colorado, Missouri and Oregon with plans to expand into additional states this year. AssureStart...
Jun 20 2014 // ANV Holdings BV, a Dutch specialty insurance business, has opened a U.S. managing general underwriter focused on communications and data security risks for “Main Street” U.S. businesses.Leib Dodell, a veteran...
Jun 18 2014 // The American International Group, Inc. (AIG) insurers have launched a new line of multinational commercial property products and services, including expanded coverage, loss prevention engineering, and risk management...
Jun 18 2014 // There’s no doubt that new advancements in the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are driving the current production boom in the oil patch. The technique, which is used to retrieve oil and gas reservoirs...
Jun 17 2014 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has appointed Walter Grote to the position of commercial insurance field executive.In this national role, Grote will lead Fireman’s Fund Commercial Insurance operations, including...
Jun 17 2014 // Bermuda-based Ironshore Canada has announced its entry into the Commercial Property Market with capacity that enhances its existing suite of specialty products available in the Canadian region.“Ironshore Canada has...
Jun 16 2014 // The ProSight Specialty Insurance group of companies has introduced a production policy endorsement designed to safeguard independent television commercial producers from potential losses not covered by a client’s...
Jun 16 2014 // Amazon.com Inc.’s labor issues are growing at its sprawling network of fulfillment centers, where it ships everything from books to big-screen televisions.The U.S. Department of Labor said last week that it’s...
Jun 12 2014 // American International Group Inc., the largest property/casualty insurer in the U.S. and Canada, joined private-equity firm Oak Hill Capital Management to help start a lender serving medium-sized companies.AIG has...
Jun 11 2014 // Argo Surety, together with SureTec Financial Corp., is now providing expanded combined capacity for the middle market contract surety segment. Through the new program, Argo Surety and SureTec can extend up to $50 million...
Jun 10 2014 // Commercial insurance prices increased by 4 percent in aggregate during the first quarter of 2014, marking the lowest level of growth since fourth-quarter 2011, according to a new survey by Towers Watson. The increase is a...
Jun 10 2014 // Willis Group Holdings announced that in “response to growing demand from property investors for insurance cover that is compliant with Islamic law it has launched the UK’s first Shariah compliant commercial...
Jun 5 2014 // CNA Financial Corporation promoted Matt Szabo to assistant vice president, commercial underwriting officer for the Chicago, Illinois and Wisconsin branches. Szabo will work with leadership to provide additional strategic...
Jun 5 2014 // The Hartford has appointed Carl J. Carano vice president of loss control for the company’s Commercial Markets division. Carano will lead development of a risk management services for commercial insurance customers....
Jun 4 2014 // Lori FellerCNA Financial Corporation has appointed Lori Feller as middle market underwriting director for the company’s Philadelphia branch. Feller joined CNA in 2006. Most recently she served as middle market...
Jun 3 2014 // Great American Insurance Group’s Fidelity/Crime Division has launched commercial coverage for bitcoins, a virtual online peer-to-peer medium of exchange.Bitcoins are used as a method of exchange by which transactions...
Jun 2 2014 // Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. has launched a new insurance program for commercial residential properties in Florida. The new line will be written by Heritage’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Heritage Property &...