All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 31 2014 // Stonetrust Commercial Mutual Insurance Holding Co. announced it has agreed to be acquired by Dhandho Holdings LP and Dhandho Holdings Qualified Purchaser LP, based in Irvine, Calif.Stonetrust is a Louisiana-based mutual...
Jul 31 2014 // The UK’s RSA announced new appointments within its Commercial business as follows:Rob Gibbs has been appointed RSA Motability Director. In his new role, he will lead a team of over 500 to deliver exceptional service...
Jul 29 2014 // U.S. workplaces may need to consider innovative methods to prevent fatigue from developing in employees who are obese. Based on results from a study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene...
Jul 23 2014 // Dallas, TX – July 23, 2014 – U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the eighth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that it has named Jonathan Hagan an...
Jul 16 2014 // Dallas-based CPro Associates has spun off its binding authority and programs unit as a new company, B&H Risk Services Inc., headed by William E. Buckley.Buckley joined CPro in late 2013 to form and develop the new...
Jul 10 2014 // Cook Maran & Associates recently promoted Dan Edgett from commercial marketing representative to the newly created position of assistant manager in the commercial insurance department. Edgett will assume his new...
Jul 8 2014 // Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that Mark Maritzen has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Property within its U.S. Insurance operation.He has nearly twenty years...
Jul 8 2014 // Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that Mark Maritzen has joined the company as executive vice president and head of commercial property within its U.S. Insurance operation.Maritzen will be responsible for...
Jul 7 2014 // ACE Limited announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the large corporate property and casualty (P&C) business of Itaú Seguros, S.A. from Itaú Unibanco S.A. for approximately $685 million.ACE...
Jul 7 2014 // The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the emerging regulatory environment present difficult challenges to employers.As employers, regulators, administrators and courts begin to struggle with...
Jul 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court will use a case involving United Parcel Service Inc. to decide whether pregnant employees can be denied accommodations such as light duty when other workers with disabilities receive them.The court...
Jun 30 2014 // Starting July 1, Kansas is granting a yearlong exemption to small commercial trucks from most of the safety regulations it imposes upon larger haulers, despite the misgivings of some officials.The Topeka Capital Journal...
Jun 27 2014 // If the battle over the U.S. Export-Import Bank is Washington’s latest political tempest, then Don Nelson from Bakersfield, California is aiming at the eye of the storm.Nelson’s small oilfield equipment company...
Jun 26 2014 // “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change to the United States,” a report on climate change and how it will affect businesses, offers a variety of information on how a changing world will impact...
Jun 26 2014 // Philadelphia Insurance Cos. (PHLY) is now offering commercial excess flood coverage to complement its commercial primary flood product. PHLY’s new excess coverage competitively priced and available at limits higher...
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...