All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2013 // Wells Fargo & Co. promoted Laurie Nordquist to head of the unit providing insurance to individuals and small businesses, replacing Anne Doss, the executive who died in August at age 56.Nordquist, 54, will lead a team...
Dec 4 2013 // Workplace fatalities in North Dakota last year totaled 64, up 20 over the year. In South Dakota, workplace fatalities last year totaled 31, unchanged from the previous year.The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says...
Dec 4 2013 // The rate of injuries or illnesses at work has dropped in North Carolina.The North Carolina Department of Labor reported that fatalities dropped from 53 in 2011 to 35 in 2012. The rate of injuries or sickness dropped last...
Dec 3 2013 // The Woodlands, Texas-based TWFG has acquired Ward Business Insurance, located in the Kingwood/Humble, Texas area.TWFG’s proprietary agency systems will be installed into Ward Business and the company will merge into...
Dec 1 2013 // Small businesses won’t be able to use the federal government’s health insurance website until November 2014 in most U.S. states, the latest delay for the Obama administration’s health-care system...
Nov 25 2013 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Georg Fischer Central Plastics LLC and Nationwide Plastics Inc. for 16 safety and health violations at the plastic manufacturing...
Nov 21 2013 // An uninsured employer in Illinois has pled guilty to a Class 4 felony for refusing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission announced.John Linek, individually and...
Nov 20 2013 // Kristin Taylor Geisler has joined St. Paul, Minn.-based Safenet Commercial Insurance Agency as a senior vice president. Geisler has many years of experience in different fields including financial services, insurance and...
Nov 19 2013 // The Texas incidence rate of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in private industry was 2.7 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers in 2012, below the national rate of 3.4, the Texas Department of Insurance – Division...
Nov 14 2013 // It may still be considered the leanest state and among the nation’s healthiest, but Colorado employers are seeing a large increase in the cost of medical benefits in the coming year, a survey released on Thursday...
Nov 14 2013 // Capital Insurance Group (CIG), a regional property and casualty insurer serving the Western U.S., has released a comprehensive employment practices liability Insurance (EPLI) product for organizations with up to 250...
Nov 14 2013 // Wholesale insurance and reinsurance broker Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has appointed Carlos Reis as commercial director of CGSC Holdings Brasil. Based in Brazil and reporting to Fabio Basilone, CEO of CGSC...
Nov 13 2013 // San Diego, CA, 11/13/13 – Atlas General Insurance Services is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a winner in the small business category in the First Annual U-T San Diego Top Workplaces Awards. Atlas has...
Nov 8 2013 // Madison, Wis.-based American Family Insurance is partnering with Seattle-based start-up, AssureStart, to sell small business insurance online to Texas businesses beginning in mid-November.After launching in Texas,...
Nov 7 2013 // Most employers would be banned from firing, demoting or refusing to hire workers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity under legislation in line for action today in the U.S. Senate.The measure, known as...
Nov 1 2013 // Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance and the insurer of last resort adopted a new name and a new corporate structure in October. The 99-year-old Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund...
Oct 29 2013 // ProWriters is now providing agents and brokers access to online quoting and binding for small business professional liability insurance with general liability and/or a business owners policy (BOP).Quotes for small business...
Oct 28 2013 // The London-based Hyperion Insurance Group, an international insurance intermediary, announced its intention to expand its underwriting agency business in the U.S. through the acquisition, by its subsidiary DUAL, also based...
Oct 25 2013 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation board of directors has approved an average rate reduction of 1.6 percent for public employer taxing districts.The BWC said the change will result in Ohio’s 3,900 cities,...
Oct 24 2013 // After Hurricane Katrina, several forensic engineering firms popped up in the New Orleans area to serve an insurance industry overwhelmed with thousands of damage claims. Since the storm, the companies that remain in New...