All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 10 2013 // Liberty Mutual Insurance announced the promotion of Glenn Shapiro to the role of executive vice president and chief claims officer for its commercial insurance.Glenn ShapiroShapiro succeeds George Neale, who recently...
Apr 9 2013 // A reworking of a key piece of the workers’ compensation rating formula isn’t changing rates overall but is changing premiums for most insureds, according to experts.Tony DiDonato, director and senior actuary at...
Apr 8 2013 // BOLT Solutions, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Aon Affinity, the consumer, association and group program business of Aon plc to provide the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) with a new online...
Apr 5 2013 // Commercial insurance rates were up about five percent in March, according to the latest barometer from MarketScout and the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research.Manufacturing continues to post the largest...
Apr 5 2013 // An Iowa Senate panel approved a bill that would give a new income tax break to small businesses if they cover part of their employees’ health insurance.The measure passed a Senate Ways and Means subcommittee with...
Apr 4 2013 // Gowrie Group, an independent insurance agency based in Westbrook, Conn., appointed Kristen Lincoln as an account executive within the firm’s commercial insurance department.Gowrie Group said Lincoln brings to the...
Mar 25 2013 // “Online aggregators have revolutionized the distribution of personal lines insurance in the UK,” concludes a study from Finaccord, a market research, publishing and consulting company specializing in financial...
Mar 25 2013 // A Florida district court judge’s ruling that declared unconstitutional a 104-week limitation on injured workers’ temporary benefits left insurers and employers scrambling to come up with a legislative...
Mar 22 2013 // An Arkansas House committee has advanced a proposal to establish a new economic development program in the state aimed at driving private investment to small businesses.The House Economic Development Committee unanimously...
Mar 22 2013 // Ohio employers are collectively owed $860 million after being overcharged for nearly a decade by the state insurance fund for injured workers, a Cleveland judge has ruled.Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Richard...
Mar 21 2013 // Arkansas lawmakers are considering a proposal to create a new tax credit to spur private investment of small businesses.A bipartisan proposal that would allow the Arkansas Economic Commission to issue tax credits in order...
Mar 21 2013 // ACE Commercial Risk Services, the U.S.-based small business insurance division of the ACE Group, has introduced a portal for U.S. brokers working with small- to-mid-sized U.S.-based companies doing business overseas. The...
Mar 19 2013 // Aon plc, a global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and HR consulting and outsourcing services, announced the addition of Vincent Gandolfo as middle-market sales leader for the Greater New...
Mar 11 2013 // Commercial insurance prices rose by almost seven percent in aggregate during the fourth quarter of 2012, marking the eighth consecutive quarter of price increases and the fourth showing increases across every line...
Mar 11 2013 // About one-third of America’s entrepreneurs are women, many are between the ages of 30 and 49, and 60 percent spent more than six months working on their business idea before forming their entity.More than four out of...
Mar 8 2013 // Your bosses want you to eat your broccoli, hit the treadmill and pledge you’ll never puff on a cigarette. But a new study raises doubts that workplace wellness programs save the company money.In what’s being...
Mar 7 2013 // Marsh has announced a new corporate division within its UK & Ireland business. Bringing together its National Corporate and Risk Management Practices across the region as well as Marsh Risk Consulting, the corporate...
Mar 7 2013 // Most large employers don’t expect to send their full-time employees to government health exchanges for insurance during the next five years, but some retirees and part-time workers will end up there, a new survey has...
Mar 6 2013 // Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Bangor, Maine-based Cross Financial Corp. and one of the largest independent insurance providers in New England, hired Michael Dufour as vice president of commercial lines at the...
Mar 6 2013 // While more than half the U.S. small businesses experienced at least one data breach, just one-third of those firms notified individuals that their personal information had been compromised, a new survey...