All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2013 // Commercial lines property/casualty insurance rates rose 4 percent on average in February 2013 compared February 2012, a recent survey revealed.The U.S. commercial insurance rate index, published by MarketScout, shows...
Mar 5 2013 // The U.S. Department of Labor says the number of workplace injuries in Connecticut jumped 11 percent in 2011 over the previous year and that the rate of injury is among the highest in the country. The Bureau of Labor...
Mar 4 2013 // Margaret Fiester is no shrinking violet, but she says working for her former boss was a nightmare.“One day I didn’t do something right and she actually laid her hands on me and got up in my face and started...
Feb 28 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...
Feb 26 2013 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, has expanded its commercial auto capabilities. TUMI has established a relationship with an “A” rated carrier that underwrites...
Feb 26 2013 // R&R Insurance Services Inc. in Waukesha, Wis., has added Dan Scheider as commercial account executive.Scheider comes to R&R with more than five years of insurance experience. He began his career with National...
Feb 25 2013 // The majority of employers seek to avoid cost increases for their group health plans. However, more than half have not put pen to paper to calculate the cost of healthcare reform, according to a survey by the Willis Human...
Feb 22 2013 // UK-based Tempo Underwriting announced that it has started underwriting Commercial D&O through a binding authority arrangement with W. R. Berkley Insurance (Europe), Limited, the European affiliate of W.R....
Feb 14 2013 // Almost 163,000 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported among New York private industry employers in 2011, according to data published today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.That number translates to...
Feb 14 2013 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer has approved a plan to shift 31,000 commercial wind-only policies to a new private insurer.The board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. approved the plan earlier this week....
Feb 12 2013 // An Indiana company has won temporary court relief from having to provide its employees with coverage for contraceptives and other birth-control procedures, as mandated under the 2010 healthcare overhaul. By a 2-1 vote, a...
Feb 11 2013 // The commercial auto segment saw an underwriting loss in 2011 for the first time in nine years, with a combined ratio of 103.6 percent, according to a special report on the U.S. commercial auto insurance industry published...
Feb 11 2013 // Rates for commercial lines insurance will continue to rise in 2013, thanks to above average losses, low investment returns and receding reserve releases. However, according to a report by Marsh, traditional signs of a...
Feb 5 2013 // Insurance brokers across the country reported price increases in the commercial lines market in the fourth quarter of 2012.According to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ quarterly Commercial P/C Market...
Feb 4 2013 // Attorneys for employers who won a ruling against the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation are asking the state to pay $860 million.The lawyers say there are 270,000 Ohio employers who are due restitution after a...
Jan 31 2013 // Two Kansas lawmakers are seeking support for a measure that would limit employers’ access to job applicants’ social media accounts.Rep. Gail Finney and Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, both Democrats, back measures...
Jan 30 2013 // Rates for commercial lines insurance will continue to rise in 2013 thanks to above average losses, low investment returns and receding reserve releases.However, according to a new report published by Marsh, traditional...
Jan 29 2013 // Reno, Nev.-based EMPLOYERS named Dwight L. Robertson, M.D., medical director. Dr. Robertson will provide physician oversight for the clinical direction of medical services for EMPLOYERS, as well as medical expertise with...
Jan 29 2013 // Only 47 percent of small businesses (2-99 employees) in the United States offer benefits to their employees, the lowest level in two decades of research by the life insurance industry research organization LIMRA.According...
Jan 22 2013 // Small businesses may not think they are at risk for cybercrime, but almost 72 percent of the 855 data breaches worldwide analyzed by Verizon’s forensic analysis unit were at companies with 100 employees or less*....