All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 28 2012 // The vast majority of commercial insurance buyers renewing their policies appear willing to accept coverage adjustments, moderate price increases, or both, according to a new survey.Still, the survey of risk managers and...
Dec 27 2012 // In a decision that could make it easier for businesses to police cybertheft in the workplace, a U.S. appeals court revived a chemical company’s lawsuit accusing a former Toronto-area employee of using her home...
Dec 26 2012 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is offering safety training to companies in the state’s booming oil patch, an effort to decrease job-related deaths and injuries happening most often to...
Dec 26 2012 // Federal safety regulators have proposed $75,600 in penalties for a Montana manufacturing company over alleged workplace hazards.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Fiberglass Structures, Inc. of Laurel...
Dec 19 2012 // NIP Programs — a division of Woodbridge, N.J.-based NIP Group Inc. that designs and manages specialty business insurance programs — introduced a business insurance program targeting owners and operators of...
Dec 18 2012 // Beginning January 2013, Foremost will introduce business insurance into its portfolio of products. Foremost is a part of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies. Zurich North America is ending the Zurich Small Business...
Dec 14 2012 // Business Risk Partners (BRP), a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, appointed Jayne Downey as a senior underwriter overseeing the firm’s technology errors-and-omissions (E&O) and data...
Dec 12 2012 // Hiscox has partnered with Rocket Lawyer, an online legal service, to provide small businesses with both insurance and legal advice. In addition to Hiscox’s insurance policies for small businesses, Hiscox customers...
Dec 12 2012 // The Main Street America Group has announced it will start offering commercial line products in Mississippi through 50 independent agents that represent the insurer’s affiliate, Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. The...
Dec 10 2012 // Commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by six percent during the third quarter of 2012, the seventh consecutive quarter that aggregate prices for all commercial lines rose.The latest Commercial Lines Insurance...
Dec 10 2012 // The Alabama Supreme Court has changed a 57-year-old standard on how commercial vehicle owners get compensated when their vehicle is totaled in an accident. The court held in 1955 that an owner who recovered damages for the...
Dec 7 2012 // Texas state Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, of Kerrville, has filed legislation to promote small business development in Texas by permanently extending a tax exemption for companies that earn less than $1 million a year.In 2009,...
Dec 6 2012 // The overall composite rate for insuring commercial accounts in the United States ticked up 5 percent in November 2012 compared to the same month in 2011.According to MarketScout’s Commercial Lines Market Barometer,...
Dec 6 2012 // Rose Wang looks at her staff of 70 employees and wonders if she’ll have to lay off some of them to comply with the health care law.The owner of Binary Group Inc., an information technology firm based in Alexandria,...
Dec 3 2012 // Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles to look at California’s workers’ compensation reform law in detail and what must be done to implement that law by Jan. 1, 2013.Looking forward...
Nov 30 2012 // California-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers recently hired Jason C. Cavallo to join its New York office as director of commercial lines and marketing, focusing on new business development and management of commercial...
Nov 27 2012 // Business owners in Georgia can now purchase commercial auto insurance directly from GEICO. By purchasing commercial coverage directly through the company, business owners can see significantly lower premium rates....
Nov 27 2012 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a new online tool that makes it easier for employers to navigate and manage the details of their workers’ compensation insurance policy.My Policy Page at...
Nov 20 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. with three safety violations for failing to protect workers from unexpected start-up of machines at...
Nov 19 2012 // A teen injured in a car wreck is entitled to underinsured motorist coverage (UIM) under her father’s business auto policy even though the vehicle she was riding in was not a listed vehicle on the policy, according to...