All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2011 // Risk and Insurance Management Society’s latest survey found average renewal premium rates rising in three out of the four business lines it tracked. This “strongly suggests” that an eight-year period of...
Dec 5 2011 // New York State Department of Financial Services issued new rules to implement a new state law that deregulates most insurance business for large, sophisticated companies and public entities.The law exempts insurers from...
Nov 23 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) awarded 13 businesses safety intervention grants totaling more than $273,000 during October to make Ohio workplaces safer, the agency announced.BWC designed the Safety...
Nov 21 2011 // New York State Department of Financial Services announced on Monday that it issued new regulations to implement a recently adopted state law that deregulates most insurance business for large, sophisticated companies.The...
Nov 21 2011 // Since the beginning of the year, Texas public safety officers have removed more than 66,000 unsafe commercial vehicles and more than 12,000 unsafe commercial drivers from the state’s roadways, the Department of...
Nov 21 2011 // American International Group said recently its U.S. commercial line rates are increasing at an accelerated pace. A number of other major insurers have offered similar observations in the latest earnings season. “In...
Nov 21 2011 // Small business owners trust their independent insurance agents and commercial insurance carriers more than other financial services businesses, a new study reports. The study, commissioned by The Hanover Insurance Group...
Nov 18 2011 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund on Friday named Len Welsh head of workplace safety.Welsh is charged with directing State Fund’s strategies to advance occupational safety and health in...
Nov 18 2011 // Female workers are six times more likely than male workers to experience sexual harassment on the job, according to a report out of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.Vanderbilt University economist Joni Hersch has...
Nov 16 2011 // Risk and Insurance Management Society’s latest survey found average renewal premium rates rising in three out of the four business lines it tracked.This “strongly suggests” that an eight-year period of...
Nov 16 2011 // Texas-based managing general agency, Van Wagoner Companies, plans to begin selling “monoline” commercial earthquake insurance as a surplus line in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.Van...
Nov 14 2011 // Small business owners trust their independent insurance agents and commercial insurance carriers more than other financial services businesses, a new study reports.The study, commissioned by The Hanover Insurance Group...
Nov 14 2011 // An assessment rate of direct earned premium is necessary for the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services to carry out its statutory responsibility to regulate, administer, and enforce the workers’...
Nov 14 2011 // Matthew J. Nielsen has joined the Founders Insurance Co. of Des Plaines, Ill., as commercial claims manager.Nielsen’s responsibilities include supervising a unit of claims analysts, providing guidance and direction...
Nov 14 2011 // The board of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has given final approval to a 22.1 percent rate increase for its 5,734 commercial policyholders, a move that could mean an increase of about $700 in the average...
Nov 14 2011 // The percentage of Americans who have health insurance through their employer slipped to a new low of 44.5 percent in the third quarter, a drop of over 5 percentage points in three years, according to a poll released...
Nov 4 2011 // American International Group said its U.S. commercial line rates are increasing at an accelerated pace. A number of other major insurers have been offering similar observations in this earnings season.“In U.S....
Oct 28 2011 // Between 2005 and 2010, more than 350 million personal records were exposed in reported data breaches alone. Those numbers include data, privacy and security breaches by cyber-criminals accessing sensitive company and...
Oct 28 2011 // Ohio’s 3,900 public employer taxing districts will pay an estimated $22 million less for workers’ compensation coverage next year following tadecision by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC)...
Oct 27 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) reported that 10 Ohio businesses received more than $217,000 in safety intervention grants in September to improve workplace safety.The Safety Intervention Grant program...