All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 27 2011 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers has promoted Dennis Dix to vice president of customer support. Since joining Employers in 2007, Dix’s successful background in process excellence and operations management has enabled him...
Apr 27 2011 // Peerless Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 40 business classes to its Commercial Protector BOP product.The majority of the...
Apr 26 2011 // The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has extended discounted workers’ compensation coverage benefits to its members in Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri through EMPLOYERS. EMPLOYERS...
Apr 26 2011 // Most commercial lines insurance prices continued their downward trend in the first quarter, as underwriters’ efforts to hold the line on premiums buckled under the pressure of a highly overcapitalized market.Three of...
Apr 25 2011 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has signed legislation increasing the state income tax deduction that small businesses get for supplying health insurance for their employees.The new law applies to the current tax year. Bentley...
Apr 25 2011 // Accountants at the U.S. securities regulator are recommending that medium-size public companies should not be exempted from a key auditing provision in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, saying the benefits to investors outweigh...
Apr 25 2011 // Oregon recorded four compensable workplace fatalities in the first quarter of 2011, compared to seven compensable workplace fatalities for the same period in 2010. According to the Department of Consumer and Business...
Apr 22 2011 // San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC, a large insurance brokerage, has added Dennis Borsenberger to the Commercial Division. Borsenberger will serve as a client executive in company’s San Diego office. With a...
Apr 22 2011 // The Missouri Legislative Black Caucus is urging Gov. Jay Nixon to veto a workplace discrimination bill that recently gained legislative approval.In a letter to Nixon, the caucus said Senate Bill 188 would reverse important...
Apr 22 2011 // London-based United Insurance Brokers and Space Partnership International have recently placed insurance for commercial payloads flying on the penultimate STS Shuttle mission (STS134), currently scheduled for the 29th...
Apr 21 2011 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc., whose subsidiaries are specialty providers of workers’ compensation insurance focused on small businesses, announced it will review the company’s first quarter 2011...
Apr 21 2011 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer has announced a grant program to reduce or eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses in the wholesale/retail trade sector.As part of...
Apr 20 2011 // America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 60 business classes to its Commercial Protector BOP product. The majority...
Apr 18 2011 // Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 60 business classes to its Commercial Protector BOP product.The majority of...
Apr 18 2011 // Restaurants have specials, while stores, catalogs, and online marketers offer featured products. These time-tested retail sales methods are effective for selling to consumers. So, why can’t agencies use a similar...
Apr 13 2011 // Hawaii’s workplace safety regulator has launched an investigation into the company responsible for the fireworks that exploded in a storage facility last week to determine if it has any record of violating safety...
Apr 11 2011 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG has introduced Allied World U.S.’s new privacy and network security insurance product, Privacy//101. Designed for small to mid‐size companies, law firms, healthcare and...
Apr 6 2011 // Commercial insurers moderated their rate reductions in March, and coastal property accounts actually saw increases, the latest insurance pricing survey shows.According to the report from online exchange MarketScout, the...
Apr 5 2011 // As of April 1st members of Broker Network (BN) will be able to trade with commercial insurer MMA Insurance plc via BN’s Network Trading Room.MMA plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of French multi-national insurer, MMA...
Apr 5 2011 // Starr Aviation Agency, Inc., a member of Starr Cos., has developed a Small Business Unit within their Workers’ Compensation division. The focus of the Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit is to provide an...