All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2009 // Citing the strain of escalating medical costs on the workers’ compensation system, increasingly intense price competition, and the uncertainty over the sustainability of the 2003-2004 legislative reforms due to...
Jul 17 2009 // Fairfield, Ohio-based Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has introduced Onboard Advisor, a fleet management system that helps companies increase commercial fleet safety and productivity, save...
Jul 14 2009 // U.S. small businesses, already facing the toughest credit conditions since the 1980s, may soon find things are about to get tougher.Concerns over the future of CIT Corp. — a major lender to small businesses —...
Jul 10 2009 // A plan to increase maximum monetary penalties for businesses that break North Carolina’s child labor and some workplace safety laws is one vote away from final passage.The Senate voted unanimously this week to double...
Jul 6 2009 // Eight months after North Dakota voters gave Gov. John Hoeven the final word on state workers’ compensation rates, employers’ insurance bills are likely to rise due to the recent bleak market for...
Jul 2 2009 // Members of the Workers’ Compensation Action Network (WCAN) have launched a campaign to oppose more than $60 million in new annual workers’ compensation assessments being proposed in California. The new...
Jul 1 2009 // Citing the strain of escalating medical costs on the workers’ compensation system, increasingly intense price competition, and the uncertainty over the sustainability of the 2003-2004 legislative reforms due to...
Jul 1 2009 // C.V. Starr & Co. is broadening its product mix with PrimeSTARR, a product for small to medium- sized commercial trade and general contractors. PrimeSTARR is being offered through Starr Indemnity. It boasts primary...
Jun 30 2009 // Denver-based workers’ compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance has been recognized as one of the top 50 best companies to work for in America by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Great Place to...
Jun 25 2009 // Capitol Insurance Companies (Capitol) based in Middleton, Wis., has launched a commercial automobile insurance product.The company said the product is available for appointed insurance agents and brokers through a newly...
Jun 24 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” to CastlePoint Florida Insurance Co. (CFIC) of Fort Lauderdale. The rating firm said the outlook...
Jun 23 2009 // Eight months after North Dakota voters gave Gov. John Hoeven the final word on state workers’ compensation rates, employers’ insurance bills are likely to rise as a consequence of the recent bleak market for...
Jun 23 2009 // The Supreme Court of Texas has ruled that employers generally do not owe a duty to third parties for the activities of off duty employees that occur away from the work site, even if those activities ultimately lead to a...
Jun 22 2009 // Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation designed to make health insurance coverage for workers laid off from small businesses more affordable. Under federal legislation, people who formerly worked at firms of 20 employees or...
Jun 19 2009 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. announced Standard & Poor’s will add it to the S&P 600 SmallCap Index. The S&P 600 is considered the preferred small capitalization-market index in the United...
Jun 19 2009 // Despite the economic turmoil and the second worst year for insured natural catastrophe losses, the total cost of risk paid by businesses dropped in 2008 by 9.4 percent per $1,000 of revenue.The drop was largely...
Jun 17 2009 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a double dismissal of a workers’ compensation appeal does not entitle an employer to a refund of compensation benefits from the state.Specifically, according to the Ohio high...
Jun 16 2009 // Morristown, New Jersey-based program manager PGI Commercial today has added a railroad protective program with coverage provided by underwriters at Lloyd’s, London.PGI was appointed by the Ark Syndicate, which leads...
Jun 5 2009 // For the first time, an Illinois business has been closed down for failure to obtain workers¹ compensation insurance. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and the City of Evanston shut down All Good Dogs Pet...
May 28 2009 // San Diego-based Cavignac & Associates, a risk management and commercial insurance brokerage firm, has hired Barbara M. Cohn as a senior commercial account manager within its construction department. Cohn is a 27-year...