All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2007 // Employers Group has opened a new San Diego regional office. The new office, the third such office opening in the past three months, is in alignment with the association’s plan to add more offices throughout...
Sep 19 2007 // Like other driving instructors across Maine, Dwight Hawkins has a new lesson to add to his course this fall: If you’re under 18 and behind the wheel, lose the cell phone.As of Sept. 20, a new Maine law will prohibit...
Sep 19 2007 // Travelers announced the availability of the IndustryEdge product for mid-sized fine dining and upscale casual dining restaurants. The suite of coverages provided in the IndustryEdge product include property, general...
Sep 14 2007 // Insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. has agreed to purchase Banc of America Corporate Insurance Agency, L.L.C., a segment of Bank of America, N.A., and a middle market insurance intermediary in the northeastern...
Sep 13 2007 // America First Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced it is expanding its commercial lines offerings in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas to include commercial general contractors, restaurants and...
Sep 11 2007 // Owner and operator of West Virginia Concrete Coating and Design in Harrison County pleaded guilty to a felony county of failure to subscribe to the former Workers’ Compensation Commission. Business owner Susan Boram...
Sep 11 2007 // New Jersey insurance agents praised Gov. Jon Corzine for signing into law a bill that bans so-called step-down provisions in businesses’ motor vehicle liability insurance policies and frees agents from a having to...
Sep 7 2007 // Dallas-based insurance and risk management firm McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT) was recently selected as a recipient of the 2007 Greater Dallas Chamber Employer Excellence Award. According to the announcement,...
Sep 7 2007 // Zurich announced the expansion of its directors & officers liability insurance offering for middle market companies in North America. The enhanced offering, which includes several management liability products under...
Sep 6 2007 // Chicago-based Unitrin, Inc. has agreed to sell its Unitrin Business Insurance segment to AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. in a cash transaction.Terms were not disclosed; however, Unitrin indicated that the transaction is...
Sep 5 2007 // Investigators with California’s Economic and Employment Enforcement Coalition (EEEC) recently targeted businesses in the garment industry that were operating illegally. The businesses visited were in Los Angeles and...
Sep 3 2007 // The Department of Labor’s BLS National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2006 reported that 5,703 people died from on-the-job injuries in 2006 compared with 5,734 in 2005. The rate of fatal work injuries in...
Aug 31 2007 // Agency Specialty Product Network (ASPN) has announced it has formed an alliance with Midwest Employers Casualty Co. (MECC), based in Chesterfield, Mo., to offer large deductible workers’ compensation programs (single...
Aug 29 2007 // Brokers Financial Services Inc., a subsidiary of USG Insurance Services Inc., announced that Commercial Insurance Premium Financing is now available in Florida effective August 1, 2007. BFS financing is currently available...
Aug 27 2007 // Merchants Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that it has recently formed a subsidiary, Merchants Preferred Insurance Co. Merchants Preferred Insurance Co. is now accepting commercial lines business in Michigan,...
Aug 15 2007 // San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. announced that Charles R. Ball was appointed vice president and general manager of its Commercial Division’s Texas office.In this position, Ball will...
Aug 15 2007 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. has reported consolidated net income of $30.8 million for the second quarter of 2007, an increase of 43.9 percent from $21.4 million in the second quarter of 2006. Net income...
Aug 13 2007 // Seventy-eight people died from work-related injuries in Minnesota last year, a decrease of nine work-related deaths from the year before, the state Department of Labor and Industry announced on Thursday, Aug. 9th. The 2006...
Aug 10 2007 // An employer may use a payment to an injured worker under its group life and disability plan to offset its workers’ compensation benefit payment, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.The plaintiff had argued...
Aug 10 2007 // The Department of Labor’s BLS National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2006 released today show 5,703 people died from on-the-job injuries in 2006 compared with 5,734 in 2005. The rate of fatal work...