All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 8 2007 // Florida workers’ compensation compliance investigators conducted a recent sweep of 177 businesses in two Panhandle counties that resulted in 23 Stop Work Orders against employers found to be operating without the...
Aug 8 2007 // A Kanawha County Grand Jury indicted two West Virginia employers on multiple charges relating to failing to subscribe to the former Workers’ Compensation Commission.On the indictment of Susan Borman and Leonard Cox,...
Aug 8 2007 // The California Court of Appeals has ruled that claims of assault and battery and emotional distress are barred by the workers’ compensation exclusivity rule, meaning that workers’ compensation is the only...
Aug 7 2007 // Hawai’i State Insurance Commissioner J. P. Schmidt announced the launch of DTRIC Insurance Underwriters Ltd. (DIU), an “A-” Best Rated Co and subsidiary of local insurance provider DTRIC Insurance. The...