All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2007 // Stock Prices: Commercial line insurers’ stocks traded down 2 percent for the first quarter of 2007.The only company reporting significant stock gains for the first quarter was CNA Financial Corp. (NYSE:CNA) whose...
May 7 2007 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is expanding its insurance coverage for small businesses beyond coastal areas to properties across Florida.“Our goal is to make coverage available as quickly as possible to the...
May 7 2007 // Commercial property/casualty premiums for all sizes of accounts dropped sharply during the first quarter of 2007, with indications that insurance companies are starting to loosen underwriting standards and price...
May 7 2007 // Stock Prices: Commercial line insurers’ stocks traded down 2 percent for the first quarter of 2007.The only company reporting significant stock gains for the first quarter was CNA Financial Corp. (NYSE:CNA) whose...
May 4 2007 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced its 2006 figures for workplace safety. According to its data, 37 people covered by the state workers’ compensation system died on the job.The largest...
May 3 2007 // The Arizona Department of Insurance (ADOI) is offering the state’s small business owners insurance curriculum on its online “insurance university, Insure U for Small Business. Six categories of small business...
May 3 2007 // The Texas House of Representatives passed House Bill 3928, the franchise tax correction bill, by Rep. Jim Keffer (Eastland), which increases the tax emption for small business in House Bill 3 passed during last...
May 1 2007 // Alleghany Corp. has agreed to purchase all outstanding shares of California workers’ compensation writer Employers Direct Corp. for $195 million in cash.EDC, which was founded in 2002, is an insurance holding company...
Apr 27 2007 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s board of governors gave its approval Thursday of expanded commercial property insurance coverage for small businesses across Florida.“Our goal is to make coverage...
Apr 27 2007 // Many small business owners in New York and the Northeast are still trying to recover from floods caused by as much as eight inches of rain earlier this month.Those who had flood insurance can recoup some of their losses,...
Apr 27 2007 // Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and House Republican Whip Roy Blunt R-Mo., addressed 1,400 independent insurance agents and brokers at the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s National Legislative...
Apr 26 2007 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich, a national commercial property-casualty insurance company, recently announced the debut of eZ Transition, an online tool that bolsters the effectiveness of Zurich’s return to work (RTW)...
Apr 25 2007 // AIG WorldSource(R), a division of the property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. announced it is offering Accel Elite — employers’ liability coverage for U.S. companies...
Apr 25 2007 // Only 2,000 workers have signed up for a state program that helps small companies provide health insurance to their employees.Nearly $70 million sits in a special fund for the program, but employers say the plan is so...
Apr 25 2007 // Travelers Commercial Accounts introduced a suite of coverages designed for mid-sized commercial printers who typically generate more than $15 million in sales. The new product is the latest addition to IndustryEdge,...
Apr 25 2007 // E.L.M. Insurance Brokers based in El Segundo, Calif., has formed a new commercial package division to be managed by Clancy Johannsen.Johannsen has been with the company for the past six years, five of which have been as a...
Apr 24 2007 // The Texas House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has approved a provision that would help Texas’ small businesses by increasing the small business exemption under the franchise tax – an initiative...
Apr 19 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurance is costing less for most Vermont employers since new rates became effective April 1.The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration approved...
Apr 17 2007 // Europ Assistance, which has considerably expanded from its French origins into international operations, has launched a new Commercial Property Assistance (CPA) product, “which,” it said, “will be made...
Apr 16 2007 // More Garden State employers dropped health insurance coverage for workers last year amid skyrocketing costs that were nearly double what they were five years before, according to a major business association’s survey...