All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 1 2006 // West Virginia employers who haven’t made a premium payment for the second half of 2006 to insurer BrickStreet have one last opportunity to retain workers’ compensation coverage.BrickStreet mailed more than...
Aug 1 2006 // Florida officials authorized a reactivation of a reinsurance pool for commercial lines insurance to help businesses obtain insurance.The Commercial Joint Underwriting Association (JUA is intended to provide property...
Aug 1 2006 // Neenah, Wis.-based Jewelers Mutual Insurance announced a free identity theft service for commercial policyholders in the United States and Canada who are owners, officers, or principals of their jewelry businesses. The...
Aug 1 2006 // West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance provider has a lofty goal: to audit every one of West Virginia’s 38,000 employers this year.That would require an unprecedented 200 audits a day, and may be...
Jul 30 2006 // Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is considering a state-run reinsurance pool or joint underwriting pool to help businesses that can’t get policies from private insurers, saying that if companies can’t get coverage, it...
Jul 27 2006 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Insurance Group announced it is expanding its market for workers’ compensation insurance and services to small businesses throughout the states of Texas and Arizona. Insurance is being...
Jul 26 2006 // Employers’ costs for workers’ compensation grew faster than combined cash benefits for injured workers and medical payments for their treatment, according to a new study issued today by the National Academy of...
Jul 25 2006 // West Virginia has delinquent workers’ compensation payments valued at $11.4 million outstanding as of July 13, with 5,450 employers overdue on their payments to BrickStreet Mutual, according to Insurance Commissioner...
Jul 25 2006 // A new online marine general liability and maritime employers liability rating program has been announced by LIG Marine Managers in St. Petersburg, Fla. The “Thunderstorm” program is designed to provide 24/7...
Jul 24 2006 // Some producers never seek out fresh prospects. Instead, their managers employ list services and telemarketers to spoon-feed them their leads. Still, this is the exception in the agency business and not the rule.Most...
Jul 24 2006 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission is cracking down on an estimated 2,000 employers in the state who do not have workers’ compensation insurance, which is required by law.When an employee of an uninsured employer...
Jul 24 2006 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission is cracking down on an estimated 2,000 employers in the state who do not have workers’ compensation insurance, which is required by law.When an employee of an uninsured employer...
Jul 24 2006 // Some producers never seek out fresh prospects. Instead, their managers employ list services and telemarketers to spoon-feed them their leads. Still, this is the exception in the agency business and not the rule.Most...
Jul 18 2006 // Peerless Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced the appointment of Linda O’Donnell to vice president of underwriting for commercial lines. In this new capacity, O’Donnell will lead and oversee...
Jul 17 2006 // Gov. Matt Blunt recently signed legislation aimed at increasing access to affordable health insurance for employees of small businesses.The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jay Wasson, R-Nixa, expands eligibility for association...
Jul 14 2006 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich, one of the nation’s largest commercial property-casualty insurance companies, has announced that it is expanding the number of subclasses of businesses its small business division will...
Jul 12 2006 // The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers praised Congress for addressing insurance market reform and said there is still time this session to enact some easy, achievable changes that could have a major impact on the...
Jul 6 2006 // Massachusetts officials have unveiled proposed regulations that would set the minimum a company would have to do to be exempt from a new $295 per-worker assessment as part of the state’s new health care law.Health...
Jul 6 2006 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission is cracking down on the estimated 2,000 employers in the state that do not have workers’ compensation insurance, which is required by law.When an employee of an uninsured...
Jul 6 2006 // Commercial and industrial operations, ownership interests, and companies with multi-state locations have a new option from OneBeacon Insurance for safeguarding themselves against loss.With Flex, its new property product,...