All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2006 // Approximately 14,000 employers have been notified that injury and illness rates at their worksites are higher than average and that assistance is available to help them fix safety and health hazards, the Occupational...
May 8 2006 // Stock Prices: Shares of commercial lines insurers were down 2 percent in the first quarter of 2006, with the exception of Ohio Casualty Corporation, whose stock traded up 12 percent. In February, Ohio Casualty announced...
May 8 2006 // Approximately 14,000 employers have been notified that injury and illness rates at their worksites are higher than average and that assistance is available to help them fix safety and health hazards, the Occupational...
May 1 2006 // The Progressive Group of Insurance Co.’s, the third largest auto insurance group in the country, is offering commercial auto insurance through Drive Insurance from Progressive local independent agents in North...
Apr 26 2006 // Patrion Insurance Services, Riverside, Calif., has named Mari Rezinas vice president of commercial lines. Rezinas has more than 35 years experience in the insurance industry, with an emphasis on commercial accounts. Prior...
Apr 26 2006 // Apollo Agencies Inc., a subsidiary of Kinecta Federal Credit Union based in Tustin, Calif., has named Yolanda Davis commercial lines manager. She will oversee client services and marketing as well as be responsible for...
Apr 25 2006 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has changed the name of the division responsible for workplace safety and health from WISHA to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health – or...
Apr 25 2006 // Approximately 14,000 employers have been notified that injury and illness rates at their worksites are higher than average and that assistance is available to help them fix safety and health hazards, the Occupational...
Apr 25 2006 // The commercial insurance marketplace cannot effectively price and underwrite terrorism coverage because there still is no effective modeling, so any long-term solution to the terrorism risk coverage must involve the...
Apr 20 2006 // Commercial property/casualty rates were flat or fell slightly during the first quarter of 2006, with renewal premiums for half of all account sizes holding steady or dropping between 1 percent to 10 percent in the first...
Apr 19 2006 // Dublin-based Research and Markets announced the addition of UK Commercial Liability Insurance 2006 to their offering. The research firm said the new report presents “an overview of three key UK liability markets:...
Apr 14 2006 // CIGNA HealthCare announced it is expanding the availability of its consumer-driven CIGNA Choice Fund Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) plans to businesses with 51-200 employees in Texas. The plan is also available in...
Apr 12 2006 // Up to 100,000 jobs would be lost in New York State and businesses stand to take a $9.2 billion dollar hit under a proposed healthcare mandate, according to research by University of Kentucky economist Dr. Aaron Yelowitz...
Apr 4 2006 // Independent agents representing Zurich Insurance in the U.S. will have to disclose their income before binding any commercial lines policies for Zurich and some Zurich agents may be denied contingency compensation under...
Apr 4 2006 // The Massachusetts House and Senate have passed a landmark plan designed to expand health insurance to most of the state’s estimated 500,000 uninsured citizens.The measure requires that all residents and most...
Apr 3 2006 // A recent survey conducted by California Small Business, San Francisco, found that most small businesses are still very concerned about workers’ compensation. In the survey, 83 percent of the respondents consider...
Apr 3 2006 // A recent survey conducted by California Small Business, San Francisco, found that most small businesses are still very concerned about workers’ compensation. In the survey, 83 percent of the respondents consider...
Mar 31 2006 // A San Bernardino, Calif., employer has been arrested for wrongly accusing an employee of workers compensation fraud, according to the California Department of Insurance. Matthew Day, 26, was arrested after surrendering...
Mar 31 2006 // Resolving conflict in the workplace will be the topic presented by Susan Granata, president of the Florida SunCoast Chapter of the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters during the group’s April 17 meeting in...
Mar 30 2006 // The Combined Group, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, announced the launch of a new online tool to help agents efficiently make binding offers for commercial automobile business.The Automatic Commercial Auto Application...