All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has issued 2005 assessment rates for User Funding, Anti-Fraud Programs, the Uninsured Employer Benefit Trust Fund and the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund. State...
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering a package of eight key coverages tailored to the needs of small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The...
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is offering a package of eight key coverages tailored small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The changes include a lower...
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering a package of eight key coverages tailored to the needs of small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The...
Dec 6 2004 // An exclusive Best’s-rated “A XIV” program for commercial risks, including and excluding wind, is now available in Florida from Hull & Company. The property program is designed for risks up to $5...
Nov 26 2004 // The employer of two workers killed in a July construction accident on a Hobe Sound work site has been arrested and charged with workers’ compensation fraud, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher...
Nov 26 2004 // Dublin’s Research and Markets has announced the addition of a guide to U.K. Commercial Insurance Distribution 2004 to their offering.“This report provides a comprehensive guide to the distribution of commercial...
Nov 24 2004 // Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher recently announced the appointment of Jon Ackerson of Louisville to the Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance Authority Board of Directors. Ackerson is currently an attorney with Ackerson...
Nov 18 2004 // Self-insurance pools interactively rated by A.M. Best Co. bear out the effectiveness of the stringent entrance requirements of members, focused loss-mitigation activities, and ownership interest in both the loss exposure...
Nov 16 2004 // Seattle-based Safeco announced it is again expanding the product breadth available on its single-platform online sales center Safeco Now™. In a breakthrough move for small-business insurance sales, the company has...
Nov 12 2004 // Marking the first formal congressional inquiry since allegations of abuse in the commercial insurance brokerage industry emerged last month, U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) will chair a Senate subcommittee oversight...
Nov 11 2004 // As temperatures fall, certain workplace injuries tend to rise. Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund is urging workers statewide to learn preventive tactics to remain safe on the job this fall and winter.Common...
Nov 9 2004 // An exclusive Best’s-rated “A XIV” program for commercial risks, including and excluding wind, is now available in Florida from Hull & Company. The property program is designed for risks up to $5...
Nov 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Seattle, Wash.-based Mattei Companies is offering a new market for commercial agribusiness. The program has now expanded into 30 states targeting operations after the product has left the fields,...
Nov 8 2004 // Every business insurance prospect yearns to be treated as an individual. No serious executive, regardless of their firm’s size, wants their company’s insurance problems to be solved by some prewritten,...
Nov 5 2004 // Chicago-based Hub International Limited has announced some major changes in the operations of its Quebec-based hub, Martin Assurance & Gestion de Risques Inc. (Martin). The company has signed a letter of intent to...
Nov 3 2004 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has revised the rating outlook to negative from stable on the “A” (Excellent) financial strength ratings for Employers Reinsurance Corporation of Overland Park, Kan. and GE...
Oct 28 2004 // The St. Paul Travelers Cos. Inc. (NYSE:STA) has reported net income of $340 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2004, or $0.51 per basic share and $0.50 per diluted share, compared to $426 million, or $0.98 per...
Oct 26 2004 // Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. announced that its Indiana-based Sagamore Insurance Company subsidiary will no longer market and underwrite workers’ compensation coverage for small businesses. “This product line,...
Oct 25 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its “A+” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Employers Reinsurance Corp. and affiliated insurance/reinsurance entities (collectively...