All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 7 2004 // Florida, like other states, is working to make sure our residents have access to health care insurance.The recent Medicare reforms passed by Congress gave states an important new option: tax-free savings accounts to pay...
Jun 7 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: AIG Excess Casualty introduced AIG ExcessPrime, a $25 million commercial liability program that provides insureds with additional excess limits. AIG ExcessPrime is designed to sit in excess of $50...
Jun 7 2004 // Health insurance, liability insurance and workers’ compensation are the top three problems facing America’s small business owners, at least that’s what a study from the National Federation of Independent...
Jun 3 2004 // About 1,800 small business employers across Kansas recently received a survey in the mail that could help policymakers find ways to make health insurance more accessible and affordable, according to a statement released by...
Jun 3 2004 // The fourth consecutive Maryland Workplace Safety Week, proclaimed official by the Governor’s office in 2001, begins June 13.The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund (IWIF) sponsors Maryland Workplace Safety Week...
Jun 2 2004 // An Ohio Supreme Court case against a company involved in workers’ compensation hearings could alter the way claims are handled, observers say.“This is a lot bigger than the case it revolves around,” said...
Jun 2 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against four state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default.Injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...
May 28 2004 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada (EICN) has announced the re-election of two members of the company’s Board of Directors. John Sande and Rose McKinney-James were re-elected to additional three-year terms as...
May 27 2004 // AIG Small Business, a unit of the property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group, announced the launch of “AIG eDelivery(SM),” a new submission status and policy retrieval system...
May 21 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to make filings immediately using Insurance Services Office Inc.‘s (ISO) commercial auto advisory information.According to ISO, its advisory...
May 21 2004 // Chances there will be a vote on a key New York tort reform bill have improved after the Democratic sponsor of the bill has made a procedural move that will prompt the Assembly Labor Committee to consider his bill to reform...
May 20 2004 // Employers could get more time to challenge citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and more companies could recoup lawyers’ fees under a set of House bills that would make employer-friendly...
May 17 2004 // As thousands of risk management professionals, carrier executives, vendors and industry watchers gathered at the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s annual conference in San Diego, last month, there was only one...
May 13 2004 // Acordia has named Jean Luckey Commercial Lines Producer in Acordia’s Salt Lake City, Utah office. Luckey is responsible for generating new commercial business, as well as servicing and maintaining existing...
May 11 2004 // The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies announced that Alan Crater has been named regional president of their downstate New York and New Jersey commercial lines divisions, effective immediately.Crater comes to...
May 10 2004 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that it has established a toll-free hotline to assist the state’s small business owners with questions about health, business automobile, property and professional liability...
May 4 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default.The injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...
May 3 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against three state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default.The injunctions were filed in Kanawha...
Apr 29 2004 // A man whose son was killed 11 years ago in a gruesome workplace accident in Florida urged Congress this week to give prosecutors the threat of felony convictions against employers whose neglect for federal safety rules...
Apr 29 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (NASDAQ: PHLY) has launched AutoIDweb, a new service on its AccessPHLY Agent Web Portal that provides agents access to their commercial auto policies with the ability to add/delete vehicles...