All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2004 // The Massachusetts auto insurance industry is streamlining the way it handles high risk commercial auto risks by reducing the number of servicing carriers involved in handling them and equalizing access to the residual...
Apr 16 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released the following statement in regards to the recent agreement by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature for a workers’ compensation reform...
Apr 15 2004 // The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is offering new Preferred Risk Policy (PRP) products for both the commercial market and renters markets.NFIP says these policies were created in response to consumer demand for...
Apr 14 2004 // New Jersey-based Selective Insurance Group Inc. has announced the successfully completed rollout of the company’s fully integrated Web-based commercial lines system. “Web-based CLAS” offers policy quote,...
Apr 14 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed an injunction against a state employer whose account with the Commission is in default.The injunction was filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court...
Apr 13 2004 // St. Paul Travelers has introduced an enhanced version of Global Companion, an international commercial property and general liability product designed to help protect U.S.-based companies from the risks associated with...
Apr 12 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher is alerting employers to use caution when considering setting up a health benefit plan through a Single Employer Trust (SET) document that requires sending financial...
Apr 8 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 5 2004 // In most offices, it’s easier to get a bone from a starving dog than it is to take a commercial account from an agency producer. That’s because the current producer is always the executive on a business account...
Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: InsureVianet introduced a new Internet-based small business workers’ compensation insurance program for agencies in Indiana and Michigan. This technology allows agents and brokers to enter...
Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has updated its Customarq Classic property policy. Chubb’s Customarq Classic offers U.S. and Canadian commercial customers a choice of monoline property...
Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has updated its Customarq Classic property policy. Chubb’s Customarq Classic offers U.S. and Canadian commercial customers a choice of monoline property...
Mar 31 2004 // Atlantic Mutual closed the sale today of its subsidiary, Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company, and the renewal rights to select commercial insurance business, including the unearned premiums on the acquired book, to...
Mar 31 2004 // Eighty percent of the leading commercial property/casualty insurance brokers say the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) should be extended when it expires at the end of 2005, according to a survey released today...
Mar 30 2004 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based commercial lines insurer Zurich North America announced that Thomas Bradley will become chief operating officer of finance and administration and chief financial officer of its North American...
Mar 29 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently concluded a random sweep of 200 employers in the Toledo area to determine whether they have active workers’ compensation coverage, collecting $110,412 in...
Mar 26 2004 // Pennsylvania’s Harleysville Insurance has issued a bulletin noting that for the second time in three years, it has been named the “Top Partner in Commercial Lines” during Westchester County’s 38th...
Mar 25 2004 // The St. Paul Companies announced the introduction of an enhanced version of “Global Companion,” which it described as “an international commercial property and general liability product designed to help...
Mar 24 2004 // In response to the recent Labor Department job report reportedly showing little change in the employment rate, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) suggests businesses invest now in workplace safety, as part of...
Mar 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Massplate Glass Insurance Agency solves the problem of commercial tenants finding glass insurance to satisfy their lease requirements. This easy to use product features fixed limits and premiums, has a...