All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 29 2003 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has downgraded the financial strength rating to “A-” (Excellent) from “A” (Excellent) of Employers Reassurance Corp. (ERAC) and assigned a stable outlook.“The...
Dec 29 2003 // The Houston Association of Insurance Women (HAIW) and Delta General Agency recently announced that Delta and its president and CEO, Bill Fink, were named Employer of the Year for 2003 by the association.In presenting the...
Dec 19 2003 // Employers Direct Insurance Company has cut its workers’ compensation insurance rates by 8.2 percent in its current filing with the California Department of Insurance. This decrease is reportedly more than twice the...
Dec 16 2003 // Workers’ Compensation and disability management experts from across California will meet for a solutions-based conference on workers’ comp issues, Jan. 28-30, in Manhattan Beach, Calif. ABD Insurance and...
Dec 16 2003 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, A Mutual Company (“EICN”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Employers Compensation Insurance Company (“ECIC”) formerly known as Fremont Employers Insurance...
Dec 12 2003 // Interstate Insurance Group (IIG) has successfully implemented Web-based rating for two of its six major commercial lines using a combined interface integrating IT breakthroughs from ePolicy Solutions, Inc. and Docucorp...
Dec 11 2003 // The St. Paul Cos. announced a new CD-ROM and online training series aimed at helping supervisors promote safe and healthy behaviors in the workplace. The series, “Striving for Excellence: Elements of Effective...
Dec 9 2003 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, A Mutual Company, (EICN) announced that it has re-named two wholly-owned subsidiaries. Effective immediately, the company formerly known as Fremont Employers Insurance Company will...
Dec 8 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has commented that the financial strength and debt ratings of the subsidiaries of White Mountains Insurance Group(Hamilton, Bermuda) and Atlantic Mutual Companies (New York, N.Y.), remain unaffected following...
Dec 8 2003 // OneBeacon Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., has signed an agreement in principle to acquire the Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Atlantic Mutual,...
Dec 5 2003 // Michael McGraw, president and CEO of The McGraw Group of Affiliated Companies, has been named a director of Employers Direct Insurance Company. Employers Direct is the first new workers’ compensation insurance...
Dec 4 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin calling the proposal to add commercial liability coverage to the property coverage currently available under the New York Property Insurance...
Dec 1 2003 // The number of workplace fatalities in California declined by 8 percent in 2002 according to the Department of Industrial Relation’s (DIR) Division of Labor Statistics and Research. The number of workers who died on...
Nov 26 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its ‘BBBpi’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Co. The ratings reflect its extremely strong capitalization, strong...
Nov 25 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a former employee of a Hudson County insurance agency has been ordered to pay nearly $4,000 in restitution after reportedly admitting to concocting a scheme to issue...
Nov 21 2003 // Los Angeles-based E.L.M. Insurance Brokers Inc., a specialist in professional liability, targets small to mid-size businesses with its “professional liability suite of products,” which includes liability...
Nov 20 2003 // Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA recently announced that Paul Nhem and Tom Gill will become partnering managers of its dedicated small business program unit. Nhem and Gill will partner with agencies to generate and...
Nov 17 2003 // Coverage options and product offerings, rather than price, are the most important factors for middle market manufacturers when they go looking for insurance to cover their businesses. At least that’s the conclusion...
Nov 17 2003 // Coverage options and product offerings, rather than price, are the most important factors for middle market manufacturers when they go looking for insurance to cover their businesses. At least that’s the conclusion...
Nov 14 2003 // According to a joint federal and state survey, Florida workplaces had 4 percent fewer fatal accidents in 2002 than the previous year.The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), conducted annually by the Department of...