Latest Commercial Lines Headlines

All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Commercial Insurance Market Index Released

Oct 28 2002 // Top commercial insurance brokers, noting insurers have been buffeted by terrorist attacks, stock market woes and increasing environmental hazard claims, have cast their eyes ahead to the coming year and voiced concern that...

TWCC to Hold Workplace Violence Prevention Workshop

Oct 25 2002 // The Workers’ Health and Safety division of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission scheduled a one-day educational seminar on Workplace Violence Prevention for November 13, 2002 in Dallas.The purpose of this...

Garamendi Receives Commissioner Low, Calif. Small Business Endorsements

Oct 25 2002 // Democratic nominee for California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently added current California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low’s endorsement, along with the California Small Business Association...

AgentSecure Acquires Exclusive Endorsement of Two-Thirds of State IIABA Affiliates for Small Commercial Program

Oct 23 2002 // AgentSecure, a division of InsureZone that provides agents with online access to big-brand property/casualty and life products through a single-entry, multiple-company interface (SEMCI), has received exclusive endorsements...

Horizon Sells Commercial Insurance Lines To GIS

Oct 22 2002 // Indiana’s Horizon Insurance Services, Inc. (HIS), a subsidiary of Horizon Bancorp, announced that it has sold its commercial and group insurance lines to General Insurance Service (GIS) effective Nov. 1, 2002.The...

GE Employers Re Agrees to Sell Accountants’ E&O

Oct 21 2002 // GE Employers Reinsurance Corporation (GE ERC) has finalized an agreement to sell the renewal rights on its accountants’ Errors & Omissions business underwritten by its Westport Insurance Corporation to...

Additional Workplace Safety Workshop Offered to Pa. Business Owners

Oct 18 2002 // A fourth safety workshop conducted by the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be offered to small business owners and manager Oct. 22...

Workplace Fatalities Rise 12 Percent in Florida

Oct 17 2002 // The Florida Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation, released a census report revealing that workplace fatalities in Florida rose by 12 percent in 2001, marking the first increase in three years....

CORRECTION: S&P Rating for Employers Re is ‘AA+’

Oct 9 2002 // The article which appeared Friday concerning Standard & Poor’s decision to lower its ratings on Swiss Re from ‘AAA’ to ‘AA+’ incorrectly identified Employers Re (ERC) as one of the three...

Hartford Accepts Exposure Schedules in XML Transaction Based on ACORD XML Large Commercial Standards

Oct 4 2002 // The Hartford Financial Services Group has eliminated the need to rekey large amounts of property, auto and workers’ compensation data as part of the application and rating process for middle market business.The...

EBRI Study Explores Employers’ Views on Health Insurance

Oct 3 2002 // America’s 6 million employers largely determine the number of insured – and uninsured – Americans, and new research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) examines how and why employers make...

Travelers Unveils Electronic Claim Notification for Personal, Small Business Agencies

Oct 1 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty is now providing its independent agents with online, real-time information on the opening and closing of small business and personal claims.Electronic Claim Notification, or ECN, allows agents...

S&P’s Moves Employers Re ‘AA+’ Ratings to WatchNeg

Oct 1 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has placed its double-‘A’-plus counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Employers Reinsurance Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively referred to as ERC)...

Employers, Insurers Slow To Report Claims Says Missouri Audit Report

Sep 30 2002 // A report from Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill has found that a “vast majority of injuries” are reported late or not at all.The audit evaluated the management of the state’s workers’...

Colo. Division Publishes 2002 Workers’ Comp, Employers Liability Guide

Sep 27 2002 // The Colorado Division of Insurance has published the 2002 Workers’ Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance guide, a survey of workers’ compensation and employers liability insurance loss cost multipliers...

First Commercial Converts From Mutual to Stock Company

Sep 25 2002 // First Commercial Mutual Company (FCMC), a workers’ compensation insurer based in Miami Lakes, Fla., converted from an assessable mutual insurer to a stock insurer and changed its name to First Commercial Insurance...

Insurity Licenses Commercial Intellisys(R) to Venture Programs

Sep 16 2002 // Insurity, a ChoicePoint® has signed a licensing agreement with Venture Programs Inc. for its Commercial Intellisys system. Venture Programs will use Commercial Intellisys for Windows® to rate and process policies for...

Small Businesses Offered Fourth Safety Workshop

Sep 13 2002 // A fourth safety workshop conducted by the insurance industry and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be offered to small business owners in Erie, Pa. Wednesday, Sept. 25.The session,...

AAIS Web Seminar with Revisions to Commercial Output Program Sept. 25

Sep 9 2002 // The American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) will hold the second of its Web-based seminars with a Sept. 25 presentation on a new revision of its Commercial Output Program (COP).The 40-minute presentation,...

Royal & SunAlliance USA Names Ward Executive VP for Commercial Segments

Sep 9 2002 // Steve Ward has been named Executive Vice-President, Commercial Division of Royal & SunAlliance USA responsible for Commercial Segments. He was formerly Senior Vice President for the Manufacturing Business...