All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2002 // S&P’s Ratings affirmed its ‘BBBpi’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Employers Mutual Casualty Co. and related pool members (collectively referred to as EMC) based on the...
Dec 9 2002 // Main Street America Group, the Keene, N.H.-based parent of National Grange Mutual Insurance and Old Dominion Insurance, announced the launch of a new online quoting tool, Quick Quote, for commercial insurance products on...
Dec 9 2002 // Results of a recent survey conducted by the Independent Insurance Agent Association of New York Inc. (IIAANY) indicate a continuing decrease in availability of both personal and commercial insurance coverages in the state,...
Dec 9 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher warned employers in his state that they might have non-existent workers’ compensation policies, after learning that a series of unauthorized certificates were issued in...
Dec 5 2002 // U.S. commercial-lines insurers are still plagued by inadequate reserves, according to Standard & Poor’s just-published outlook for 2003, and bullish pricing cannot simply sweep the problem away.Standard &...
Dec 3 2002 // Commercial P&C insurance software provider, INSTEC, announces that Builders Insurance Group (BIG) of Georgia has implemented INSTEC’s Commercial Package Policy software for their General Liability line of...
Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: JLD Insurance Brokerage is offering a program for commercial auto and general liability.Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. Carrier: Admitted market.States Available: California.Contact:...
Nov 25 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...
Nov 20 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its ‘BBBpi’ (the ‘pi’ indicates the ratings are based on “public information”) counterparty credit and...
Nov 15 2002 // Independent agents and brokers are capturing an increasing share of both the personal lines and commercial lines markets, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s (IIABA) annual market share study...
Nov 15 2002 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) announced that the American International Companies have introduced Workplace Assurance(SM), an insurance coverage for the financial loss associated with incidents of violence in...
Oct 28 2002 // The Harleysville Group Inc. of Harleysville, Pa. announced results for the third quarter of 2002.Company chairman and CEO Walter Bateman noted that commercial lines also achieved a combined ratio of 100 percent. “Our...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....