All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 19 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Company of Baton Rouge, La., is offering a Commercial Package Policy (CPP) to employers in Mississippi and Alabama. Bridgefield Casualty is a subsidiary of Summit Holdings...
Aug 12 2002 // Workers’ compensation costs for some Colorado employers may decrease on average about 10.2 percent later this year.Insurance Commissioner William J. Kirven III announced that the National Council on Compensation...
Aug 2 2002 // The Hartford Financial Services Group announced its Business Management Group (BMG) will provide agency management expertise to Willis Commercial Network as the latter prepares to expand its U.K. operation throughout the...
Jul 31 2002 // Insurity, a ChoicePoint® company, has signed a licensing agreement with W.J. Cox Associates Inc. for its Commercial Intellisys policy processing system. Provided through Insurity’s outsourcing services division,...
Jul 30 2002 // Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Summit Holding Southeast, Inc., is now offering a Commercial Package Policy (CPP) to employers in Mississippi and Alabama. The Commercial Package Policy (CPP) offers...
Jul 25 2002 // The Hartford Financial Services Group unveiled its new Web site sb.thehartford.com to help entrepreneurs educate themselves about insurance before they buy. The content-rich, interactive Small Business Insurance Center...
Jul 17 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty has launched a new electronic policy view capability to help its independent agents go paperless.The capability allows agents to access, view, print and save commercial insurance policies in...
Jul 17 2002 // Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) has expanded ISO IntegRater™ to deliver commercial-auto advisory loss costs and rating factors so insurers can directly incorporate the information into their rating and...
Jul 4 2002 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada (EICN) has acquired California-based Fremont Compensation Insurance Group’s book of business, effective July 1.Fremont Comp is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fremont General...
Jul 3 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), in conjunction with insurers and OSHA, is hosting a series of workshops in Wisconsin focusing on workplace safety for small businesses.Safety at Work I: Risk...
Jul 1 2002 // Minnesota-based RTW Inc., a provider of workers’ compensation management systems, will launch a new business unit on July 15, to provide its proven core product-case and claims management services-to self-insured...
Jun 28 2002 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency of Texas Inc. has a new commercial automobile program for Texas agents. Target classes include artisan contractors, wholesale/manufacturing/industrial, heavy construction, local and...
Jun 25 2002 // Royal & SunAlliance USA of Charlotte, N.C. has promoted Vince Pugliese to president and chief operating officer of its commercial insurance division. Prior to his promotion, Pugliese served as executive vice president...
Jun 24 2002 // Standard & Poor’s lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Employers Reinsurance Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, ERC) to “AA+” from “AAA”...
Jun 24 2002 // Standard & Poor’s lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Employers Reinsurance Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, ERC) to “AA+” from “AAA”...
Jun 21 2002 // Hardy Good, chairman and CEO of MiniCo Inc., was recently honored as Employer of the Year by the Insurance Women of Phoenix, Inc. (IWOP), an affiliate of the National Association of Insurance Women, Intl. (NAIW). Good...
Jun 12 2002 // Seattle-based SAFECO has introduced its comprehensive plan for changing the way its business insurance is purchased, sold and serviced. The efficient service and pricing system—known as ESP—will deliver greater...
Jun 11 2002 // International Catastrophe Insurance Managers, LLC. (ICAT) has launched its Middle Market Business Unit in California. John Brennan will lead the department’s objectives to underwrite accounts with values of $10...
Jun 3 2002 // June 3, 2002Philadelphia Insurance Companies’ announced the introduction of their new “Flexi-Five® non-profit D&O policy,” described as “providing traditional D&O coverage along with:...
May 24 2002 // Illinois-based INSTEC unveiled the industry’s first complete, native Windows commercial package policy processing solution earlier this week at the 2002 ACORD Conference “Real World Solutions,” in...