All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2000 // RLI Corp. has formed RLI Commercial Surety to augment its surety division. The group of commercial surety professionals will develop the product line into a significant component of RLI’s successful surety segment,...
Dec 7 2000 // Legislation to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in Washington, D.C. achieved final passage Tuesday through a unanimous vote of the District of Columbia Council. The Insurance Trade and Economic...
Nov 20 2000 // Property/casualty rates for small, medium and large commercial lines continued to rise between July 1 and Sept. 30, according to The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ Commercial Insurance Market Index for the...
Nov 15 2000 // Kemper Insurance Cos. is targeting the small business market for substantial growth with a new line of specialized coverages, capitalizing on the economy’s fastest-growing segment, which generates more than $50...
Nov 10 2000 // Legislation to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in D.C. cleared another legislative hurdle yesterday when the District of Columbia Council voted unanimously to approve the “Insurance Trade and...
Nov 8 2000 // SAFECO subsidiary American States Business Insurance will now be called SAFECO Business Insurance. The change comes three years after SAFECO acquired Indianapolis-based American States Insurance, a purchase that filled...
Oct 26 2000 // Spectrum 2000 is an especially significant improvement since it offers much more flexibility and greater protection against property and liability losses.More than 700 types of businesses can now be protected with The...
Oct 23 2000 // Surplus Inc., a Spring, Tex.-based MGA, has acquired the commercial book of business from Combined Independent Agencies (CIA). The book includes property, casualty, package and commercial auto. CIA’s workers’...
Oct 23 2000 // Someone up above has been listening. How else can one explain the hardening market that has been the subject of thousands of prayers. Both agents and E&S vendors, then, should be doubly excited about the commercial...
Sep 26 2000 // The Hartford has expanded Spectrum, its signature product for small business, and is now providing more coverages and higher basic and optional limits, while extending eligibility to more than 200 additional classes of...
Sep 18 2000 // Commercial property-casualty rates continued to increase across the country, according to a report by The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB).Through its quarterly Market Index Survey, released last month, CIAB...
Sep 14 2000 // Good news for workers, employers and insurers alike: the number of workers killed on the job in California in 1999 was at the lowest level since 1992. These findings and others were recently published in the annual report...
Sep 4 2000 // Commercial property-casualty rates continued to increase across the country, according to a report by The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers.The same held true in Texas, where brokers estimate premium increases...
Aug 16 2000 // Commercial property-casualty rates continued to increase across the country according to a report by The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers.Through its quarterly Market Index Survey, released today, The Council...
Aug 7 2000 // A new survey reveals many of the nation’s largest employers are not prepared to handle e-commerce and e-communication risks. The Assurex E-Risk Survey, conducted by the Human Resource Institute of Eckerd College in...
Aug 4 2000 // InsuranceNoodle.com, a new insurance e-broker, has launched an online insurance solution targeted at small business owners in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas. By September, the company expects to...
Jul 24 2000 // Travelers Insurance has reached an agreement in principle with Reliance Group Holdings to purchase the renewal rights to a portion of Reliance Insurance Group’s commercial lines middle-market book of...
Jul 13 2000 // Legislation to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in Washington D.C. was approved by the District of Columbia Council. Under the legislation, large commercial risks are exempt from filing requirements for...
Jul 12 2000 // Following a nine-month investigation, Mostafa Behesti, 43, and Rahimi Morteza, 59, owners of Castello Inc., along with bookkeeper Emma Luz Guerzon, 46, and Margaro Haro, 37, owner of Haro’s Landscaping, were all...
Jun 26 2000 // Chalk up 2000 as another year for making great strides in passing legislation relating to deregulation. Since 1997, 21 states have passed laws deregulating commercial lines to one degree or another. “In 2000, we had...