All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 21 2000 // A Westmoreland County employer who pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor violations of the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law was recently sentenced to five years probation, ordered to pay $14,798 in restitution and...
Jun 20 2000 // Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, an international insurance organization, announced today that its U.S. offices have changed their names to JLT Services Corp. The name change affects Jardine Group Services Corporation;...
Jun 11 2000 // London based Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corp. (HSBC) announced the launch of an interactive commercial insurance service for the U.K.’s small business community. Initially the service will offer commercial property...
Jun 6 2000 // The New York State Senate Insurance Committee has given its approval to a bill that would exempt certain purchasers of commercial insurance from rate and policy form filing requirements. The bill, supported by the American...
May 23 2000 // Beginning in June, The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. will begin providing agencies with the ability to complete applications and receive and accept binding insurance quotes in real time through their agency...
May 22 2000 // Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening signed legislation last week removing form filing requirements for commercial insurers and sophisticated clients. Senate Bill 598 exempts some large commercial policyholders from obtaining...
Apr 18 2000 // Insure.com has introduced a new Small Business Insurance Forum, where readers can receive individual help with insurance problems. The forum joins insure.com’s other long-running forums focusing on auto, health, home...
Apr 12 2000 // Nebraska became the fourth state this year to enact a law simplifying the commercial lines rate and form filing process. The bill, introduced at the request of the Nebraska Department of Insurance, was referred to as the...
Apr 7 2000 // The Nebraska Unicameral has passed a bill implementing a file-and-use system for commercial insurance lines, exempting certain large commercial policyholders from the new rate and form filing requirements. Thresholds for...
Apr 7 2000 // InsureZone began offering business insurance coverage online Thursday at InsureZone.com. Policies available on the InsureZone web site are targeted to businesses with 50 or fewer employees. Coverage includes business...
Apr 7 2000 // More than half of firms with sales between $5 million and $100 million are very satisfied with insurers’ understanding of their needs and the coverage they offered to meet those needs according to a recent business...
Apr 4 2000 // An estimated 80 percent of small businesses would consider changing their property-casualty carrier unless they were completely satisfied with their business insurance according to a survey conducted by CustomerStance, a...