All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 18 2019 // Venture Insurance Programs, a national insurance program administrator, has unveiled Venture Small Business – a new business unit designed to simplify how agents and brokers quote and bind business for more than 150...
Oct 15 2019 // A group of occupational medicine doctors is warning that legalization of marijuana has “huge” public and workplace health and safety implications that Congress should consider when dealing with the issue.The...
Oct 10 2019 // Federal officials have cited an Ohio foundry with three repeated and 18 serious health violations for exposing employees to crystalline silica above the permissible exposure levels.As a result, Liberty Casting Company in...
Oct 8 2019 // The contractor overseeing stone restoration on the Missouri state Capitol plans to appeal federal fines for workplace safety violations.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recommended a total of $19,890 in...
Oct 7 2019 // Insurtech Next Insurance has pulled in a $250 million financing round from a single investor: Munich Re.Palo Alto-based Next said it plans to use the Series C cash infusion to scale up its small business insurance products...
Oct 7 2019 // Florida-based Acentria Insurance has been busy since its founding by industry veteran Kendall McEachern in 2010. The personal and commercial lines agency has acquired several agencies and now has 50 locations and more than...
Oct 7 2019 // Scores of local government officials from 31 U.S. states pressured McDonald’s Corp.’s in late September to do a better job of protecting workers from groping, obscene comments and other forms of sexual...
Oct 3 2019 // Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Italy’s biggest insurer, may invest at least 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) to grow through mid-size acquisitions in insurance and asset management, according to Chief Executive Officer...
Oct 3 2019 // The terms and conditions of employment — including pay, hours, schedule flexibility and job security — influence employees’ overall health as well as their risk of being injured on the job, according to new...
Oct 3 2019 // HSB, part of Munich Re, has introduced a cellular IoT sensor product designed to help smaller businesses and organizations prevent property damage.The device leverages IoT-specific cellular networks and connects to the...
Oct 2 2019 // It’s a marriage between two of Wall Street’s hottest products.Collateralized loan obligations — typically chock-full of broadly-syndicated debt — are increasingly being stuffed with private loans...
Oct 1 2019 // Cyber-attacks are named as the leading risk for business executives in the United States, Canada and Europe, according to a survey of business leaders published by the World Economic Forum, in partnership with Zurich...
Sep 27 2019 // Scores of local government officials from 31 U.S. states pressured McDonald’s Corp.’s on Thursday to do a better job of protecting workers from groping, obscene comments and other forms of sexual harassment,...
Sep 23 2019 // Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers tells employers to watch their mailboxes as it prepares to send out dividend checks totaling around $1.5 billion.The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation says strong...
Sep 23 2019 // Bold Penguin, a Columbus Ohio commercial insurance technology provider, said it has completed a $32 million Series B funding round, bringing the total capital it has raised to more than $50 million since it started in...
Sep 20 2019 // Torrent Technologies, a Marsh company, has launched FloodPlus Commercial – a comprehensive private market primary flood insurance offering for agents of its Write Your Own (WYO) carrier clients.Underwritten by...
Sep 19 2019 // Nationwide said it has formally launched a commercial insurance digital storefront targeted to small businesses.Small business owners will be able to use the site online directly to generate a quote and bind a policy, or...
Sep 18 2019 // Lloyd’s of London expects “sobering” results from a survey of the workplace culture at its member firms, the insurance market’s chairman said on Wednesday as a rise in investment income drove a...
Sep 17 2019 // Managing general agent (MGA) Fairmatic has introduced a usage-based insurance model that features monthly commercial auto premium adjustments based on an insured’s driving behaviors.Fairmatic’s...
Sep 17 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has expanded its Commercial Package product into New Jersey.This offering includes: Commercial property with limits up to $120 million per location with an enhanced causes of...