All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2019 // Workplace violence leaves chaos in its wake. Besides the psychic trauma, physical injuries and even sometimes fatalities, there are enormous financial impacts. Some are obvious, but many show up only with insightful...
Jul 2 2019 // The Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center has been awarded about $700,000 in grant money to identify how businesses can prevent opioid addiction in the workplace and help employees recover. The Lexington Herald Leader reports...
Jun 28 2019 // When Jim McLaughlin died suddenly from a heart attack at age 64, his family assumed they would have to close his homebuilding business. He’d made no plans for someone to succeed him at McLaughlin Construction, and...
Jun 21 2019 // Satellite Agency Network Group Inc. (SAN), a Hampton, N.H.-based alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, has hired Kathy Gray as commercial lines placement specialist.Gray, a licensed broker and notary...
Jun 20 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued special data call to companies that wrote direct commercial property or businessowners insurance in Texas and to certain farm mutual insurance companies that wrote...
Jun 19 2019 // Extraco Banks has sold its commercial insurance operation to Fort Worth, Texas-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham.Extraco Insurance is a group of five property/casualty insurance professionals operating in...
Jun 18 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Hawthorn, Victoria-based P2 Group.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2003, P2 Group helps employers proactively manage occupational health and...
Jun 17 2019 // Commercial insurance prices in the U.S. increased in the first quarter about 2%, according to insurance broker and advisor Willis Towers Watson.The company’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS) survey...
Jun 14 2019 // A postal worker on disability retirement for psychological issues returned to her workplace years later and killed six people. A Connecticut beer delivery worker irate over being forced to resign opened fire as he was...
Jun 13 2019 // Fitch Ratings said it maintains a stable outlook for U.S. commercial lines, reflecting the potential for moderately better underwriting profits and the ability of insurers to withstand potential adversity due to capital...
Jun 11 2019 // Federal workplace safety officials have proposed $302,147 in penalties against a Family Dollar Store in Omaha, Nebraska.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited...
Jun 11 2019 // IronPro, the professional liability unit of Ironshore, has introduced a two-term policy endorsement for its miscellaneous professional liability (MPL) product for small business accounts.The MPL policy endorsement was...
Jun 11 2019 // Commercial insurance prices in the U.S. increased in the first quarter about 2%, according to insurance broker and advisor Willis Towers Watson.The company’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS) survey...
Jun 6 2019 // Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (PPCI) has entered the Kansas commercial auto insurance market as an admitted carrier specializing in distressed and substandard risks.With PPCI, producers now have an insurance...
Jun 5 2019 // More than 1 in 10 people with a range of non-cancerous lung diseases may be sick as a result of inhaling vapors, gas, dust or fumes at work, according to a joint American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory...
Jun 4 2019 // Western Growers Insurance Services Inc. has named Natalie Berend senior director of commercial lines. Berend will lead the account management team and is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating operational...
Jun 4 2019 // AAdvantage Insurance Group in Glen Carbon, Illinois, has hired Amy Glowacki as a commercial marketer.In this position, she will assist agents in generating quotes and proposals for the company’s commercial insurance...
Jun 4 2019 // AXA XL Insurance has partnered with IPRS Health to launch an employer’s liability insurance solution, AXA XL HealthAssist, for UK organizations.With workplace injury and new cases of work-related ill-health costing...
May 31 2019 // Global insurance broker Aon is partnering with digital insurance platform CoverWallet to serve clients in Australia.The parties also said they are in the process of expanding this partnership to additional geographies,...
May 29 2019 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has hired three new underwriters to its Commercial Specialty division.April Cook comes to AUI with background in the underwriting industry, starting as a property and casualty renewal...