All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2019 // The Hanover Insurance Group is debuting a digital platform to help independent agents acquire new small business customers including freelancers, contractors and other self-employed professionals.Calleed Insurago, the...
Apr 16 2019 // A federal commission decision that an employer had a duty to protect a social services worker who was stabbed to death by a client, even though the company did not violate any specific safety standard, reinvigorated...
Apr 15 2019 // Nationwide said it has expanded 24-hour access to more types of small business for its Commercial Digital Direct online commercial insurance platform.Now, 30 different business types can access the platform. Businessowners...
Apr 15 2019 // A.M. Best maintains its negative outlook for the U.S. commercial auto insurance market even though its analysts believe it should improve somewhat in 2019.That forecast stems from commercial auto insurers having taken...
Apr 12 2019 // Patricia Ross, Raphael Strumlauf and Kate DeNeveu each have at least one thing in common: They’re generally happy with their business insurance.Each owns a business at the downtown pedestrian mall in Charlottesville,...
Apr 11 2019 // The head of Illinois-based global insurance brokerage, Gallagher, has signed a pledge to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace.Gallagher Chairman, President and CEO J. Patrick Gallagher Jr., has signed the...
Apr 11 2019 // The annual Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index documents the top 10 causes of the most serious workplace injuries – those causing an employee to miss five or more days from work – and ranks them by their direct cost...
Apr 10 2019 // Digital insurance broker Embroker announced its $28 million Series B funding round.Embroker said it will use the funding to scale adoption of its insurance management platform, data-driven service offering, and proprietary...
Apr 5 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has launched a new commercial package product in Pennsylvania.The new offering includes: commercial property with limits up to $120 million per location with an enhanced causes...
Apr 4 2019 // A.M. Best maintains its negative outlook for the U.S. commercial auto insurance market even though its analysts believe it should improve somewhat in 2019.That forecast stems from commercial auto insurers having taken...
Apr 3 2019 // Nationwide said it has expanded 24-hour access to more types of small business for its Commercial Digital Direct online commercial insurance platform.Now, 30 different business types can access the platform, which enables...
Apr 2 2019 // A forklift operator was killed when he was struck by a car during a business delivery.KCAL reports that the unidentified man in his 60s was making a delivery of live poultry in the Pacoima neighborhood of Los Angeles when...
Apr 2 2019 // Hub International Northeast Limited, a subsidiary of the global insurance brokerage, risk advisory and employee benefits firm, Hub International Limited, has re-hired James Hutchinson as executive vice president of...
Apr 1 2019 // An Edmond, Oklahoma, man has admitted to embezzling more than $755,000 from his employer and to tax fraud.Court documents show 74-year-old Odis Aubrey King admitted in a plea agreement that he wrote more than 200 company...
Apr 1 2019 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd. (SI), a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that Christopher Gallagher has been promoted to the newly created role of chief...
Apr 1 2019 // Women suffer 70 percent of all nonfatal assault-related injuries involving days away from work and are disproportionately impacted by other safety issues, according to an analysis by the National Safety Council.The number...
Apr 1 2019 // In the era of #MeToo when the ills of sexual harassment are regularly in the news, a recent article published by Bloomberg Businessweek indicates that some men working in the London insurance market still haven’t...
Mar 28 2019 // A wood pallet manufacturer in Beloit, Wisconsin, has been cited by workplace safety regulators for safety and health violations and now faces more than $188,000 in penalties.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Mar 27 2019 // United Parcel Service Inc. and a startup drone partner began the first continuing commercial drone deliveries in the U.S., making a short flight carrying a medical sample between North Carolina hospitals on Tuesday.The...
Mar 27 2019 // Federal safety officials have fined a metal heat treatment company based in Bowling Green, Ohio, $1,326,367 for exposing its employees to severe workplace hazards.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...