All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 2 2017 // Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics.It’s a trend that’s...
Aug 1 2017 // MMG Insurance Company, a Presque Isle, Maine-headquartered regional property and casualty insurance company, has hired Derek Hochradel as vice president of commercial lines, effective July 31, 2017.“Growth of...
Jul 28 2017 // In Youngstown, Ohio, the employment problem is not a shortage of jobs. Nor is it a shortage of workers. The problem is not stingy employers who don’t want to pay enough to attract good workers. Nor is the problem...
Jul 26 2017 // A Tennessee woman accused of stealing $3 million from a trucking company’s New Jersey facility has been sentenced. Fifty-five-year-old Tracey Perrigan, of Sparta, was sentenced to 33 months in prison Monday. Perrigan...
Jul 24 2017 // Chubb Workplace Benefits in Chicago has promoted Jon Wayland to senior vice president of sales. Wayland has 30 years of insurance industry experience and previously served as vice president of brokerage channel sales. In...
Jul 24 2017 // About 40 percent of employment practices liability policies (EPLI) that I review fail to cover allegations of employment-related breach of privacy. These range from complaints that the employer failed to protect sensitive...
Jul 24 2017 // Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of catastrophic coastal insurance, announced that it expanded its Commercial Lines business to two new states: Alabama and Mississippi.The two new states join New...
Jul 19 2017 // Starr Companies is now a minority shareholder in online small business insurance agency CoverWallet.CoverWallet confirmed the deal that was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. No financial terms were disclosed....
Jul 19 2017 // Farmers Insurance has named new presidents for two of its key business units. Sharon Fernandez, most recently president of Bristol West Insurance, has been appointed president of Business Insurance at Farmers. In addition,...
Jul 18 2017 // A new report by the research and advisory firm, Novarica, shows that commercial insurance carriers are modernizing policy administration systems and agent portals to support complexities of business. Novarica also says use...
Jul 14 2017 // A Connecticut woman who stole more than $250,000 from her Massachusetts employer even as he struggled with dementia and cancer has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison.Angela Craig was sentenced Tuesday in U.S....
Jul 12 2017 // Independent agents want to talk about underwriting, and they’re urging their carriers to listen. Preliminary results from the 2017 Channel Harvest Research survey indicate agents want to see companies put greater...
Jul 7 2017 // Leavitt United Insurance Services has added Martin Chavez to the agency’s Napa, Calif. location. Chavez is a commercial producer. He specializes in risk management consulting for workers’ compensation and...
Jul 7 2017 // Munich Reinsurance America Inc. (Munich Re, US), has launched a new commercial drone insurance product that offers customized liability for insurance companies and their small-to-medium size businesses using drones under...
Jul 5 2017 // The Villages Insurance Partners (TVIP) has added Lisa Sardisco to their Commercial Risk Management Division in The Villages, Fla.The Villages Insurance Commercial Risk Management Team specializes in protecting business...
Jun 30 2017 // Marine insurance provider Skuld announced that Kristoffer Kohmann is the new head of Skuld Oslo 2, one of its Oslo business units. Kohmann will succeed Ketil Urdal who, after 16 years with Skuld and a career spanning 20...
Jun 27 2017 // Chubb has appointed Leigh Anne Sherman to lead its Private/Not-For-Profit Management Liability business within the North America Financial Lines division.Sherman will have overall responsibility for leading the...
Jun 27 2017 // XL Catlin has entered into an exclusive underwriting agreement with The McGowan Companies to provide workplace violence insurance to U.S. businesses.Nearly two million American workers are victims of workplace violence...
Jun 21 2017 // San Diego, CA, June 21, 2017- Investigation Solutions, Inc. (ISI) worked alongside the California Department of Insurance in a $32 million workers’ compensation fraud case that resulted in an arrest earlier this...
Jun 19 2017 // The Trump administration on Friday sided with employers in a Supreme Court case over the rights of workers to bring class action lawsuits against companies, court documents showed.Reversing a position staked out earlier by...