All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2017 // Hub International Northeast (Hub Northeast), a subsidiary of Hub International Limited (Hub), has promoted senior vice president and chief sales officer (CSO), Ken Schreiber, to president of commercial lines.In this new...
Jun 16 2017 // Some see insurtech as the enemy. Others see it as a sign of things to come.Then there’s EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, which is clearly embracing the insurtech craze while soliciting brokers to join them....
Jun 16 2017 // British insurer Aviva plans to launch a new product to cover small and medium-sized businesses against cyber attacks later this year as part of an expansion of its specialist insurance division, its chief executive for UK...
Jun 8 2017 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency has been selected as the program administrator for QBE North America’s small commercial insurance portfolio, consisting of property and casualty business accounts under $100,000 in...
Jun 8 2017 // The U.S. Labor Department on Wednesday said it was rescinding the Obama administration’s standard for determining when companies are “joint employers” of contract and franchise workers, in the...
Jun 7 2017 // Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has revised its rating outlook to negative from stable for American International Group (AIG).The move came despite AIG recently hiring a new CEO, Brian Duperreault. At the same...
Jun 7 2017 // Fatal workplace shootings, like the one Monday in Orlando, Florida, are ticking upward in the United States, government statistics show.Revenge against an employer, romantic partner or co-workers often is the motive,...
Jun 6 2017 // Reno Nev.-based Employers has named Scott R. Grinna as vice president of enterprise program management. Grinna has experience in IT and program management with 25 years in the IT industry. Grinna joins Employers from West...
Jun 5 2017 // Nineteen lawmakers are testing their luck at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up a case on whether military reservists’ unfair dismissal claims can be forced into arbitration by their civilian...
Jun 5 2017 // An Oklahoma civil appeals court ruled in favor of an employer and its insurer by upholding an order by the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission affirming an employer’s right to direct the medical treatment...
Jun 2 2017 // Wanda Becotte will join tKg Wholesale Brokerage as senior underwriter, Small Business Division serving its Southeastern region.Becotte began her insurance career in 2002, working on the retail side for nine years. During...
Jun 1 2017 // The May IVANS Index shows that for the first time in several months, premium renewal rates in all major commercial insurance lines are in positive territory. Notably, May is the first time in 2017 that workers’...
May 30 2017 // Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings AG has announced the launch of its UK Commercial Division.“Our clients tell us they need simple, affordable and flexible insurance solutions and our UK Commercial Division delivers...
May 25 2017 // Zurich North America is bringing its Specialty Products business together with its North America Commercial Insurance as part of a continued streamlining of operations.The company said the move will provide easier access...
May 25 2017 // FM Global has expanded its Global Resilience Index to include insights around three of the top risks facing businesses: cyber attack, natural hazards and supply chain failure.The interactive, online index ranks 130...
May 23 2017 // The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld an $85,000 discrimination judgment against a company whose owner repeatedly called a black worker “chocolate” and other racial epithets. Justices upheld the Dubuque Human...
May 19 2017 // Federal officials warned a commission overseeing Arizona’s workplace safety agency that its practice of lowering fines on companies for worker injuries and deaths violates the state’s laws and could jeopardize...
May 18 2017 // With a California Legislative deadline looming, a business advocate is calling attention to bills that he believes owners and managers of small businesses should take note of in his second annual list of “Good, Bad...
May 18 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations’ Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board today approved a regulation aimed at strengthening workplace safety and health at oil refineries across the...
May 17 2017 // An Oklahoma civil appeals court ruled in favor of an employer and its insurer in affirming an order by the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission, asserting an employer’s right to direct the medical...