All the headlines from our Retail Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 15 2006 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc., faced with a new Maryland law designed to pressure the retail chain into spending more money on health insurance for its employees, is considering a challenge to the groundbreaking legislation.Sarah...
Jan 13 2006 // Maryland became the first state to pass legislation requiring Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to spend a minimum amount on health care for its employees or pay the difference in taxes as the Democrat-controlled legislature overrode...
Jan 9 2006 // The first completely new insurance company established in Michigan in six years was announced today with the Michigan Retailers Association’s launch of the Retailers Mutual Insurance Company.Retailers Mutual is a...
Jan 5 2006 // A proposed Maryland law that attempts to pressure Wal-Mart to provide better health care benefits for its employees would violate federal law, the Maryland Chamber of Commerce said.The business group issued a report just...
Sep 5 2005 // The Road Ahead for SurplusLines Wholesalers The model surplus lines insurance whole of 2010 should be faster, bigger, better, leaner, able to cross state lines and come in colors other than white.Industry leaders predict...
Jul 29 2005 // The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported today that it has found significant easing in both commercial and retail credit underwriting standards over the past year.The OCC’s eleventh annual Survey...
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus-lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
Jul 18 2005 // Working With E&S Wholesalers: Be Nice You’ll Need Them Again!The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a...
Jul 18 2005 // Working With Your E&S Wholesaler: Be Nice You’ll Need Them Again!The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a...
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
Apr 18 2005 // Workplace violence and staff turnover are cited by risk managers in the retail industry as among their biggest challenges to effectively managing their workers’ compensation exposures.According to a recent study...
Apr 18 2005 // Specialty Risk Associates, a managing general agency headquartered in Shreveport, La., has been on the move in the past several years–expanding beyond its Louisiana base into neighboring states–and has plans to...
Apr 4 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Mar 21 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Feb 21 2005 // Response Time, Service Crucial When Selecting E&S Brokers, IJ Survey ReportsRetail agents and brokers consider service and response time delivered by excess and surplus lines brokers to be critical factors when...
Feb 21 2005 // The emergence of large national and regional firms and the creation of networks of brokers as industry kings are transforming the nation’s wholesale insurance marketplace but experts maintain that independent...
Feb 21 2005 // Rising property prices and a healthy economy after the election year have encouraged competition for casualty business. Although account size is sometimes a factor in the directions prices move, E&S specialists say...
Feb 7 2005 // Florida is suing Savannah-based Friedman’s Inc. retail jewelry chain, alleging it sold millions of dollars worth of insurance on jewelry items but didn’t disclose the costs to consumers.Friedman’s, which...
Dec 23 2004 // Addison, Texas-based Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc. reported it has signed definitive agreements to acquire the assets of two non-standard automobile insurance agency operations. In two separate transactions,...