Latest Small Business Headlines

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Nevada-based Insurtech Talage Offering Workers’ Comp, Liability, Property Online

Jun 29 2018 // Talage Inc. is an insurtech to its core – both in function and name.The Reno, Nev.-based software platform designed to help small business owners compare and quickly purchase a range of commercial insurance policies...

Insurtech Agency CoverWallet Offers Its API for Other Small Firms to Offer Insurance

Jun 27 2018 // Digital small business insurance agency CoverWallet, which is partly owned by insurers Zurich Insurance and Starr Companies, is expanding its distribution by letting other small businesses such as accountants and lenders...

Chubb Adds Artisan Contractors Coverage to Small Business Online Platform

Jun 22 2018 // Chubb has introduced a new insurance product available to more than 60 classes of artisan contractors through its new digital platform – the Chubb Small Commercial Marketplace, which places and services small business...

Small Businesses That Ignore Lessons from Cyber Attack Likely to Suffer Another: Hiscox

Jun 20 2018 // While 47 percent of small businesses suffered at least one cyber attack in the past year, only 35 percent of them took action following a cyber security incident to mitigate against another. Forty-four percent of small...

Trump Labor Chief Readies Rule to Allow Small Business Health Plans

Jun 19 2018 // The Trump administration wants to make it easier for small businesses to join together to offer cheaper health insurance plans that would lack some of the protections required under Obamacare.The U.S. Labor Department on...

How to Succeed in Today’s Small Business Insurance Market

May 30 2018 // The small business market is big. The U.S. small commercial market represents about one-third of the total commercial lines market and generates between $99 billion and $103 billion in direct written premium, according to...

Businesses, Big and Small, Come to Terms with New Data Privacy Law

May 23 2018 // Lisa Meyer’s London hair salon is a cozy place where her mother serves homemade macaroons, children climb on chairs and customers chat above the whirr of hairdryers.Most of the time Meyer is focused on hairstyles,...

Cybersecurity Professional Deploys Insurtech to Simplify Small Business Cyber Market

May 23 2018 // A small business owner and cybersecurity professional frustrated by the complicated cyber coverage buying process decided to take matters into his own hands – he became a cyber insurance broker.“I wanted to solve...

Small Businesses Hampered by Uninsured Losses After 2017 Hurricanes: Fed Reserve

May 7 2018 // Small businesses in the United States struggled with uninsured damages and lost revenue following a record-breaking year of hurricanes and wildfires in 2017, according to a Federal Reserve survey published in April.The...

Small Businesses Hampered by Uninsured Damage After 2017 Hurricanes: Fed Reserve

Apr 17 2018 // Small businesses in the United States struggled with uninsured damages and lost revenue following a record-breaking year of hurricanes and wildfires, according to a Federal Reserve survey published on Tuesday.The report by...

The New Small Commercial: Why Carriers Need to Better Serve ‘Small Specialty’

Apr 16 2018 // The evolution of the small businesses is creating a service challenge for independent agents and an opportunity for carriers to provide efficient and effective solutions for their agent partners by expanding their service...

CyberPolicy Expands Cybersecurity Offerings for Small Businesses

Apr 6 2018 // CyberPolicy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CoverHound Inc. that offers an online cyber insurance and security product for small businesses, has unveiled a new set of complimentary offerings to help small businesses protect...

How Cyber FICO Ratings Could Benefit Insurance Underwriting

Mar 7 2018 // Nearly 30 years ago the Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO) first introduced its metric for measuring creditworthiness. Since then, the FICO Score has become a default metric used by countless market participants to facilitate...

5 Strategies for Success in Small Business Market

Mar 5 2018 // The small business market is big. The U.S. small commercial market represents about one-third of the total commercial lines market and generates between $99 billion and $103 billion in direct written premium, according to...

The Hartford to Acquire Foremost’s Commercial Lines Business

Feb 19 2018 // The Hartford has agreed to acquire Foremost Insurance branded small commercial lines business from Farmers.The Hartford is acquiring the renewal rights on $200 million in small commercial lines premium sold through about...

The Hartford Adds Employee Benefits, E&S Options to Small Business Online Quote System

Feb 5 2018 // The Hartford has enhanced ICON, its online quoting system for agents and brokers, to include access to quote employee benefits as well as excess and surplus (E&S) coverage for their small business customers.Employee...

Trump Rule Permits Health Plans by Self-Employed, Small Businesses That Skirt Obamacare

Jan 5 2018 // The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a rule to allow Americans who are self-employed or work for small businesses to buy health insurance that does not comply with all Obamacare requirements in an effort to unwind...

What They Are Saying About Effects of Trump Tax Cuts on Insurance Industry

Dec 22 2017 // Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR1) into law. It is the biggest tax change in 30 years.Under the legislation, insurers, agencies and other businesses organized as C...

Arrowhead Expands Its New Small Business Underwriting Staff

Dec 14 2017 // San Diego, CA, December 14, 2017 – Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. (Arrowhead) has announced the addition of Alan Nelson as West region leader of Arrowhead Core Commercial. Al comes to Arrowhead with over 30...

Small Businesses Want More Self-Service Workers’ Comp Tools: Survey

Dec 4 2017 // Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of America’s small business owners believe workers’ compensation carriers could improve their customer service if they offered more online or self-service tools. Better...