All the headlines from our Small Business Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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....
Jun 16 2017 // Aon Affinity, the affinity business of Aon plc, has launched Aon Professional Liability Plus, a nationwide program that provides malpractice insurance to more than 300 classes of traditionally hard-to-place small...
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 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...
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 11 2017 // Bunker, a startup digital insurance broker focused on independent contractors and small businesses, has raised $6 million in Series A funding that will help fuel product development and expansion. Hiscox and American...
May 10 2017 // It has been decades since anyone thought of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., or even its insurance operations, as “very, very small.”But that’s how a senior executive describes biBERK, a...
May 3 2017 // Next Insurance, a digital insurance company for small to medium businesses, said it has raised $29 million in a Series A funding round led by Munich Re/HSB Ventures along with Markel, Nationwide and other existing...
May 2 2017 // Total insurtech funding in the first quarter of 2017 was down, but the drop-off could be a result of the significant investments in 2016 now reaching the product launch phase, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson...
Mar 23 2017 // Chubb has introduced a new online system for independent agents that will quote and issue a comprehensive workers’ compensation policy for small businesses.Chubb’s workers’ compensation policy for small...
Mar 15 2017 // Next Insurance, a digital insurance company for small businesses, has launched a chatbot that enables personal trainers to quote and buy liability insurance via Facebook Messenger.Next said it partnered with chatbot...
Mar 9 2017 // A three-year-old Des Moines, Iowa-based business startup accelerator focused solely on the global insurance industry has developed into a streamlined organization with more applicants, more investors and more mentors than...
Mar 7 2017 // The following summary of the American Health Care Act, meant as a repeal and replacement for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), has been prepared by the Republican staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means. A copy...
Mar 6 2017 // A recently passed bipartisan bill in New Jersey has brought good news to small businesses that want to participate on public construction projects.Senate Bill 123, signed by Gov. Chris Christie on Jan. 4, introduces a new...
Mar 6 2017 // A three-year-old Des Moines, Iowa-based business startup accelerator focused solely on the global insurance industry has developed into a streamlined organization with more applicants, more investors and more mentors than...
Mar 2 2017 // More extreme weather has led to more extreme insurance claims in the U.S. over the past few years.In a review of more than 100,000 commercial catastrophe claims during a 10-year period, Mark A. Anderson, a claims executive...
Feb 24 2017 // With the global cyber insurance market expected to reach $14 billion by 2022, according to Allied Market Research, it’s no wonder more insurers are looking to offer cyber coverage. But small insurers have been...
Feb 7 2017 // Attune, the data-enabled small business platform established by American International Group, Hamilton Insurance Group and affiliates of Two Sigma Investments has named James Hobson, currently chief operating officer of...
Jan 25 2017 // A recently passed bipartisan bill in New Jersey has brought good news to small businesses that want to participate on public construction projects.Senate Bill 123, signed by Governor Chris Christie on January 4, introduces...