All the headlines from our Small Business Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2015 // The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private...
Nov 24 2015 // Parisian businesses struggling after the Nov. 13 attacks are likely to be able to make successful insurance claims, helped by a state-backed fund set up in the wake of the Sept. 11 2001 attacks in New York.The carnage in...
Nov 3 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS), the small commercial specialty lines business of ACE Group, has launched its small business ACE CRS Producer Portal. It provides client access through the new online portal, which...
Oct 26 2015 // A legislative panel has asked Arkansas’ insurance commissioner to expand the definition of small businesses so more companies can purchase coverage for their employees through a marketplace.But state Insurance...
Oct 21 2015 // Chicago-based online provider of small business insurance, Insureon, announced $31 million in new funding led by Oak HC/FT, a venture capital fund investing in financial technology companies.Also participating in the round...
Oct 9 2015 // Take Command Health, a Texas-based startup dedicated to helping individuals choose and save on their health insurance, is partnering with Zane Benefits to provide Texas businesses with fewer than 50 employees with health...
Oct 5 2015 // CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could...
Sep 22 2015 // CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could...
Sep 16 2015 // The American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) recently filed updated eligibility criteria, endorsements, loss costs, and rating procedures for its Businessowners Program (BOP). To date, the filing has been...
Sep 14 2015 // The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities & Banking (DISB) announced on Sept. 11 that it has launched city-wide surveys to study the barriers to banking services for District of Columbia residents...
Sep 2 2015 // Nearly 75 percent of small businesses say they don’t have a disaster recovery plan in place. For companies with fewer than 50 employees, just one in five – or 18 percent – have one, according to a new...
Aug 20 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS) announced several new products that expand its suite of specialty commercial products for small businesses.The products are available through ACE Solutions Fast Track, an online small...
Aug 18 2015 // For people working for a small business that doesn’t have a retirement plan, help is on the way.Roughly half of the U.S. states are working to create government-sponsored automatic individual retirement account (IRA)...
Jul 15 2015 // Trust is hard to come by, and the proof for that cliché is now in the pudding – at least in the world of workers’ compensation.While roughly one-in-10 small business owners say they’re concerned that one of...
Jul 9 2015 // The Guarantee Company of North America announced that it has “teamed up with Bullfrog Insurance to provide a faster and simpler way for Canadian small business owners to obtain small business insurance.”They...
Jul 6 2015 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Insuring property along our nation’s coastlines can be either extremely lucrative or laden with risk. Many coastal residents are underinsured—which puts...
Jun 16 2015 // The Hartford has launched a new professional liability insurance offering to help protect small businesses in the event they are sued by a customer claiming a negligent act, or error or omission in the professional...
Jun 2 2015 // Rocklin, CA, June 2, 2015 – Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) is pleased to announce the formation of their Small Business Unit, offering BOP, Excess and Commercial Package products,...
Jun 1 2015 // There is a shift happening in the small business segment and the insurance industry is aware and ready for it. The small businesses that survived the recession are different now, say underwriters. They have had to invest...
May 29 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services, the small commercial specialty lines business of ACE Group, has expanded its specialty commercial products for small businesses, available on a business owners policy (BOP).This new product...