All the headlines from our Small Business Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2014 // Underserved populations and market niches are ripe with potential for insurance innovators who are willing to take on the challenge of creating opportunities in areas that may seem unprofitable at first glance, says the...
Nov 13 2014 // Online small business insurance provider AssureStart is now open for business in six additional states: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Nebraska and North Carolina.Seattle-based AssureStart sells business property and...
Nov 2 2014 // U.S. small businesses are dropping health insurance for their workers, as Obamacare lets them send employees to new marketplaces where they can often get subsidies from the government to buy coverage.WellPoint Inc.’s...
Oct 24 2014 // A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that following Superstorm Sandy, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) did not meet its timeliness goal for processing business loan...
Sep 16 2014 // Small business insurer EMPLOYERS has launched Coventry/NT24, a 24-hour hotline staffed by registered nurses who provide medical guidance over the phone for work-related injuries or illnesses. The service is available to...
Sep 15 2014 // At a recent “Hacker Lab” event, “white hat” hackers revealed how cybercriminals work — and what businesses can do to protect themselves. The multimedia presentation used a simulated small business...
Sep 12 2014 // A nonprofit created by the Arkansas legislature has decided to delay establishing a state-run health insurance exchange until 2016 to avoid a rush to build the technology system for it.The Arkansas Health Insurance...
Sep 8 2014 // AssureStart, the online small business insurance provider, is now open for business in Nevada, New York, Ohio and South Carolina. AssureStart sells business property and general liability insurance on the Internet...
Aug 15 2014 // Acadia Insurance, a W. R. Berkley Co., has launched a new insurance policy for small businesses in Maine and New Hampshire called AcadiaAdvantage. The product is expected to be available in additional states this...
Aug 11 2014 // Insurers writing predominantly personal lines of insurance do a better job in satisfying their small business customers than insurers focused more on commercial lines, a new survey contends.According to the J.D. Power 2014...
Jun 27 2014 // If the battle over the U.S. Export-Import Bank is Washington’s latest political tempest, then Don Nelson from Bakersfield, California is aiming at the eye of the storm.Nelson’s small oilfield equipment company...
Jun 25 2014 // Oliver TraviesoCNA Financial Corporation has promoted Oliver Travieso to the position of small business sales manager for the Southeast zone. In this role, Travieso will have primary responsibility for managing the...
Jun 20 2014 // AssureStart, the technology startup that sells small business insurance coverage on the internet, has opened for business in Colorado, Missouri and Oregon with plans to expand into additional states this year. AssureStart...
Jun 20 2014 // ANV Holdings BV, a Dutch specialty insurance business, has opened a U.S. managing general underwriter focused on communications and data security risks for “Main Street” U.S. businesses.Leib Dodell, a veteran...
Jun 9 2014 // New Hampshire businesses aren’t happy with the latest delay in the small group health insurance market created by the Affordable Care Act, but some are more understanding than others.Companies have been able to...
May 28 2014 // FirstComp, a division of Markel Service, Inc., has launched a new small business owner policy, FirstComp EssentialBOP, for FirstComp-appointed independent agents writing business in Hawaii. The BOP product is also...
May 19 2014 // Liberty Mutual Insurance is now offering its small business customers data compromise and CyberOne endorsements for its BOP product available on the company’s eCLIQ policy administration platform. The data compromise...
May 19 2014 // Small businesses in eight New Mexico counties are eligible for federal disaster loans due to the drought.The U.S. Small Business Administration made the announcement in April, saying the loans can help offset economic...
May 12 2014 // Restaurants and storefronts are buzzing again in West Virginia’s capital city of Charleston, but many still haven’t filled a financial hole after chemicals sullied their running water and forced them to close...
May 5 2014 // When suburban New York delicatessen owner P.J. Whelan heard the findings of a Federal Reserve Bank of New York poll released on April 21 regarding Superstorm Sandy’s effect on small businesses, he began nodding in...