All the headlines from our Small Business Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 11 2013 // Dovetail Insurance announced it is now offering its NetComp workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses in Arkansas, Iowa and Kansas. The product is available through independent agents. Dovetail’s...
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
Sep 26 2013 // Small businesses won’t be able to enroll in new online health insurance marketplaces until Nov. 1 in most U.S. states, the latest delay for the Obama administration’s signature health-care law.Small businesses...
Sep 16 2013 // Restaurant owners Colleen and Tim Holmes were considering opening a third business in a growing upstate New York suburb but decided against it. One factor was the risk from expanding their staff beyond 50 full-time...
Sep 9 2013 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney plans to move ahead with a health insurance exchange for small businesses after federal officials approved regulations to allow the move.The Department of Health and Human...
Sep 9 2013 // Understanding the exposures of commercial clientele is not only important in reducing an agency’s errors and omissions risk; it’s important to the agency’s and carrier’s bottom line, too.Small...
Sep 3 2013 // Small commercial lines insurance customers most value having an insurance agent or broker who completely understands their individual business and helps them assess and manage their risk. The highest-ranked small business...
Aug 16 2013 // A year ago, Teresa Hartnett was on the verge of expanding her small business. The company had hit $1 million in sales, and requests from clients were flowing in. She planned to transition from nearly 30 freelancers to a...
Aug 9 2013 // One casualty of the new health care law may be paid coverage for families of people who work for small businesses.Insurance companies have already warned small business customers that premiums could rise 20 percent or more...
Jul 18 2013 // The Travelers Companies Inc. announced the launch of the Small Business Risk Education (SBRE) program in Chicago to help women and minority small business owners learn about risk management, develop safety risk management...
May 21 2013 // California businesses would be prohibited from firing or retaliating against employees who take advantage of the state’s paid family leave program under a job-protection bill moving through the Legislature.The...
May 13 2013 // The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities.The plan allows Utah to continue to...
Apr 29 2013 // The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. (HSB), part of Munich Re, has launched HSB CyberOne, a new cyber risk insurance coverage for small businesses. The new product expands HSB’s suite of products...
Apr 26 2013 // 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 Nebraska and Tennessee. Availability in...
Apr 5 2013 // An Iowa Senate panel approved a bill that would give a new income tax break to small businesses if they cover part of their employees’ health insurance.The measure passed a Senate Ways and Means subcommittee with...
Mar 22 2013 // An Arkansas House committee has advanced a proposal to establish a new economic development program in the state aimed at driving private investment to small businesses.The House Economic Development Committee unanimously...
Mar 21 2013 // Arkansas lawmakers are considering a proposal to create a new tax credit to spur private investment of small businesses.A bipartisan proposal that would allow the Arkansas Economic Commission to issue tax credits in order...
Mar 21 2013 // Among small business owners in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who were impacted by Superstorm Sandy, some 71 percent of them experienced power outage after Sandy, which led to temporary disruptions in business...
Mar 21 2013 // ACE Commercial Risk Services, the U.S.-based small business insurance division of the ACE Group, has introduced a portal for U.S. brokers working with small- to-mid-sized U.S.-based companies doing business overseas. The...
Mar 11 2013 // About one-third of America’s entrepreneurs are women, many are between the ages of 30 and 49, and 60 percent spent more than six months working on their business idea before forming their entity.More than four out of...