All the headlines from our Small Business Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2013 // While more than half the U.S. small businesses experienced at least one data breach, just one-third of those firms notified individuals that their personal information had been compromised, a new survey...
Feb 28 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...
Feb 25 2013 // Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb and Oklahoma business leaders rolled out their legislative agenda for small businesses and manufacturers on Feb. 12, citing workforce development and sweeping changes to the state’s workers’...
Feb 15 2013 // Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb and Oklahoma business leaders rolled out their legislative agenda for small businesses and manufacturers on Feb. 12, citing workforce development and sweeping changes to the state’s workers’...
Jan 29 2013 // Only 47 percent of small businesses (2-99 employees) in the United States offer benefits to their employees, the lowest level in two decades of research by the life insurance industry research organization LIMRA.According...
Jan 22 2013 // Small businesses may not think they are at risk for cybercrime, but almost 72 percent of the 855 data breaches worldwide analyzed by Verizon’s forensic analysis unit were at companies with 100 employees or less*....
Dec 18 2012 // Beginning January 2013, Foremost will introduce business insurance into its portfolio of products. Foremost is a part of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies. Zurich North America is ending the Zurich Small Business...
Dec 17 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance — part of San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Company — has promoted Anne Doss to the head of its personal and small business insurance division, effective January 2013.Based in...
Dec 12 2012 // Hiscox has partnered with Rocket Lawyer, an online legal service, to provide small businesses with both insurance and legal advice. In addition to Hiscox’s insurance policies for small businesses, Hiscox customers...
Dec 7 2012 // Texas state Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, of Kerrville, has filed legislation to promote small business development in Texas by permanently extending a tax exemption for companies that earn less than $1 million a year.In 2009,...
Dec 6 2012 // Rose Wang looks at her staff of 70 employees and wonders if she’ll have to lay off some of them to comply with the health care law.The owner of Binary Group Inc., an information technology firm based in Alexandria,...
Nov 2 2012 // When it comes to the 2012 presidential election, insurance agents have, as industry insiders like to say, “skin in the game.”In addition to being concerned with how the overall economy will perform under either...
Oct 17 2012 // WorkCompOne, an online insurance destination, has launched a new website focused on serving small business owners.“Main street retailers and professional service providers, such as accounting, legal, engineering and...
Oct 11 2012 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., a managing general underwriter, is adding to its professional liability offerings with a new miscellaneous professional liability (MPL) insurance program for small businesses. Schinnerer...
Oct 11 2012 // EMPLOYERS has entered into an agreement with Paychex Insurance Agency, Inc. to provide small businesses the opportunity to acquire and pay for workers’ compensation insurance when they process payroll through...
Sep 24 2012 // A National Parks Service (NPS) decision to hike their required insurance liability limits by 1,000 percent has some outfitters and guides, as well as their insurance providers, navigating the halls of Congress.The battle...
Sep 6 2012 // A National Parks Service (NPS) decision to hike their required insurance liability limits by 1,000 percent has some outfitters and guides, as well as their insurance providers, navigating the halls of Congress.The battle...
Aug 8 2012 // The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index fell six points to positive 17 in a survey conducted in July that reflects on the third quarter, but one economist who worked on the poll is taking the positive view that...
Aug 6 2012 // Even though real world bullies make the news, it’s trademark bullies and patent trolls that worry businesses.Trademark bullies are typically large firms that seem to go out of their way to keep others from using...
Jul 23 2012 // Even though real world bullies make the news, it’s trademark bullies and patent trolls that worry businesses.Trademark bullies are typically large firms that seem to go out of their way to keep others from using...