All the headlines from our Small Business Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2004 // The small business unit of Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA hopes to hit $1 billion in premium volume at the end of 2005 by targeting Main Street businesses with more customized policy forms and a stripped-down...
Jan 6 2004 // Zurich North America (www.zurichna.com) announced the launch of a new web-based service that provides small business insurance agents and their customers with industry-specific risk engineering support.Called Virtual...
Jan 2 2004 // In a move to combat California’s out-of-control workers compensation system, the Small Business Action Committee (SBAC) announced that it has filed an initiative to reportedly reduce the cost of the system by as much...
Nov 25 2003 // Seattle-based Safeco Business Insurance (SBI) has expanded its online sales platform to make it faster and easier for agents to sell workers compensation insurance to small businesses.The update means agents can go online...
Nov 20 2003 // Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA recently announced that Paul Nhem and Tom Gill will become partnering managers of its dedicated small business program unit. Nhem and Gill will partner with agencies to generate and...
Nov 17 2003 // Chicago-based insurer CNA Financial Corp. named Henry Pippins Jr. as senior vice president of its Small Business for Standard Lines unit, an $800 million business operation. Pippins previously served as vice president of...
Nov 3 2003 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based insurer Zurich North America, announced the addition of a host of new features to its popular eZSB Web site for Zurich Small Business agents designed to provide new capabilities and improved...
Oct 31 2003 // As part of The St. Paul Companies’ continued expansion into the small business insurance marketplace, the company announced recently the opening of a Commercial Service Center for its small business customers and...
Oct 22 2003 // A new nationwide survey by Safeco Corp. found most small-business owners are ill-prepared to recover costs if disaster strikes, such as company’s payroll, operating expenses and profits, and aren’t...
Oct 20 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar has available a market for small business owners policy. Endorsements—Many extensions of coverage including business income on an actual loss sustained, accounts receivable, valuable...
Oct 6 2003 // Like a fine wine, BOPs seem to be getting better with age. Long the marketplace standard of property and liability insurance for small businesses, BOPs, known more formally as Business Owners Package policies, have...
Oct 6 2003 // Like a fine wine, BOPs seem to be getting better with age. Long the marketplace standard of property and liability insurance for small businesses, BOPs, known more formally as Business Owners Package policies, have...
Aug 12 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), in conjunction with individual insurers and OSHA, is hosting a workshop in Illinois focusing on workplace safety for small businesses. “Safety at Work I: Risk...
Jul 30 2003 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company has integrated Farm & Ranch management into its Small Business operations, which completes a companywide realignment of its agricultural risks.“This management integration...
Jul 29 2003 // Alpharetta, Ga.- based MyBenefitSource (MBS), a provider of integrated payroll, benefits and benefits administration services, announced it entered into an alliance with Atlanta-based Digital Insurance Inc., to address...
Jul 23 2003 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich North America has announced enhancements to the automobile risk processing, risk processing tools and documents sections of its eZSB website for agents that write business for small...
Jul 18 2003 // Zurich North America announced the launch of the FinanceSuite(tm) product on the Business Finance Center website.The Business Finance Center is an online commercial lending marketplace where the Zurich network of...
Jun 6 2003 // Although they have the most at stake, small businesses are less prepared than larger companies to withstand a natural disaster, according to a recent national survey of small and mid-sized businesses by The Hartford...
May 30 2003 // Chicago-based CNA says it is creating opportunities for agents in Small Business with its people, services, technology, broad appetite, underwriting excellence, comprehensive products and programs, and targeted classes for...
May 27 2003 // This month marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of E.G. Bowman Company, Inc. by Ernesta G. Procope, who set up her storefront insurance agency in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in 1953.The...