Latest Business Insurance Headlines
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Zodiac Insurance Services to Distribute IronPro Small Business Coverages
Jul 16 2012 // IronPro, the U.S. professional and management liability unit of Ironshore, has announced a strategic alliance with Zodiac Insurance Services, Inc. focused on the coverage needs of small business enterprises. Zodiac...
Willis Obtains Commercial Lines Intermediary License from Guernsey
Jul 16 2012 // Willis Group Holdings announced that it has been issued a full commercial lines license to conduct insurance intermediary services in Guernsey under the Insurance Managers and Insurance Intermediaries Bailiwick of Guernsey...
Rey Made Director of Topa’s Commercial Lines
Jul 12 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Co. has made Robert Rey director of underwriting for its commercial property and casualty lines brokerage division. Rey has more than 35 years of commercial lines underwriting and...
GMI Adds Plaza Insurance to Business Auto Carrier List
Jul 12 2012 // GMI Insurance has expanded its business auto program with the addition of Plaza Insurance Co., an admitted carrier in 47 jurisdictions. Eligible accounts for GMI’s business auto program include automobile fleets that...
Higginbotham Expands Dallas and Houston Business Insurance Staff
Jul 11 2012 // Dallas-based independent insurance firm, Higginbotham, hired broker and sales producer Byron E. Johnson as executive vice president within its commercial property and casualty division. Johnson and his account service team...
With Supreme Court Ruling In, Employers Turn to Healthcare Law’s Requirements: Mercer
Jul 10 2012 // The majority of employers in a recent survey said they had been waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision before developing a strategy to respond to the law’s provisions slated to go into effect in 2014 and...
Employers Fighting the Rising Cost of Healthcare Turn to Holistic Benefit Planning as a Solution
Jul 2 2012 // The nation’s largest employers don’t anticipate finding cost-relief any time soon when it comes to health and benefits coverage. But they have been listening more and waking up to ideas from their brokers that...
The Hartford Enhances Sales Support For Small Business Benefit Brokers
Jun 27 2012 // A new team at The Hartford is offering specialized services for benefits brokers, in order to meet the changing needs of small business owners and their employees. The Hartford recently launched a small business center...
North Carolina Passes Law Targeting Employers Without Workers’ Comp
Jun 25 2012 // North Carolina business owners may find it harder to escape having workers’ compensation coverage after state lawmakers approved a bill closing a legal loophole that had resulted in tens of thousands of employers...
UK MGA’s Advised on Changes in Employers Liability, Public Liability Claims
Jun 22 2012 // Impending changes in UK laws governing claims for Employers Liability (EL) and Public Liability (PL) should be a priority membersof the UK’s Managing General Agents’ Association were told at a recent briefing...
Chartis Increases Commercial Property Per-Risk Capacity
Jun 18 2012 // Chartis has increased its commercial property per-risk capacity to $1.5 billion on a worldwide basis. This level of capacity had previously been available to Chartis’ North American domiciled clients, underwritten by...
Commercial Insurance Prices Continue to Rise: Towers Watson
Jun 18 2012 // Commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by nearly 5 percent during the first quarter of 2012, the fifth consecutive quarter that prices rose. In addition, commercial insurers’ loss ratios stabilized for...
Small Business Owners Dismiss Risk of Data Breach: Survey
Jun 14 2012 // As the number of data breaches involving smaller businesses continues to grow, a new survey by The Hartford finds 85 percent of small business owners believe a data breach is unlikely, and many are not implementing simple...
Commercial Insurance Prices Continue to Rise: Towers Watson
Jun 11 2012 // Commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by nearly five percent during the first quarter of 2012, the fifth consecutive quarter that prices rose. In addition, commercial insurers’ loss ratios stabilized for...
In the Workplace, What Do Millennials Want?
Jun 11 2012 // There’s a lot of talk in property/casualty insurance circles these days about how the industry is going to replace the huge wave of baby boomers that are beginning to retire and will continue to do so into the next...
Atlas Expands Commercial Auto Insurance Underwriting to Utah
Jun 7 2012 // Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc.has started selling its core commercial automobile insurance products in Utah, becoming the 31st state where Atlas is actively underwriting. Atlas’ insurance subsidiaries, American...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Extends Private Employer Rate Cut
Jun 5 2012 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) in late May announced an extension of the $65 million in rate cuts enacted last year for Ohio’s private sector employers to the 2013 policy year that begins July...
Wyoming Pushes Workplace Safety With New Hire
Jun 4 2012 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate. Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as New...
Indiana Finds Assurant Subsidiaries Overcharged Small Businesses
May 29 2012 // Three subsidiaries of Assurant Health will provide refunds to small group health insurance policyholders that Indiana insurance regulators say the companies overcharged. Indiana Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson...
Wyoming Pushes Workplace Safety With New Hire
May 25 2012 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced Wednesday the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate. Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as...
