Latest Business Insurance Headlines
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Small Businesses Lose $200K to Fraud, Survey Reports
Aug 12 2008 // U.S. organizations lose an estimated 7 percent of their annual revenues to fraud – but damages are more among small businesses, according to a new study. The median loss suffered by organizations with fewer than 100...
Bell Joins State Auto Middle Markets in Austin Office
Aug 4 2008 // State Auto Middle Markets has added Leticia Bell to its Austin team. Bell will be responsible for executing all underwriting services for SAMMI, including policy design, issuance and delivery of services to Middle...
Road Danger: Thousands of Medically Unfit Commercial Drivers Still Trucking on U.S. Roads
Aug 4 2008 // Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States carry commercial driver’s licenses despite also qualifying for full federal disability payments, and some of those drivers have suffered...
How to Become the Local Employer of Choice
Aug 4 2008 // Workers’ Comp Expert Advises Employers on Surviving Today’s Demographics About two-thirds of companies do no planning for workforce issues at all. Quickly rising and about to strike, the tidal wave of...
How to Become the Local Employer of Choice
Aug 4 2008 // Workers’ Comp Expert Advises Employers on Surviving Today’s Demographics About two-thirds of companies do no planning for workforce issues at all. Quickly rising and about to strike, the tidal wave of...
CustomPak from Harleysville Targets Small, Middle Market Firms
Jul 31 2008 // Harleysville Insurance Co.’s CustomPak, its flagship product of its recently launched StarAdvantage Series, supports seven market segments that encompass nearly 500 business classes. Market segments targeted for...
Small Business Organization Honors California Commissioner
Jul 25 2008 // Small Business California, a non-partisan business advocacy organization, honored California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and seven other Californians for having gone the extra mile to assist small businesses in...
Monahan Joins Bollinger’s Commercial Lines Division
Jul 24 2008 // Susan L. Monahan has joined New Jersey insurance brokerage Bollinger as executive vice president in the Commercial Lines Division. She will be responsible for the commercial lines operations in Bollinger’s Short...
How to Become the Local Employer of Choice
Jul 21 2008 // About two-thirds of companies do no planning for workforce issues at all. Quickly rising and about to strike, the tidal wave of demographic pressure in the U.S. is a formidable threat to the health of American business....
Credit Seen Drying Up for Main Street Small Businesses
Jul 21 2008 // As losses mount at American banks and the pain of the credit crisis spreads from housing and finance to the broader economy, many small companies complain it is increasingly difficult to obtain loans. Tighter credit could...
Employers Holdings Schedules Q2 Earnings Release
Jul 17 2008 // Employers Holdings Inc., a provider of workers’ compensation insurance to small, U.S. businesses based in Reno, Nev., will review the company’s second quarter 2008 financial results during a conference call and...
Howard Returns to Dean & Draper as Commercial Lines Manager
Jul 15 2008 // Houston-based Dean & Draper Insurance Agency LLP announced that Greg Howard has returned to the firm as Commercial Lines Marketing manager. Howard has more than 15 years experience in the insurance field and has both...
Wausau Survey: Employers Stay Level Headed Despite Recession Worries
Jul 11 2008 // Although a U.S. economic recession would not be good news overall for employers, most don’t believe a recession would drive up workers’ compensation claims, according to a new survey of financial executives by...
Tennessee Safety Officials to Investigate Fatal Workplace Accident
Jul 10 2008 // A fall from a platform area at Alstom Power Inc. in Chattanooga, Tennessee killed a 48-year-old man. Police said investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the fall from a height of more than 30 feet on July...
Washington Raises Workers’ Comp Benefits, Pays Dividend to Employers
Jul 9 2008 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation wage-replacement or pension benefits will receive a 5.018 percent cost-of-living increase, according to the state Department of Labor and Industries...
LWCC Launches Web Site Dedicated to Workplace Safety
Jun 30 2008 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has launched a new stand-alone Web site, www.saferplacetowork.com, which provides centralized safety information for both employers and employees. The company said...
New Jersey Workers’ Comp Reforms Target Payments, Employer Scofflaws
Jun 25 2008 // New Jersey lawmakers have approved a number of major changes to the Garden State’s workers’ compensation insurance system. The reforms comprise a package of six bills passed earlier this week by the Assembly...
Report: Workplace Injuries Unreported
Jun 24 2008 // A congressional report found two out of three work-related illnesses and injuries may be going unreported, and called into question federal regulators’ claims that workplace problems are declining. The House...
Insurance Agents Advised to Learn from Professional Employer Organizations
Jun 24 2008 // As insurance agents and brokers search for ways to respond to the continuing soft market, they would be wise to follow the example of professional employer organizations (PEOs) that are winning over small and mid-sized...
New York Workers’ Comp Board Targets Workplace Safety for Teens
Jun 17 2008 // The New York Workers’ Compensation Board said it will expand a program to promote job safety for teenage workers. The program is a partnership with the Department of Labor where the board refers to the department...
