Latest Business Insurance Headlines

All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Commercial Property, Liability, Crime

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has updated its Customarq Classic property policy. Chubb’s Customarq Classic offers U.S. and Canadian commercial customers a choice of monoline property...

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Commercial Property, Liability, Crime

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has updated its Customarq Classic property policy. Chubb’s Customarq Classic offers U.S. and Canadian commercial customers a choice of monoline property insurance...

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Commercial Rates Going Down, Reinsurance Rates Holding Firm

Mar 8 2004 // As Costello famously asked Abbott, “Who’s on first?” A new report released by leading independent insurance intermediary Benfield concludes that despite “ample capacity and signs of resurgent...

Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses

Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...

MINICO INC. LAUNCHES NEW COMMERCIAL INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM:

Mar 8 2004 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based MiniCo Inc. has announced the successful implementation of Renaissance, a new browser-based commercial insurance technology system designed to improve customer service throughout the...

Commercial Property, Liability, Crime

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has updated its Customarq Classic property policy. Chubb’s Customarq Classic offers U.S. and Canadian commercial customers a choice of monoline property...

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Small Businesses are Big Business

Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were 5,652,544 firms actively doing business in the U.S. in 2001, the latest available totals. This doesn’t count the millions of people who are self-employed. 5,036,845 of...

Workers’ Comp Chief Concern of Most Calif. Small Business Owners

Mar 8 2004 // While the state’s economic recovery has not yet reached every part of the business spectrum, 72 percent of California small business owners polled are expecting 2004 to be an overall better year than 2003, according...

Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses

Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...

Progressive Offers Commercial Auto in Dakotas

Mar 1 2004 // The Mayfield Village, Ohio-based Progressive group of insurance companies, the country’s number one monoline commercial auto insurer, has announced plans to start selling its commercial auto product in both North and...

ClearComp Seminars Offer Employers Strategies for Dealing with Calif.’s Workers’ Comp Crisis

Feb 25 2004 // ClearComp, an employer advocate based in Woodland Hills, California, is sponsoring a series of seminars designed specifically to address the needs of California’s beleaguered employers. Each of these Giant Seminars,...

Superior Access’ New Admitted Carrier Offering Mid-Market BOP

Feb 24 2004 // Richard Swoy, chairman of Irvine, Calif.-based Superior Access Insurance Services Inc., announced that SAIS added an “A (excellent)” rated admitted carriers exclusively for SAIS member agents and brokers...

Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses

Feb 23 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...

RIMS: Commercial Rates Going Down; Benfield: Reinsurance Rates Holding

Feb 23 2004 // As Abbott and Costello famously observed, “Who’s on First?” A new report from independent insurance intermediary Benfield concludes that despite “ample capacity and signs of resurgent competition,...

RIMS: Commercial Rates Going Down; Benfield: Reinsurance Rates Holding

Feb 23 2004 // As Abbott and Costello famously observed, “Who’s on First?” A new report from independent insurance intermediary Benfield concludes that despite “ample capacity and signs of resurgent competition,...

Alarcón Says Industry Unwilling to Guarantee Savings Passed on to Employers

Feb 19 2004 // Senator Richard Alarcón (D-Van Nuys) said “the refusal of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Ratings Bureau (WCIRB) to put a figure on the potential savings of the governor’s reform package signals the...

MiniCo Inc. Launches New Commercial Insurance Technology System

Feb 13 2004 // Phoenix-based MiniCo Inc. has announced the successful implementation of Renaissance, a new browser-based commercial insurance technology system designed to improve customer service throughout the organization’s...