Latest Business Insurance Headlines

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Employers Insurance Co. of Nevada Re-elects Sande, McKinney-James to Board

May 28 2004 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada (EICN) has announced the re-election of two members of the company’s Board of Directors. John Sande and Rose McKinney-James were re-elected to additional three-year terms as...

AIG Small Business Introduces New Online Services for Insurance Brokers and Agents

May 27 2004 // AIG Small Business, a unit of the property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group, announced the launch of “AIG eDelivery(SM),” a new submission status and policy retrieval system...

Texas Approves Additional ISO Commercial Auto Tools

May 21 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to make filings immediately using Insurance Services Office Inc.‘s (ISO) commercial auto advisory information. According to ISO, its advisory...

N.Y. Assembly Committee Forced to Vote on ‘Scaffold Law’ Reform Sought by Employers and Insurers

May 21 2004 // Chances there will be a vote on a key New York tort reform bill have improved after the Democratic sponsor of the bill has made a procedural move that will prompt the Assembly Labor Committee to consider his bill to reform...

U.S. House Passes OSHA Changes for Employers

May 20 2004 // Employers could get more time to challenge citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and more companies could recoup lawyers’ fees under a set of House bills that would make employer-friendly...

RIMS Report: Commercial Insurance Buyers Look Forward to Lower Prices

May 17 2004 // As thousands of risk management professionals, carrier executives, vendors and industry watchers gathered at the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s annual conference in San Diego, last month, there was only one...

Acordia’s Salt Lake City Office Names Luckey Commercial Lines Producer

May 13 2004 // Acordia has named Jean Luckey Commercial Lines Producer in Acordia’s Salt Lake City, Utah office. Luckey is responsible for generating new commercial business, as well as servicing and maintaining existing...

Crater to Head Hanover’ s N.Y.-N.J. Commercial Lines

May 11 2004 // The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies announced that Alan Crater has been named regional president of their downstate New York and New Jersey commercial lines divisions, effective immediately. Crater comes to...

Ohio DOI Announces Small Business Hotline

May 10 2004 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that it has established a toll-free hotline to assist the state’s small business owners with questions about health, business automobile, property and professional liability...

W. Va. WCC Files Injunctions Against Pair of State Employers in Default

May 4 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. The injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...

W. Va. WCC Files Injunctions Against Trio of State Employers

May 3 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against three state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. The injunctions were filed in Kanawha...

Congress Urged to Make Workplace Deaths Due to Employer Negligence a Felony

Apr 29 2004 // A man whose son was killed 11 years ago in a gruesome workplace accident in Florida urged Congress this week to give prosecutors the threat of felony convictions against employers whose neglect for federal safety rules...

Philadelphia Insurance Agents Get Real Time Commercial Auto Services

Apr 29 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (NASDAQ: PHLY) has launched AutoIDweb, a new service on its AccessPHLY Agent Web Portal that provides agents access to their commercial auto policies with the ability to add/delete vehicles...

W. Va. WCC Files Injunctions Against Pair of Employers

Apr 28 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. The injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...

Study Shows Commercial Property, GL Rates Falling

Apr 21 2004 // The costs for two major commercial lines insurance fell in the first quarter of 2004, according to a RIMS Benchmark Survey. In the first quarter of 2004, premium prices for property insurance fell by about 1.5 percent....

Aon Reports US Commercial Property Rates Drop 10%

Apr 20 2004 // A study by Aon, released to coincide with the RIMS conference in San Diego, has determined that an average reduction of around 10 percent has occurred in U.S. Commercial property rates. Willis and the CIAB also issued...

OHIO BUREAU SWEEPS 200 EMPLOYERS FOR COMP COVER:

Apr 19 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently concluded a random sweep of 200 employers in the Toledo area to determine whether they have active workers’ compensation coverage, collecting $110,412 in...

Workers’ Compensation – Small- to Mid-Size Employer

Apr 19 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Insurex Inc. and Frontier General announce the release of a new workers’ compensation product in California with ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA. The new product launched is called ACE...

Mass. Streamlines and Equalizes Agents’ Access to CAR’s Commercial Auto High Risk Operation

Apr 17 2004 // The Massachusetts auto insurance industry is streamlining the way it handles high risk commercial auto risks by reducing the number of servicing carriers involved in handling them and equalizing access to the residual...

Calif. Commissioner Calls for Workers’ Comp Reform Savings to be Passed Through to Employers

Apr 16 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released the following statement in regards to the recent agreement by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature for a workers’ compensation reform...