Latest Business Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Uncertainty on Insurance Hits NYC Commercial Property Market
Nov 20 2001 // Lower Manhattan has suffered a catastrophic decline in tenants seeking office space since the destruction of the World Trade Center. According to a study by Newmark & Company published in the New York Times there are...
Employers Realize Proper EPL Coverage is Part of Successful Business Equation
Nov 12 2001 // Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms. Carrie...
Employers Realize Proper EPL Coverage is Part of Successful Business Equation
Nov 5 2001 // Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms. Carrie...
Seattle-Area Commercial Insurance Agents, Brokers to Gather to Learn about Risks
Nov 2 2001 // Local commercial insurance agents and brokers will gather Nov. 6 in Seattle to learn about the expanding scope and impact of e-commerce risks affecting businesses today, and how companies can identify e-risk exposures and...
Berkley Corp. Reports Sept. 11 After-Tax Losses At $23M; Eliminates 2 Business Lines October 30, 20
Oct 30 2001 // W. R. Berkley Corporation reported that operating income, excluding losses related to the Sept. 11 event, was $11 million, or 36 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $9 million, or...
Commercial Insurance Market Index Shows Evidence of Hardening Market
Oct 26 2001 // According to the recently released third-quarter Commercial Insurance Market Index — reflecting market observations of the largest commercial insurance brokers across the nation — commercial insurance premium...
Number of Calif. Workplace Deaths on the Decrease
Oct 26 2001 // The downward trend continued last year: the number of California workers killed on the job was the lowest since 1992 when the Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR)...
Commercial Insurance Modernization Law in Effect in Missouri
Oct 19 2001 // A new law modernizing regulation of commercial insurance, now in effect in Missouri, will stimulate competition by eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy. The new law, enacted as Senate Bill 186, specifies that all commercial...
AXA, RSA To Raise Commercial Property Rates
Oct 17 2001 // France’s AXA and Britain’s Royal & Sun Alliance both announced that there would be large increases in their premium rates on commercial property coverage in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the...
CGNU Seeks to Sell French Commercial Lines Unit
Oct 10 2001 // In a move to further streamline its European operations, the U.K.’s CGNU announced that is seeking a buyer for its French unit, CGU Courtage, the country’s third largest commercial lines insurer, which deals...
American Modern Stops Writing Commercial Liability, Affirms Commitment to Specialty Markets
Sep 26 2001 // American Modern Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Midland Company and a provider of manufactured housing specialty insurance products and services, has ceased offering commercial liability products for...
The Midland Company to Cease Offering Commercial Liability Coverage
Sep 20 2001 // The Midland Company, a provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced that American Modern Insurance Group, its insurance subsidiary, will cease offering the commercial liability coverages associated with...
Midland Co. Announces American Modern to Cease Commercial Liability
Sep 19 2001 // The Midland Company, a highly focused provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced that American Modern Insurance Group, its insurance subsidiary, will cease offering the commercial liability coverages...
Majority of U.S. Businesses Report Workplace Safety Pays Off
Aug 31 2001 // Ninety-five percent of business executives report that workplace safety has a positive impact on a company’s financial performance, according to the findings of “The Executive Survey of Workplace Safety”...
Attempts at Workers’ Comp Reform Could Hurt Agents, Small Business
Aug 30 2001 // According to Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), a workers’ compensation bill moving its way through the California Legislature doesn’t go far enough in attempts to reduce costs to reform the...
Silver Plume Introduces Sage Reference Tool for Commercial P&C Agents
Aug 22 2001 // Insurance Reference Systems Inc. (Silver Plume), an AMS company, announced the introduction of Sage, a web-based, intelligent research tool that uses an insurance-specific, Internet-style engine to search its library of...
Travelers to Resume Writing New Commercial Auto and Umbrella Business in Ohio
Aug 2 2001 // Travelers Insurance announced it will re-enter the Ohio insurance marketplace for new commercial auto and umbrella business with the enactment of the “Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Availability Act of...
UNISYS to Offer Commercial Insurers Risk
Jul 31 2001 // Unisys Corporation announced that it has established an Internet-based Risk Trading Exchange for the global insurance/reinsurance marketplace. Enabling all market players to access and transact numerous types and classes...
Marsh, AT&T Unveil E-Business Risk Solution
Jul 12 2001 // Companies that use AT&T’s Internet Data Centers and managed web hosting services are eligible for a new benefit — e-business insurance from Marsh Inc. that rewards AT&T enterprise hosting customers...
AXA Acquires Independent’s Small Business Website
Jul 5 2001 // AXA Insurance, the French giant’s U.K. unit, has acquired Independent Insurance’s small business website from the company’s liquidators. The site, www.business-risk.com, employs 17 people, who will be...
