Latest Business Insurance Headlines
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Maritzen to Head New Endurance U.S. Commercial Property Operation
Jul 8 2014 // Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that Mark Maritzen has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Property within its U.S. Insurance operation. He has nearly twenty...
Endurance Launches U.S. Commercial Property Retail Division
Jul 8 2014 // Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that Mark Maritzen has joined the company as executive vice president and head of commercial property within its U.S. Insurance operation. Maritzen will be responsible for...
ACE to Acquire Brazil’s Commercial P&C Insurer Itaú Seguros
Jul 7 2014 // ACE Limited announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the large corporate property and casualty (P&C) business of Itaú Seguros, S.A. from Itaú Unibanco S.A. for approximately $685 million. ACE...
The PPACA: What Employers Don’t Understand About Emerging Exposures
Jul 7 2014 // The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the emerging regulatory environment present difficult challenges to employers. As employers, regulators, administrators and courts begin to struggle with...
Supreme Court to Decide UPS Workplace Pregnancy Accommodation Dispute
Jul 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court will use a case involving United Parcel Service Inc. to decide whether pregnant employees can be denied accommodations such as light duty when other workers with disabilities receive them. The court...
Small Businesses Lobby for Export-Import Bank
Jun 27 2014 // If the battle over the U.S. Export-Import Bank is Washington’s latest political tempest, then Don Nelson from Bakersfield, California is aiming at the eye of the storm. Nelson’s small oilfield equipment company...
Another Climate Report Outlines Business Risks, Insurance Pitfalls
Jun 26 2014 // “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change to the United States,” a report on climate change and how it will affect businesses, offers a variety of information on how a changing world will impact...
CNA Promotes Travieso to Small Business Sales Manager for Southeast Zone
Jun 25 2014 // Oliver TraviesoCNA Financial Corporation has promoted Oliver Travieso to the position of small business sales manager for the Southeast zone. In this role, Travieso will have primary responsibility for managing the...
Hong Kong Could Hold Employers Liable for Harassment by Passengers
Jun 25 2014 // A Hong Kong legislator backing a bill to help protect flight attendants from sexual harassment by passengers will seek to add language making employers liable for enforcing it. “Without that liability, the law will...
Business Risk Partners Hires Professional Liability Underwriter in Connecticut
Jun 23 2014 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, has appointed Erinn Coletti as professional liability underwriter. Previously, Coletti served as a specialty underwriter at The Hanover Insurance...
AssureStart Expands Online Small Business Insurance Sales to Three More States
Jun 20 2014 // AssureStart, the technology startup that sells small business insurance coverage on the internet, has opened for business in Colorado, Missouri and Oregon with plans to expand into additional states this year. AssureStart...
ANV Opens Cyber/Media MGU for U.S. Small Business with James River
Jun 20 2014 // ANV Holdings BV, a Dutch specialty insurance business, has opened a U.S. managing general underwriter focused on communications and data security risks for “Main Street” U.S. businesses. Leib Dodell, a veteran...
AIG Launches Global Commercial Property Coverage for Mid-Market
Jun 18 2014 // The American International Group, Inc. (AIG) insurers have launched a new line of multinational commercial property products and services, including expanded coverage, loss prevention engineering, and risk management...
Top Loss Leaders in the Oil Patch? Commercial Auto, Workers’ Comp
Jun 18 2014 // There’s no doubt that new advancements in the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are driving the current production boom in the oil patch. The technique, which is used to retrieve oil and gas reservoirs...
Ironshore Canada Enters Commercial Property Market for Sector Specific Risks
Jun 17 2014 // Bermuda-based Ironshore Canada has announced its entry into the Commercial Property Market with capacity that enhances its existing suite of specialty products available in the Canadian region. “Ironshore Canada has...
Amazon Workplace Faces Safety Scrutiny After 2 Deaths
Jun 16 2014 // Amazon.com Inc.’s labor issues are growing at its sprawling network of fulfillment centers, where it ships everything from books to big-screen televisions. The U.S. Department of Labor said last week that it’s...
Argo Surety, SureTec Launch Mid-Market Surety Program
Jun 11 2014 // Argo Surety, together with SureTec Financial Corp., is now providing expanded combined capacity for the middle market contract surety segment. Through the new program, Argo Surety and SureTec can extend up to $50 million...
Commercial Lines Prices Up Only 4% in Q1: Towers Watson
Jun 10 2014 // Commercial insurance prices increased by 4 percent in aggregate during the first quarter of 2014, marking the lowest level of growth since fourth-quarter 2011, according to a new survey by Towers Watson. The increase is a...
Willis Launches UK’s 1st Shariah Compliant Commercial Property Insurance
Jun 10 2014 // Willis Group Holdings announced that in “response to growing demand from property investors for insurance cover that is compliant with Islamic law it has launched the UK’s first Shariah compliant commercial...
The Hartford Names Carano Commercial Markets Loss Control VP
Jun 5 2014 // The Hartford has appointed Carl J. Carano vice president of loss control for the company’s Commercial Markets division. Carano will lead development of a risk management services for commercial insurance customers....
