Latest Business Insurance Headlines
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Skuld Names Kohmann as Head of Oslo Business Unit as Urdal Retires
Jun 30 2017 // Marine insurance provider Skuld announced that Kristoffer Kohmann is the new head of Skuld Oslo 2, one of its Oslo business units. Kohmann will succeed Ketil Urdal who, after 16 years with Skuld and a career spanning 20...
Chubb Names Sherman to Lead North America Management Liability Business Unit
Jun 27 2017 // Chubb has appointed Leigh Anne Sherman to lead its Private/Not-For-Profit Management Liability business within the North America Financial Lines division. Sherman will have overall responsibility for leading the...
XL Catlin, McGowan Companies to Offer Coverage for Workplace Violence
Jun 27 2017 // XL Catlin has entered into an exclusive underwriting agreement with The McGowan Companies to provide workplace violence insurance to U.S. businesses. Nearly two million American workers are victims of workplace violence...
Investigation Solutions Assists in $32 Million Employer Fraud Case
Jun 21 2017 // San Diego, CA, June 21, 2017- Investigation Solutions, Inc. (ISI) worked alongside the California Department of Insurance in a $32 million workers’ compensation fraud case that resulted in an arrest earlier this...
Trump Reverses Obama Stand, Supports Employers Requiring Class Action Waivers
Jun 19 2017 // The Trump administration on Friday sided with employers in a Supreme Court case over the rights of workers to bring class action lawsuits against companies, court documents showed. Reversing a position staked out earlier...
Orchid Underwriters Expands Commercial Lines into Alabama, Mississippi
Jun 19 2017 // Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of catastrophic coastal insurance, announced that it expanded its Commercial Lines business to two new states, Alabama and Mississippi. The two new states join New...
Survey of Agents Reveals Underwriting Disconnect in Commercial Lines
Jun 19 2017 // Independent agents want to talk about underwriting, and they’re urging their carriers to listen. Preliminary results from the 2017 Channel Harvest Research survey indicate agents want to see companies put greater...
New Aon Professional Liability Coverage Available for 300-Plus Small Business Classes
Jun 16 2017 // Aon Affinity, the affinity business of Aon plc, has launched Aon Professional Liability Plus, a nationwide program that provides malpractice insurance to more than 300 classes of traditionally hard-to-place small...
Billings Named VP, Predictive Analytics at Midwest Employers Casualty
Jun 16 2017 // Midwest Employers Casualty has promoted Brian Billings to vice president of Predictive Analytics. As the Midwest Employers Casualty strategy evolved from data acquisition to leveraging data assets, Billings led the effort...
Hub Northeast Promotes Schreiber to President of Commercial Lines
Jun 16 2017 // Hub International Northeast (Hub Northeast), a subsidiary of Hub International Limited (Hub), has promoted senior vice president and chief sales officer (CSO), Ken Schreiber, to president of commercial lines. In this new...
Startup Decisely: Insurtech ‘For Brokers, By Brokers’ Targets Small Business Benefits
Jun 16 2017 // Some see insurtech as the enemy. Others see it as a sign of things to come. Then there’s EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, which is clearly embracing the insurtech craze while soliciting brokers to join...
British Insurer Aviva to Launch Small Business Cyber Product
Jun 16 2017 // British insurer Aviva plans to launch a new product to cover small and medium-sized businesses against cyber attacks later this year as part of an expansion of its specialist insurance division, its chief executive for UK...
QBE, Arrowhead Partner on Small Commercial Insurance Program
Jun 8 2017 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency has been selected as the program administrator for QBE North America’s small commercial insurance portfolio, consisting of property and casualty business accounts under $100,000 in...
Trump Labor Department Nixes Obama’s ‘Joint Employer’ Standard
Jun 8 2017 // The U.S. Labor Department on Wednesday said it was rescinding the Obama administration’s standard for determining when companies are “joint employers” of contract and franchise workers, in the...
S&P Revises AIG Outlook to Negative Citing Commercial Lines Challenges
Jun 7 2017 // Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has revised its rating outlook to negative from stable for American International Group (AIG). The move came despite AIG recently hiring a new CEO, Brian Duperreault. At the same...
U.S. Facing Rise in Workplace Homicides
Jun 7 2017 // Fatal workplace shootings, like the one Monday in Orlando, Florida, are ticking upward in the United States, government statistics show. Revenge against an employer, romantic partner or co-workers often is the motive,...
Employers in Nevada Brings on West Bend’s Grinna as Vice President
Jun 6 2017 // Reno Nev.-based Employers has named Scott R. Grinna as vice president of enterprise program management. Grinna has experience in IT and program management with 25 years in the IT industry. Grinna joins Employers from West...
Lawmakers Ask Supreme Court to Weigh Veterans’ vs. Employers’ Rights in Workplace
Jun 5 2017 // Nineteen lawmakers are testing their luck at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up a case on whether military reservists’ unfair dismissal claims can be forced into arbitration by their civilian...
Oklahoma Court Affirms Employer’s Right to Choose Provider
Jun 5 2017 // An Oklahoma civil appeals court ruled in favor of an employer and its insurer by upholding an order by the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission affirming an employer’s right to direct the medical treatment...
tKg Wholesale Brokerage Taps Becotte as Senior Underwriter for Small Business in Southeast
Jun 2 2017 // Wanda Becotte will join tKg Wholesale Brokerage as senior underwriter, Small Business Division serving its Southeastern region. Becotte began her insurance career in 2002, working on the retail side for nine years. During...
