Latest Commercial Lines Headlines
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Main Street America Launches Commercial Lines Cyber Risk Coverage
Dec 4 2015 // The Main Street America Group has launched a cyber risk protection offering designed for “Main Street” businesses in 19 states across the country. The coverage, available through Main Street America’s...
Cyber Insurance Rates Up, Unlike Other Commercial Rates
Dec 3 2015 // Cyber insurance stood out in the third quarter as the only line for which insurers saw consistent and large rate increases, which averaged more than 15 percent in the United States, according to the latest analysis from...
ACE Appoints Commercial P&C Leaders for Overseas General Insurance Division
Dec 3 2015 // ACE Ltd. has appointed the commercial property & casualty leadership team for the company’s Overseas General Insurance division. The leadership appointments will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of...
ACE Announces Future Leadership Team for Global Surety Business Unit
Dec 2 2015 // ACE Ltd. announced the leadership team it has appointed for the company’s Global Surety business unit, which will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of Chubb, expected in the first quarter of 2016. As...
Maryland Issues Bulletin on Commercial Policy Cancellation Notices
Nov 19 2015 // Property/casualty insurers writing commercial policies in Maryland are no longer required to file for approval the cancellation or nonrewal notices they send out to insureds, the Maryland Insurance Administration announced...
Aon Benfield Names Nevard Chief Commercial Officer, Global ReSpecialty Unit
Nov 19 2015 // Aon Benfield has appointed Russell Nevard as chief commercial officer of its Global ReSpecialty reinsurance division. He will join the business in April 2016. Based in London, Nevard will report to Robert Bisset, chief...
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC Commercial Division Announces Further State Growth and Product Expansion
Nov 19 2015 // San Diego, CA, November 19, 2015 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC (“Atlas”) has continuously expanded its product portfolio within the United States, offering seven proprietary and exclusive...
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC Named in Business Insurance’s Annual Best Places to Work in Insurance
Nov 18 2015 // San Diego, CA, November 18, 2015 – Atlas General Insurance Services (atlas.us.com) announced today that it has been ranked as #16 in the small employer group category with the annual Best Places to Work in Insurance...
Commercial Insurance Rates, Except Auto and Flood, Still Falling
Nov 16 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately – an average of 3.1 percent – during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. The...
Feds: Indiana Workplace Safety Agency Understaffed, Too Slow
Nov 15 2015 // A federal review of Indiana’s workplace safety agency faulted it for having too few inspectors, slow responses to complaints and missing potentially deadly hazards. The U.S. Department of Labor’s annual...
Hudson Insurance Group Appoints Honken as Sr. VP, Commercial Auto
Nov 13 2015 // Hudson Insurance Group (Hudson) has appointed Ronald Honken to a newly created position as senior vice president of all commercial auto business. He will be based in Hudson’s Indianapolis office. Honken will direct...
CAL Insurance Adds Danfoura to Commercial Brokerage Team
Nov 10 2015 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named Fred H. Danfoura to its commercial brokerage team. Danfoura joins CAL in to increase the firm’s presence in the educational, nonprofit and investment real estate...
Alper Services Hires Moyer in Commercial Lines Division
Nov 10 2015 // Chicago-based Alper Services LLC has added Robert Moyer as an account manager in its Commercial Lines Division. With eight years of experience in the insurance industry, Moyer has worked on both the underwriting and...
Dual Commercial Hires Broomfield for Environmental Program in New York
Nov 5 2015 // Dual Commercial LLC, a specialty program administrator based in Naples, Florida, has hired John Broomfield as senior underwriter for the firm’s the Environmental Division. He is based in New York City. Broomfield has...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers Promotes 3 to Vice President
Nov 4 2015 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced the following promotions: Carmine D’Alessandro was promoted to vice president of...
ACE Launches Small Business Online Service Portal
Nov 3 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS), the small commercial specialty lines business of ACE Group, has launched its small business ACE CRS Producer Portal. It provides client access through the new online portal, which...
Dual Commercial Expands Environmental Program with Schoning in Colorado
Nov 3 2015 // DUAL Commercial LLC has named Melissa Schoning to its environmental team as a senior underwriter. Schoning will be working out of Lakewood, Colo. Schoning has more than 12 years of insurance experience in environmental...
Rate of Workplace Injury, Illness Dropped in Texas in 2014
Oct 30 2015 // The Texas incidence rate of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in private industry decreased to 2.4 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers in 2014, down from 2.6 in 2013, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
World Insurance Appoints Heads of Personal, Commercial Lines in N.J.
Oct 30 2015 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent agency based in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, has hired Cathy Saporito as senior vice president, head of Personal Lines. Saporito joins World Insurance Associates from AIG, where...
Commercial Insurance Rates, Except Auto and Flood, Still Falling: CIAB
Oct 29 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately — an average of 3.1 percent— during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. The CIAB...