Latest Commercial Lines Headlines
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Peerless Insurance Adds 40-Plus Business Classes to Small Commercial Program
Apr 27 2011 // Peerless Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 40 business classes to its Commercial Protector BOP product. The majority of the...
NFIB, EMPLOYERS Expand Work Comp Program to Additional States
Apr 26 2011 // The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has extended discounted workers’ compensation coverage benefits to its members in Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri through EMPLOYERS. EMPLOYERS...
Overcapacity in P/C Insurance Keeping Commercial Prices Down
Apr 26 2011 // Most commercial lines insurance prices continued their downward trend in the first quarter, as underwriters’ efforts to hold the line on premiums buckled under the pressure of a highly overcapitalized market. Three...
Alabama Boosts Tax Break for Small Businesses Buying Health Insurance
Apr 25 2011 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has signed legislation increasing the state income tax deduction that small businesses get for supplying health insurance for their employees. The new law applies to the current tax year....
SEC: Mid-Size Firms Should Follow Sarbanes Oxley Internal Control
Apr 25 2011 // Accountants at the U.S. securities regulator are recommending that medium-size public companies should not be exempted from a key auditing provision in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, saying the benefits to investors outweigh...
Oregon Sees 4 Workplace Fatalities in Q1 2011
Apr 25 2011 // Oregon recorded four compensable workplace fatalities in the first quarter of 2011, compared to seven compensable workplace fatalities for the same period in 2010. According to the Department of Consumer and Business...
Barney & Barney Adds Borsenberger in Commercial Division
Apr 22 2011 // San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC, a large insurance brokerage, has added Dennis Borsenberger to the Commercial Division. Borsenberger will serve as a client executive in company’s San Diego office. With a...
Missouri Black Caucus Urges Nixon to Veto Workplace Discrimination Bill
Apr 22 2011 // The Missouri Legislative Black Caucus is urging Gov. Jay Nixon to veto a workplace discrimination bill that recently gained legislative approval. In a letter to Nixon, the caucus said Senate Bill 188 would reverse...
UIB Places Commercial Payloads Coverage for Space Shuttle
Apr 22 2011 // London-based United Insurance Brokers and Space Partnership International have recently placed insurance for commercial payloads flying on the penultimate STS Shuttle mission (STS134), currently scheduled for the 29th...
Employers Holdings Q1 Earnings to Be Announced May 5
Apr 21 2011 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc., whose subsidiaries are specialty providers of workers’ compensation insurance focused on small businesses, announced it will review the company’s first quarter 2011...
Ohio Work Comp Bureau Offering Safety Grants to Wholesale, Retail Employers
Apr 21 2011 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer has announced a grant program to reduce or eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses in the wholesale/retail trade sector. As part of...
America First Expands Small Commercial Appetite to 60 More Business Classes
Apr 20 2011 // America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 60 business classes to its Commercial Protector BOP product. The majority...
Golden Eagle Expands Small Business BOP Product
Apr 18 2011 // Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 60 business classes to its Commercial Protector BOP product. The majority of...
Create and Promote Commercial ‘Coverages of the Quarter’
Apr 18 2011 // Formalize the Cross-Selling of Business Insurance Restaurants have specials, while stores, catalogs, and online marketers offer featured products. These time-tested retail sales methods are effective for selling to...
Hawaii Workplace Safety Regulator Looks Into Fireworks Blast
Apr 13 2011 // Hawaii’s workplace safety regulator has launched an investigation into the company responsible for the fireworks that exploded in a storage facility last week to determine if it has any record of violating safety...
Allied World Introduces Small to Mid-Size Company Privacy Coverage
Apr 11 2011 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG has introduced Allied World U.S.’s new privacy and network security insurance product, Privacy//101. Designed for small to mid‐size companies, law firms, healthcare and...
Commercial Insurance Pricing Cuts Slowed in March
Apr 6 2011 // Commercial insurers moderated their rate reductions in March, and coastal property accounts actually saw increases, the latest insurance pricing survey shows. According to the report from online exchange MarketScout, the...
MMA to Write Commercial Lines via Broker Network Trading Room
Apr 5 2011 // As of April 1st members of Broker Network (BN) will be able to trade with commercial insurer MMA Insurance plc via BN’s Network Trading Room. MMA plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of French multi-national insurer, MMA...
Starr Aviation Develops Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit
Apr 5 2011 // Starr Aviation Agency, Inc., a member of Starr Cos., has developed a Small Business Unit within their Workers’ Compensation division. The focus of the Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit is to provide an...
Florida Advances Commercial Insurance Rate Deregulation
Apr 4 2011 // A move to deregulate a number of commercial lines of property/casualty insurance is making quiet progress in Florida. The legislation, which has already passed the House by a unanimous vote, would exempt insurance pricing...
