Latest Commercial Lines Headlines
All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
S&P Warns Soft Market Could Mean Downgrades for Commercial Insurers
Apr 9 2008 // The U.S. commercial lines property/casualty insurance “soft” pricing cycle will likely mean outlooks on some commercial lines insurers will be revised to negative in the second half of 2008, according to...
Farmers Business Insurance Appoints Samalya Executive VP/President
Apr 8 2008 // Farmers Group Inc., has appointedof Mhayse Samalya executive vice president of Farmers Group Inc. and president of Farmers Business Insurance. He previously was senior vice president of Farmers Group Inc. and president of...
Survey: 1Q Commercial Lines Premiums Drop Most Since 2005
Apr 7 2008 // Commercial lines insurance premiums experienced the largest quarterly drop since 2005 during the first quarter of 2008, according to an industry survey of risk managers. Undeterred by mounting claims from the meltdown of...
Monarch E&S Hires Commercial Underwriter, Names Head of Fresno Office
Apr 3 2008 // California-based Monarch E&S Insurance Services announced the return of Dina Dryden as a senior commercial underwriter for the Property & Casualty Department. She will work from the San Diego office and will be...
Burns & Wilcox Appoints Rose as Commercial Underwriting Manager
Apr 3 2008 // Burns & Wilcox announces that Hariett Rose has rejoined the company as a commercial underwriting manager at its Cleveland, Ohio office. Rose first started at Burns & Wilcox in 1997 as a senior underwriter. Most...
Preferred Employers Introducers Medical Provider Network for California Businesses
Mar 26 2008 // San Diego-based Preferred Employers Insurance Co., which specializes inworkers’ compensation insurance for small employers in California, has created a medical provider network for treatment of work related injuries....
Florida’s Allstate Workplace Division Names Watkins
Mar 24 2008 // Florida-based Allstate Workplace Division, a subsidiary of The Allstate Corp., appointed W. Wayne Watkins, RHU as executive vice president, Sales and Distribution. In his new role, Watkins will oversee all the sales...
America’s Young Insurance Agents: Love and Optimism in the Workplace
Mar 24 2008 // “I wanted a job I could love,” says 29-year-old Meghan McGarry. She found it when she first went to work in an independent insurance agency in New York. Four and one-half years later, and now handling small...
Recall Crisis Recovery sm (RCR sm) Customized Recall Policy for Small to Mid-Sized Manufacturers
Mar 19 2008 // New Forms! New Wording! EXPOSURE: Do your clients know they are legally responsible for the safety of food and beverage products they manufacture? Governmental agencies do NOT differentiate based on the size of a...
Lexington Insurance Hikes Capacity for Commercial Property to $1.5 Billion
Mar 14 2008 // Lexington Insurance Co., an AIG company, has increased its capacity for commercial domestic property insurance by an additional $1 billion, raising the total non-catastrophe property capacity to $1.5...
Zurich Services Corp. Partners with OSHA Fast Fix for Workplace Safety
Mar 13 2008 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich Services Corp.’s risk engineering division recently announced that it is collaborating with OSHA Fast Fix to help Zurich customers improve workplace safety, address the causes of...
North Carolina Company Fined for Fatal Workplace Accident
Mar 12 2008 // A Guilford County, North Carolina company has been fined more than $17,000 for violations found after the death of a teenager who became entangled in a grinder. The News & Record of Greensboro, N.C., reported that the...
Job Bias Claims Against Employers Up 9%– Biggest Rise in Years
Mar 6 2008 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received a total of 82,792 private sector discrimination charge filings last fiscal year, the highest volume of incoming charges since 2002 and the largest annual...
Farmers Insurance Unit to Assume Zurich Small Business Renewals
Mar 5 2008 // Truck Insurance Exchange, a unit of Farmers Insurance Group, reports it will purchase the rights to access renewals on Zurich North America Commercial’s Small Business Solutions (SBS) $800 million book of...
Willis, Erickson Appointed Business Unit Managers at LWCC
Feb 29 2008 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced it hired Joseph Erickson as business unit manager for its middle market accounts team and Vernon Willis Jr. as business unit manager for its large accounts...
Cambridge GA Offers Accidental Downtime for Commercial Auto
Feb 28 2008 // California-based Cambridge General Agency is offering coverage for accidental downtime for commercial auto risks. This coverage is only available for vehicles with comprehensive and collision coverage. The accidental...
10 Things to Know About Commercial Auto
Feb 24 2008 // 1. When should an insured consider a commercial auto policy over a personal auto policy that is rated for business use? Generally speaking, when the vehicle is: Used for business and owned by a corporation or...
Employers, Lawmakers Push Doctors to Adopt Electronic Prescriptions
Feb 22 2008 // Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online. Officials in the public and private...
Burns & Wilcox Adds Commercial Lines Producer in Cleveland
Feb 19 2008 // Burns & Wilcox recently announced that Karen Sutera has joined the company’s Cleveland office as a commercial lines producer. Sutera has more than 10 years experience in the insurance industry and has an...
N.C. Poultry Industry Workplace Safety Prompts Federal Hearings Plans
Feb 19 2008 // U.S. Senate and House committees are planning hearings on worker safety in the poultry industry following a report by The Charlotte Observer on House of Raeford, congressional leaders and aides said. “All Americans...
