Latest Commercial Lines Headlines
All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arrowhead Hires Ball to Lead Texas Commercial Division Office
Aug 15 2007 // San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. announced that Charles R. Ball was appointed vice president and general manager of its Commercial Division’s Texas office. In this position, Ball will...
Employers Holdings Records Q2 Net Income of $30.8 Million
Aug 15 2007 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. has reported consolidated net income of $30.8 million for the second quarter of 2007, an increase of 43.9 percent from $21.4 million in the second quarter of 2006. Net income...
Minn. Workplace Fatalities in 2006 Lower than Average
Aug 13 2007 // Seventy-eight people died from work-related injuries in Minnesota last year, a decrease of nine work-related deaths from the year before, the state Department of Labor and Industry announced on Thursday, Aug. 9th. The 2006...
Maine Court Rules Employer May Offset Workers Comp by Disability Sum
Aug 10 2007 // An employer may use a payment to an injured worker under its group life and disability plan to offset its workers’ compensation benefit payment, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The plaintiff had argued...
Fatal Workplace Injuries Drop Slightly, Census Reports
Aug 10 2007 // The Department of Labor’s BLS National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2006 released today show 5,703 people died from on-the-job injuries in 2006 compared with 5,734 in 2005. The rate of fatal work...
Workers’ Compensation Compliance Sweep Nabs 23 Fla. Employers
Aug 8 2007 // Florida workers’ compensation compliance investigators conducted a recent sweep of 177 businesses in two Panhandle counties that resulted in 23 Stop Work Orders against employers found to be operating without the...
2 W. Va. Employers Indicted on Fraud Charges
Aug 8 2007 // A Kanawha County Grand Jury indicted two West Virginia employers on multiple charges relating to failing to subscribe to the former Workers’ Compensation Commission. On the indictment of Susan Borman and Leonard Cox,...
Calif. Appeals Court Says Workers’ Comp Sole Remedy in Workplace
Aug 8 2007 // The California Court of Appeals has ruled that claims of assault and battery and emotional distress are barred by the workers’ compensation exclusivity rule, meaning that workers’ compensation is the only...
Hawaii Commissioner Announces New Commercial Lines Provider
Aug 7 2007 // Hawai’i State Insurance Commissioner J. P. Schmidt announced the launch of DTRIC Insurance Underwriters Ltd. (DIU), an “A-” Best Rated Co and subsidiary of local insurance provider DTRIC Insurance. The...
Commercial lines insights of top agencies
Aug 6 2007 // While much of the talk about the current commercial and professional lines market turns to insurers lowering their prices, the soft market is requiring agents to raise their agencies’ level of attention paid to...
Commercial clients should know who’s behind the wheel
Aug 6 2007 // Every insurance agent dreads the call from a business owner reporting a major claim. In many of these situations, the business failed to take the steps that could have prevented a loss. Unfortunately, even astute business...
COMMERCIAL P/C PRICES STILL DROPPING, RISK MANAGER SURVEY FINDS
Aug 6 2007 // Commercial insurance premiums continued to decline during the second quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk managers. RIMS Benchmark...
Commercial clients should know who’s behind the wheel
Aug 6 2007 // Every insurance agent dreads the call from a business owner reporting a major claim. In many of these situations, the business failed to take the steps that could have prevented a loss. Unfortunately, even astute business...
Commercial Lines Leaders
Aug 6 2007 // About the Commercial Lines Leaders: The Commercial Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only...
Commercial lines insights of top agencies
Aug 6 2007 // While much of the talk about the current commercial and professional lines market turns to insurers lowering their prices, the soft market is requiring agents to raise their agencies’ level of attention paid to...
Employers Holdings To Report Q2 Earnings
Aug 1 2007 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc., a provider of workers’ compensation insurance to small, U.S. businesses, will review the company’s second quarter 2007 financial results, operating results and other...
Chubb Names Commercial Lines Market Segment Manager
Aug 1 2007 // The Chubb Group has created a commercial underwriting group to manage existing market segments as well as drive the development of new and emerging segments. James L. West, senior vice president of Chubb & Son and...
Central Insurance Returns to Mass. Commercial Auto Market
Jul 27 2007 // Central Insurance is re-entering the Massachusetts commercial auto insurance marketplace after a 17-year absence. Since 1990, Central has been a commercial lines only insurer in Massachusetts, writing primarily commercial...
Auto crashes up, workplace injuries down according to Neb. Safety Council
Jul 23 2007 // Deaths from accidents have been increasing in Nebraska, becoming the fourth overall leading cause of death, according to figures from the Nebraska Safety Council. Accidental deaths had not ranked that high since 1998, but...
Maine Employee’s Widow Sues Employer Over Asleep-at-Wheel Crash
Jul 23 2007 // A floor products company faces a lawsuit by the Maine widow of an employee who was killed last year in a highway crash after he apparently fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from work. Another motorist who was...
