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Trans Cal Promotes Two in Commercial Transportation and P/C Divisions
Oct 29 2007 // Managing general agent and surplus line boker Trans Cal Associates announced the expansion of it underwriting staff. Sarah Lemons was promoted to commercial lines underwriter in Trans Cal’s Commercial Transportation...
Harry W. Gorst Promotes Taylor to Commercial Lines Underwriter
Oct 29 2007 // The Harry W. Gorst Co. of Chatsworth, Calif., has promoted LaTanya Taylor to commercial lines underwriter. Taylor began her career in insurance in 1989 at a large California wholesaler, in which she specialized as a tech...
Small businesses should take cover under excess liability coverage
Oct 27 2007 // The insurance buying habits of the typical small commercial customer haven’t changed much in 15 to 20 years, yet the small business owner may be in more need of the added protection given by the purchase of a...
NetRate Systems Introduces ‘Black Box’ Component for ISO Commercial Lines Rating
Oct 26 2007 // Okemos, MI October 26, 2007 – NetRate Systems, Inc. (Okemos, MI), a leading supplier of ISO® Commercial Lines Rating software for the MGA and carrier marketplace, has announced the availability of component objects...
S.C.’s Rosenfeld Einstein Adds Terry to Commercial Team
Oct 25 2007 // South Carolina regional brokerage and consulting firm, Upstate-based Rosenfeld Einstein, added Jay Terry as Commercial Account Executive. Terry joins Rosenfeld Einstein after running his own insurance firm in Charleston,...
Wallisa to Join State Auto Middle Markets
Oct 25 2007 // Gina Wallisa will be joining State Auto Middle Markets’ (SAMMI) Texas office effective Oct.29, 2007, the company reported. Wallisa will serve as the zone underwriting manager responsible for executing regional...
OneBeacon Enters Indiana Small Business Market
Oct 24 2007 // Canton, Mass.-based One Beacon Insurance Group announced Tuesday that it will begin offering property-casualty products to small-business owners in Indiana through independent agent partners. OneBeacon’s local...
Zurich Commercial Expands Group Captive Product
Oct 24 2007 // Zurich is now offering its group captive product to agency, association and managing general agent (MGA) captives using independently owned segregated portfolio companies. “With the segregated portfolio option we now...
Md. Workplace Fatalities Rises in 2006
Oct 24 2007 // Statistics show the number of fatal work injuries in Maryland rose to 105 last year, an increase of 10 from the year before. The figure also represents the highest annual total since the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Fewer Iowans Died from Workplace Injuries in 2006
Oct 22 2007 // Fewer Iowans died from workplace injuries in 2006, a year in which 23 percent of work-related deaths involved car crashes, the Department of Labor said Friday. There were 71 fatal work-related injuries last year, a...
The Harry W. Gorst Co. Promotes Babic to Commercial Lines Underwriter
Oct 19 2007 // The Harry W. Gorst Co. based in Chatsworth, Calif., has promoted Sharon Babic to commercial lines underwriter. Babic began her career in insurance in 2003 as an account technician at a retail agency in Woodland Hills,...
Zurich NA Commercial Names Cooper to Lead South Central Region
Oct 18 2007 // Zurich North America named Marcus Cooper regional executive for its South Central Region, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Cooper will be based in Zurich North America Commercial’s Dallas,...
Ind. Dept. of Labor Reports 5.2 Percent Drop in Workplace Injuries, Illnesses
Oct 18 2007 // The Indiana Department of Labor recently reported a 5.2 percent drop in the number of workplace injuries and illnesses in 2006 from the year before. The figures are compiled in a survey by the federal Bureau of Labor...
Liberty Mutual Enhances Commercial Property Policy
Oct 16 2007 // Liberty Mutual Property, part of the Liberty Mutual Group, introduced a new commercial real estate product, RM Custom Select Commercial Real Estate. This new product features coverage enhancements designed to complement...
Workplace Woe: Are Abusive Bosses or Inferior Employees to Blame?
Oct 12 2007 // Considerable attention, both in blogs and in popular media, has been given to abusive bosses over the past few years. (See the Web sites HateBoss.com and WorkRant.com, for example.) Less discussed are employees’...
Harleysville Looks to Boost Benefits Sales Through Commercial P/C Agents
Oct 5 2007 // Pennsylvania-based Harleysville Life Insurance Co. says it sees great opportunity—and a natural market connection—for developing employee benefits programs through the commercial lines business generated by the...
D&O, Business Insurance Prices – Except Property – Continue to Drop
Oct 2 2007 // Steady erosion of commercial insurance industry pricing continued during the third quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk...
Mont.’s Workplace Deaths Down a Little Last Year
Sep 26 2007 // The Montana Department of Labor says that 45 people were killed in the workplace last year. The agency says that number is down a bit from the previous year. The natural resource and mining industry was the most deadly,...
Virginia Workplace Deaths Down 12%
Sep 26 2007 // The state’s labor department says job-related fatalities decreased 12 percent in Virginia last year after rising for three straight years. The Virginia Department of Labor and Industry says there were 164...
EC Report Questions European Business Insurance Practices
Sep 26 2007 // The European Commission has issued its long awaited final report on business insurance practices within the 25 member countries of the European Union. It raises questions of unfair competition in two areas: 1) premium...
