Latest Commercial Lines Headlines
All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Most Texas Employers to See Decrease in Unemployment Insurance Tax Rates
Dec 9 2005 // Citing an improved economy, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) said most Texas employers will see a decrease in their employer tax rate for calendar year 2006 compared to last year. Texas Unemployment Insurance (UI)...
W. Va. Workers’ Comp Chief Warns Employers Failing to Pay
Dec 7 2005 // As it spins off as a private insurance program, West Virginia’s workers’ compensation program will show little patience with employers that fail to pay their premiums, its executive director said Monday. As of...
BCBS of Okla., State Chamber Launch New Health Plan for Small Businesses
Dec 6 2005 // The Oklahoma State Chamber and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma reported they are making available Oklahoma Chamber Blue, a health insurance plan designed to make health coverage more affordable and accessible for...
Fla. Town Hall Meetings Scheduled to Update Employers, Employees About Workers’ Comp
Dec 6 2005 // A series of town hall workshops will be held this month in Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Myers, Fla. to give employers and employees updated information on the state’s workers’ compensation system and to answer...
Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market
Dec 5 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Small Business Ain’t ‘Bean Bag’
Dec 5 2005 // American small-business owners understand all too well that politics is a challenging and often demanding sport. Nevertheless, they exhibited the optimism so prevalent in entrepreneurs, agreeing overwhelmingly that if good...
EMPLOYERS, EMPLOYEES COULD BE HURT BY DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE CHANGES
Dec 5 2005 // Proposed changes in the regulation of disability income insurance in California could significantly increase the cost of coverage and discourage some injured employees from returning to work, according to a study released...
Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market
Dec 4 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Taxes Bump Off Insurance Costs as Chief Concern of Ohio Small Business
Dec 1 2005 // Taxes replaced the cost of insurance as the most frequently cited single most important problem faced by small business, according to the latest Ohio Small-Business Conditions report. The data, which was released by the...
Small Business Ain’t ‘Bean Bag’
Nov 21 2005 // American small-business owners understand all too well that politics is a challenging and often demanding sport. Nevertheless, they exhibited the optimism so prevalent in entrepreneurs, agreeing overwhelmingly that if good...
Competition Increases in Commercial Auto, But Not Too Much–Yet
Nov 21 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...
Tracking Commercial Autos
Nov 21 2005 // Before you can finish saying “Beam me up, Scotty,” chances are a tiny transmitter is bouncing a signal off a satellite somewhere in space, indicating that your insured’s taxi is stowed in the hold of a...
Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...
New Definitions: Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...
Torts Drive Commercial Auto in Heartland, Elsewhere
Nov 20 2005 // Insurers like writing commercial auto business, and most lines of business, in the Midwestern states because of market stability and a favorable legislative and regulatory climate. But even in this typically stable line of...
Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...
New Definitions: Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...
Top 25 Commercial Auto Writers
Nov 20 2005 // Company Name 2004* 2005** 12/31/2004 6/30/2005 State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. 964,544 159,665 St Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. 654,788 46,260 Zurich American Insurance Co. 630,760 170,012 Auto-Owners...
Competition Increases in Commercial Auto, But Not Too Much-Yet
Nov 20 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...
General Electric Exits Insurance; Sells Insurance Solutions, Employers Re to Swiss Re
Nov 18 2005 // General Electric has agreed to sell most of its Insurance Solutions business, including Employers Reinsurance Corp., to Swiss Re for $6.8 billion. It will retain some life insurance business. The transaction is subject to...
