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N.Y. Assembly Committee Forced to Vote on ‘Scaffold Law’ Reform Sought by Employers and Insurers
May 21 2004 // Chances there will be a vote on a key New York tort reform bill have improved after the Democratic sponsor of the bill has made a procedural move that will prompt the Assembly Labor Committee to consider his bill to reform...
U.S. House Passes OSHA Changes for Employers
May 20 2004 // Employers could get more time to challenge citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and more companies could recoup lawyers’ fees under a set of House bills that would make employer-friendly...
RIMS Report: Commercial Insurance Buyers Look Forward to Lower Prices
May 17 2004 // As thousands of risk management professionals, carrier executives, vendors and industry watchers gathered at the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s annual conference in San Diego, last month, there was only one...
Acordia’s Salt Lake City Office Names Luckey Commercial Lines Producer
May 13 2004 // Acordia has named Jean Luckey Commercial Lines Producer in Acordia’s Salt Lake City, Utah office. Luckey is responsible for generating new commercial business, as well as servicing and maintaining existing...
Crater to Head Hanover’ s N.Y.-N.J. Commercial Lines
May 11 2004 // The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies announced that Alan Crater has been named regional president of their downstate New York and New Jersey commercial lines divisions, effective immediately. Crater comes to...
Ohio DOI Announces Small Business Hotline
May 10 2004 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that it has established a toll-free hotline to assist the state’s small business owners with questions about health, business automobile, property and professional liability...
W. Va. WCC Files Injunctions Against Pair of State Employers in Default
May 4 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. The injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...
W. Va. WCC Files Injunctions Against Trio of State Employers
May 3 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against three state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. The injunctions were filed in Kanawha...
Congress Urged to Make Workplace Deaths Due to Employer Negligence a Felony
Apr 29 2004 // A man whose son was killed 11 years ago in a gruesome workplace accident in Florida urged Congress this week to give prosecutors the threat of felony convictions against employers whose neglect for federal safety rules...
Philadelphia Insurance Agents Get Real Time Commercial Auto Services
Apr 29 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (NASDAQ: PHLY) has launched AutoIDweb, a new service on its AccessPHLY Agent Web Portal that provides agents access to their commercial auto policies with the ability to add/delete vehicles...
W. Va. WCC Files Injunctions Against Pair of Employers
Apr 28 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. The injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...
ACUITY Promotes Ramos to Commercial Underwriter
Apr 21 2004 // Sheboygan, Wis.-based regional property/casualty insurer ACUITY recently promoted Laura Ramos to commercial staff underwriter. Since joining ACUITY in January 2001, Ramos had been a commercial lines underwriter. Prior to...
Study Shows Commercial Property, GL Rates Falling
Apr 21 2004 // The costs for two major commercial lines insurance fell in the first quarter of 2004, according to a RIMS Benchmark Survey. In the first quarter of 2004, premium prices for property insurance fell by about 1.5 percent....
Aon Reports US Commercial Property Rates Drop 10%
Apr 20 2004 // A study by Aon, released to coincide with the RIMS conference in San Diego, has determined that an average reduction of around 10 percent has occurred in U.S. Commercial property rates. Willis and the CIAB also issued...
CIAB Survey Shows Q1 Commercial P/C Easing
Apr 20 2004 // The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers has issued a report indicating that the commercial property and casualty market “continued to ease across most lines during the first quarter of 2004, with the average...
OHIO BUREAU SWEEPS 200 EMPLOYERS FOR COMP COVER:
Apr 19 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently concluded a random sweep of 200 employers in the Toledo area to determine whether they have active workers’ compensation coverage, collecting $110,412 in...
Workers’ Compensation – Small- to Mid-Size Employer
Apr 19 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Insurex Inc. and Frontier General announce the release of a new workers’ compensation product in California with ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA. The new product launched is called ACE...
Mass. Streamlines and Equalizes Agents’ Access to CAR’s Commercial Auto High Risk Operation
Apr 17 2004 // The Massachusetts auto insurance industry is streamlining the way it handles high risk commercial auto risks by reducing the number of servicing carriers involved in handling them and equalizing access to the residual...
Calif. Commissioner Calls for Workers’ Comp Reform Savings to be Passed Through to Employers
Apr 16 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released the following statement in regards to the recent agreement by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature for a workers’ compensation reform...
New Low Cost Commercial, Renters Flood Insurance Policies Available
Apr 15 2004 // The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is offering new Preferred Risk Policy (PRP) products for both the commercial market and renters markets. NFIP says these policies were created in response to consumer demand for...
