Latest Commercial Lines Headlines
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EPolicy Aligns With The St. Paul Cos. to Offer New Business Insurance Products
Mar 23 2001 // ePolicy.com Insurance Services, Inc. has aligned with The St. Paul Cos., a premier provider of property-liability insurance products, to provide a Business Insurance Policy, umbrella coverage and business auto coverage to...
Amwest Discontinues Commercial Auto Program
Mar 20 2001 // Amwest Insurance Group Inc. announced that it will immediately cease writing new commercial automobile policies. The decision to discontinue this product line follows the company’s plan of reorganization previously...
Employers Reinsurance Corp. Names Pomeroy Associate General Counsel
Mar 9 2001 // Glenn Pomeroy, the former commissioner of insurance of North Dakota and former president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, has been named associate general counsel for regulatory affairs at Employers...
Commercial Auto-The LONG Road Back to Profitability
Feb 19 2001 // The signs were there in 2000—and now it can safely be said that prices in the commercial auto industry are definitely firming. But how long it will take the industry to truly return to profitability is still hard to...
Combination to Create Global Large Commercial Insurance Business
Feb 16 2001 // XL Capital Ltd has agreed to purchase Winterthur International from Winterthur Insurance, a subsidiary of the Credit Suisse Group. The all-cash transaction is valued at approximately $600 million and will be funded by XL...
Commercial Auto: The Long Road Back to Profitability
Feb 12 2001 // The signs were there in 2000—and now it can safely be said that prices in the commercial auto industry are definitely firming. But how long it will take the industry to truly return to profitability is still hard to...
Rackley Unveils Windows-Based Commercial Lines Rating Software
Feb 7 2001 // Rackley Systems released a new version of its comparative commercial lines rating software – Rackley Systems for Windows. The software is available in all 50 states. The new software is a full-featured Windows...
Commercial P/C Rates Hardened in 2000
Jan 30 2001 // Through its fourth quarter 2000 Commercial Insurance Market Index, released yesterday, The Council reported commercial property/casualty premium rates across all lines of the business and group medical coverage rose...
New York State Insurance Department May Act to Assist Small Businesses
Jan 23 2001 // The New York State Insurance Department is investigating whether insurance policies for sole proprietors are priced too high. The department says there are indications that the rates may be justified to move toward small...
Workplace Injuries in California at Lowest Rate Since 1971
Jan 18 2001 // Job-related nonfatal injury/illness rates in 1999 continued to decrease, reaching a record low of 6.3 workers injured out of every 100, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of...
Arrowhead Expands Its Product Lines to Include Commercial Transportation
Jan 15 2001 // Through its specialty division, San Diego-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency is now offering agents a new commercial transportation program. The program is available in most states and offers auto liability, physical...
Kemper Insurance Companies and InsuranceNoodle Team up to Target Small Business Owners
Jan 9 2001 // Kemper Insurance Cos. has signed an agreement with InsuranceNoodle to expand its initiative of providing products designed for small business owners. The agreement allows InsuranceNoodle to enhance its offering to small...
Missouri Approves Sale of Commercial HMO Business
Jan 3 2001 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has approved Health Partners of the Midwest’s sale of its commercial HMO business to Group Health Plan, another health maintenance organization based in St. Louis. The transaction...
RLI Develops Commercial Surety Unit
Dec 20 2000 // RLI Corp. has formed RLI Commercial Surety to augment its surety division. The group of commercial surety professionals will develop the product line into a significant component of RLI’s successful surety segment,...
Commercial Dereg Bill Passes in D.C.
Dec 7 2000 // Legislation to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in Washington, D.C. achieved final passage Tuesday through a unanimous vote of the District of Columbia Council. The Insurance Trade and Economic...
Commercial P/C Rates Continue to Harden
Nov 20 2000 // Property/casualty rates for small, medium and large commercial lines continued to rise between July 1 and Sept. 30, according to The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ Commercial Insurance Market Index for the...
Kemper Targets Small Business Market with Specialized Coverages
Nov 15 2000 // Kemper Insurance Cos. is targeting the small business market for substantial growth with a new line of specialized coverages, capitalizing on the economy’s fastest-growing segment, which generates more than $50...
D.C. Commercial Dereg Bill Approved by Council
Nov 10 2000 // Legislation to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in D.C. cleared another legislative hurdle yesterday when the District of Columbia Council voted unanimously to approve the “Insurance Trade and...
SAFECO’s American States Business Insurance Renamed
Nov 8 2000 // SAFECO subsidiary American States Business Insurance will now be called SAFECO Business Insurance. The change comes three years after SAFECO acquired Indianapolis-based American States Insurance, a purchase that filled...
The Hartford Introduces Changes in Small Business
Oct 26 2000 // Spectrum 2000 is an especially significant improvement since it offers much more flexibility and greater protection against property and liability losses. More than 700 types of businesses can now be protected with The...
