Latest Commercial Lines Headlines

All the headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Maryland Governor Signs Commercial Lines Dereg Bill

May 22 2000 // Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening signed legislation last week removing form filing requirements for commercial insurers and sophisticated clients. Senate Bill 598 exempts some large commercial policyholders from obtaining...

Insure.com Launches Small Business Insurance Forum

Apr 18 2000 // Insure.com has introduced a new Small Business Insurance Forum, where readers can receive individual help with insurance problems. The forum joins insure.com’s other long-running forums focusing on auto, health, home...

Nebraska Enacts Commercial Deregulation Law

Apr 12 2000 // Nebraska became the fourth state this year to enact a law simplifying the commercial lines rate and form filing process. The bill, introduced at the request of the Nebraska Department of Insurance, was referred to as the...

Nebraska Unicameral Passes Commercial Lines Reg. Measure

Apr 7 2000 // The Nebraska Unicameral has passed a bill implementing a file-and-use system for commercial insurance lines, exempting certain large commercial policyholders from the new rate and form filing requirements. Thresholds for...

InsureZone Launches Business Insurance Site

Apr 7 2000 // InsureZone began offering business insurance coverage online Thursday at InsureZone.com. Policies available on the InsureZone web site are targeted to businesses with 50 or fewer employees. Coverage includes business...

Businesses Satisfied with Commercial Insurance,

Apr 7 2000 // More than half of firms with sales between $5 million and $100 million are very satisfied with insurers’ understanding of their needs and the coverage they offered to meet those needs according to a recent business...

Small Businesses Poised to Switch Insurance Carriers

Apr 4 2000 // An estimated 80 percent of small businesses would consider changing their property-casualty carrier unless they were completely satisfied with their business insurance according to a survey conducted by CustomerStance, a...