Latest Commercial Lines Headlines
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The Midland Company to Cease Offering Commercial Liability Coverage
Sep 20 2001 // The Midland Company, a provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced that American Modern Insurance Group, its insurance subsidiary, will cease offering the commercial liability coverages associated with...
Midland Co. Announces American Modern to Cease Commercial Liability
Sep 19 2001 // The Midland Company, a highly focused provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced that American Modern Insurance Group, its insurance subsidiary, will cease offering the commercial liability coverages...
Insurity Releases Web Interface for Commercial Intellisys
Sep 4 2001 // Insurity, a ChoicePoint® company, introduced a browser interface for Commercial Intellisys (SM), its rating and policy-issuance product. The interface enhances the functionality of Commercial Intellisys, while enabling...
Majority of U.S. Businesses Report Workplace Safety Pays Off
Aug 31 2001 // Ninety-five percent of business executives report that workplace safety has a positive impact on a company’s financial performance, according to the findings of “The Executive Survey of Workplace Safety”...
Attempts at Workers’ Comp Reform Could Hurt Agents, Small Business
Aug 30 2001 // According to Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), a workers’ compensation bill moving its way through the California Legislature doesn’t go far enough in attempts to reduce costs to reform the...
Silver Plume Introduces Sage Reference Tool for Commercial P&C Agents
Aug 22 2001 // Insurance Reference Systems Inc. (Silver Plume), an AMS company, announced the introduction of Sage, a web-based, intelligent research tool that uses an insurance-specific, Internet-style engine to search its library of...
AIA Warns Established Commercial Contract Language is at Risk
Aug 15 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), a policyholder’s attempt to transform a commercial property insurance policy’s condition of coverage language into a grant of coverage for defective...
Travelers to Resume Writing New Commercial Auto and Umbrella Business in Ohio
Aug 2 2001 // Travelers Insurance announced it will re-enter the Ohio insurance marketplace for new commercial auto and umbrella business with the enactment of the “Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Availability Act of...
UNISYS to Offer Commercial Insurers Risk
Jul 31 2001 // Unisys Corporation announced that it has established an Internet-based Risk Trading Exchange for the global insurance/reinsurance marketplace. Enabling all market players to access and transact numerous types and classes...
Marsh, AT&T Unveil E-Business Risk Solution
Jul 12 2001 // Companies that use AT&T’s Internet Data Centers and managed web hosting services are eligible for a new benefit — e-business insurance from Marsh Inc. that rewards AT&T enterprise hosting customers...
AXA Acquires Independent’s Small Business Website
Jul 5 2001 // AXA Insurance, the French giant’s U.K. unit, has acquired Independent Insurance’s small business website from the company’s liquidators. The site, www.business-risk.com, employs 17 people, who will be...
‘Invent’ive: HP Offers e-Center for Small Businesses
Jun 18 2001 // So I come across an e-mail or a site that tells me that if I subscribe to a Hewlett-Packard e-newsletter, that I’ll get a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Now, you know me, I can’t pass up free money when...
SAFECO Combines Commercial UW Operations
Jun 11 2001 // The commercial operations of SAFECO Business Insurance (SBI) and SAFECO Commercial Insurance (SCI) will be consolidated into one organization in an effort to concentrate on small- to medium-sized business accounts, SAFECO...
‘Invent’ive: HP Offers e-Center for Small Businesses
Jun 11 2001 // So I come across an e-mail or a site that tells me that if I subscribe to a Hewlett-Packard e-newsletter, that I’ll get a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Now, you know me, I can’t pass up free money when...
U.K. Commercial Premiums Will Continue to Rise
Jun 7 2001 // Delegates at the annual meeting of the U.K.’s Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Birmingham were told by insurance industry representatives that commercial insurance rates would continue to rise, with...
Legislation to Protect Small Businesses from Hazardous Liability Litigation Passed
May 30 2001 // Legislation that would provide Superfund liability protection for small-businesses that disposed of municipal solid waste before April 1, 2001 recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives. According to Julie...
Conning Survey Says Commercial Lines Rates Continue to Accelerate
May 29 2001 // A recent Conning & Company survey of insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. indicates that price increases have continued to accelerate and are in double-digit territory for most commercial lines. In addition,...
Risks of School and Workplace Violence to be Explored at Meeting
May 25 2001 // More than 2,000 risk management professionals from around the world are expected to attend North America’s largest meeting of government risk management practitioners in Chicago from June 10-13, 2001. Programming for...
Employers Ins. Co. of Nevada Selects HNC Software for Workers’ Comp Claims
May 21 2001 // A bill by Assemblyman Thomas M. Calderon (D-Montebello) that would prohibit insurance carriers from refusing to issue or renew an auto insurance policy based solely on an individual’s credit rating was approved by...
SAFECO Says it Will Focus on Small, Medium Business Market
May 18 2001 // SAFECO announced plans to consolidate its commercial operations and focus on insurance for small-to-medium sized businesses. The new SAFECO Business Insurance enterprise will be headquartered in Seattle, with five...
