Latest Middle Market Headlines
All the headlines from our Middle Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Your Agency from Spam and Viruses
Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think-and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...
Survey: Consumerism Gaining Foothold in Group Benefits for Mich. Mid-Market
May 24 2005 // Troy, Mich.-based benefits broker McGraw Wentworth released the results of its 2005 Southeast Michigan mid-market group benefits survey. The survey compares benefit plans and trends among 465 mid-sized organizations in...
The Hartford Offers Agency eSubmission for Mid-Market Business
May 24 2005 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is speeding up the process of placing midsize commercial accounts. Independent insurance agents now can submit new business applications directly to The Hartford for general...
Nearly Half of Large, Mid-sized Businesses Purchased Terrorism Insurance in 2004
May 23 2005 // Nearly half of large and mid-sized U.S. businesses obtained insurance to cover property terrorism risks during 2004, a dramatic increase from the 2003 average of 27 percent. Meanwhile, the cost of property terrorism...
Middle-Market Umbrella
May 9 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Wausau Insurance is more than doubling its in-house individual account coverage limits up to $25 million. This new middle-market feature leverages an umbrella program offered by the large account...
Wausau Expands Middle-Market Umbrella Capacity
Mar 29 2005 // Wausau Insurance announced it is more than doubling its in-house individual account coverage limits up to $25 million for its middle-market umbrella insurance program. This new middle-market feature is aimed at leveraging...
Industry Under Fire: Will Insurance Broker M&As Still Keep Pace’
Nov 22 2004 // Will pending investigations of insurance brokers halt the robust pace of the industry’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity? In mid-October 2004, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a civil...
Zurich Names Lindemann Middle Markets President
Sep 14 2004 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich has named Robert Lindemann president of the middle markets business unit of its North American commercial business division. Lindemann brings 29 years of commercial insurance experience with...
ACE USA Forms ACEONLINE; Benson Named President
Aug 24 2004 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, is creating a new unit, ACEONLINE, focusing on web-based distribution of insurance products that target the small to middle market. ACE...
‘Middle Market’ Not Immune to Directors & Officers Worries
Jul 19 2004 // The Enron, Adelphia, Global Crossing and WorldCom corporate governance and fraud scandals of 2001 and 2002 may seem like a distant and terrible memory, but the public received some harsh reminders recently. Former Enron...
ACE Risk Management Introduces Corporate Risk Solutions for Mid-Sized Companies
Jul 13 2004 // Ace Risk Management, a unit of ACE USA, announced an expansion of its product offerings targeted toward mid-sized companies in the casualty risk financing marketplace through the establishment of specialized teams in each...
Hartford Announces New eSubmission Capabilities
May 25 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group announced that it is introducing a series of eSubmission tools for new middle market accounts, which it feels will “revolutionize how middle market business is handled, saving...
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...
Aon to Push Middle-Market Captives
Mar 11 2004 // Chicago-based brokerage giant Aon Corp. has formed Aon Alternative Risk Underwriting (ARU), a managing general underwriter that provides group captive solutions for middle-market U.S. companies. Working through independent...
Superior Access’ New Admitted Carrier Offering Mid-Market BOP
Feb 24 2004 // Richard Swoy, chairman of Irvine, Calif.-based Superior Access Insurance Services Inc., announced that SAIS added an “A (excellent)” rated admitted carriers exclusively for SAIS member agents and brokers...
Liability for Small to Mid-Size Businesses
Jan 12 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: E.L.M. Insurance Brokers Inc. has a professional liability suite of products for small to mid-size businesses that includes liability coverage for employment practices, directors and officers, entity...
Liability for Small to Mid-Size Businesses
Jan 12 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: E.L.M. Insurance Brokers Inc. targets small to mid-size businesses with its professional liability suite of products, which includes liability coverage for employment practices, directors and officers,...
E.L.M. Offers Liability ‘Suite’ For Small to Mid-Size Businesses
Nov 21 2003 // Los Angeles-based E.L.M. Insurance Brokers Inc., a specialist in professional liability, targets small to mid-size businesses with its “professional liability suite of products,” which includes liability...
Policy Options and Offerings are Major Issues for Mid-Size Manufacturers
Nov 17 2003 // Coverage options and product offerings, rather than price, are the most important factors for middle market manufacturers when they go looking for insurance to cover their businesses. At least that’s the conclusion...
Policy Options and Offerings are Major Issues for Mid-Size Manufacturers
Nov 17 2003 // Coverage options and product offerings, rather than price, are the most important factors for middle market manufacturers when they go looking for insurance to cover their businesses. At least that’s the conclusion...
