Latest Business Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Hartford Enhances Sales Support For Small Business Benefit Brokers
Jun 27 2012 // A new team at The Hartford is offering specialized services for benefits brokers, in order to meet the changing needs of small business owners and their employees. The Hartford recently launched a small business center...
North Carolina Passes Law Targeting Employers Without Workers’ Comp
Jun 25 2012 // North Carolina business owners may find it harder to escape having workers’ compensation coverage after state lawmakers approved a bill closing a legal loophole that had resulted in tens of thousands of employers...
UK MGA’s Advised on Changes in Employers Liability, Public Liability Claims
Jun 22 2012 // Impending changes in UK laws governing claims for Employers Liability (EL) and Public Liability (PL) should be a priority membersof the UK’s Managing General Agents’ Association were told at a recent briefing...
Chartis Increases Commercial Property Per-Risk Capacity
Jun 18 2012 // Chartis has increased its commercial property per-risk capacity to $1.5 billion on a worldwide basis. This level of capacity had previously been available to Chartis’ North American domiciled clients, underwritten by...
Commercial Insurance Prices Continue to Rise: Towers Watson
Jun 18 2012 // Commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by nearly 5 percent during the first quarter of 2012, the fifth consecutive quarter that prices rose. In addition, commercial insurers’ loss ratios stabilized for...
Small Business Owners Dismiss Risk of Data Breach: Survey
Jun 14 2012 // As the number of data breaches involving smaller businesses continues to grow, a new survey by The Hartford finds 85 percent of small business owners believe a data breach is unlikely, and many are not implementing simple...
Commercial Insurance Prices Continue to Rise: Towers Watson
Jun 11 2012 // Commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by nearly five percent during the first quarter of 2012, the fifth consecutive quarter that prices rose. In addition, commercial insurers’ loss ratios stabilized for...
In the Workplace, What Do Millennials Want?
Jun 11 2012 // There’s a lot of talk in property/casualty insurance circles these days about how the industry is going to replace the huge wave of baby boomers that are beginning to retire and will continue to do so into the next...
Atlas Expands Commercial Auto Insurance Underwriting to Utah
Jun 7 2012 // Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc.has started selling its core commercial automobile insurance products in Utah, becoming the 31st state where Atlas is actively underwriting. Atlas’ insurance subsidiaries, American...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Extends Private Employer Rate Cut
Jun 5 2012 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) in late May announced an extension of the $65 million in rate cuts enacted last year for Ohio’s private sector employers to the 2013 policy year that begins July...
Wyoming Pushes Workplace Safety With New Hire
Jun 4 2012 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate. Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as New...
Indiana Finds Assurant Subsidiaries Overcharged Small Businesses
May 29 2012 // Three subsidiaries of Assurant Health will provide refunds to small group health insurance policyholders that Indiana insurance regulators say the companies overcharged. Indiana Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson...
Wyoming Pushes Workplace Safety With New Hire
May 25 2012 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced Wednesday the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate. Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as...
Vermont Companies Get Workplace Safety Awards
May 23 2012 // The state of Vermont is honoring several companies for their commitment to safety in the workplace. The Ben & Jerry’s plant in St. Albans and the H.P. Hood plant in Barre have won awards in the large business...
Wisconsin’s United Heartland Honored as a Top 100 Workplace
May 23 2012 // United Heartland, a national workers’ compensation insurance company based in New Berlin, Wis., announced it has been selected as one of the Top 100 Workplaces in Southeastern Wisconsin by the Milwaukee Journal...
Court Tosses Workplace Retaliation Damages Suit Against Mississippi College
May 18 2012 // A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case. In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had...
Aqua Underwriting Enters UK Commercial Market with High Net Worth Products
May 16 2012 // UK-based Aqua Underwriting announced the launch of a range of niche commercial combined products exclusively for brokers, building on its success with high net worth (HNW) products in the personal lines market. Aqua said...
OSHA Hit for Taking Too Long to Adopt Workplace Safety Rules
May 7 2012 // The nation’s premier worker safety agency takes nearly eight years on average to adopt new safety regulations, government auditors said in a report. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration takes far too...
Progressive Expands Commercial Auto Coverage Limits
May 7 2012 // Progressive Insurance has doubled the available liability limits of its commercial auto policies. It now offers options for $1.5 or $2 million. The expanded limits mean business owners won’t need to buy a separate...
Michigan Workplace Deaths Drop Slightly
May 7 2012 // The Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program reported that 141 workers died on the job in 2011 – four fewer than in 2010. The program investigates work-related deaths and seeks ways to prevent...
