Latest Business Insurance Headlines
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ACE Appoints Commercial P&C Leaders for Overseas General Insurance Division
Dec 3 2015 // ACE Ltd. has appointed the commercial property & casualty leadership team for the company’s Overseas General Insurance division. The leadership appointments will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of...
ACE Announces Future Leadership Team for Global Surety Business Unit
Dec 2 2015 // ACE Ltd. announced the leadership team it has appointed for the company’s Global Surety business unit, which will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of Chubb, expected in the first quarter of 2016. As...
Maryland Issues Bulletin on Commercial Policy Cancellation Notices
Nov 19 2015 // Property/casualty insurers writing commercial policies in Maryland are no longer required to file for approval the cancellation or nonrewal notices they send out to insureds, the Maryland Insurance Administration announced...
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC Commercial Division Announces Further State Growth and Product Expansion
Nov 19 2015 // San Diego, CA, November 19, 2015 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC (“Atlas”) has continuously expanded its product portfolio within the United States, offering seven proprietary and exclusive...
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC Named in Business Insurance’s Annual Best Places to Work in Insurance
Nov 18 2015 // San Diego, CA, November 18, 2015 – Atlas General Insurance Services (atlas.us.com) announced today that it has been ranked as #16 in the small employer group category with the annual Best Places to Work in Insurance...
Commercial Insurance Rates, Except Auto and Flood, Still Falling
Nov 16 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately – an average of 3.1 percent – during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. The...
Feds: Indiana Workplace Safety Agency Understaffed, Too Slow
Nov 15 2015 // A federal review of Indiana’s workplace safety agency faulted it for having too few inspectors, slow responses to complaints and missing potentially deadly hazards. The U.S. Department of Labor’s annual...
Hudson Insurance Group Appoints Honken as Sr. VP, Commercial Auto
Nov 13 2015 // Hudson Insurance Group (Hudson) has appointed Ronald Honken to a newly created position as senior vice president of all commercial auto business. He will be based in Hudson’s Indianapolis office. Honken will direct...
Alper Services Hires Moyer in Commercial Lines Division
Nov 10 2015 // Chicago-based Alper Services LLC has added Robert Moyer as an account manager in its Commercial Lines Division. With eight years of experience in the insurance industry, Moyer has worked on both the underwriting and...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers Promotes 3 to Vice President
Nov 4 2015 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced the following promotions: Carmine D’Alessandro was promoted to vice president of...
ACE Launches Small Business Online Service Portal
Nov 3 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS), the small commercial specialty lines business of ACE Group, has launched its small business ACE CRS Producer Portal. It provides client access through the new online portal, which...
Rate of Workplace Injury, Illness Dropped in Texas in 2014
Oct 30 2015 // The Texas incidence rate of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in private industry decreased to 2.4 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers in 2014, down from 2.6 in 2013, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
World Insurance Appoints Heads of Personal, Commercial Lines in N.J.
Oct 30 2015 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent agency based in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, has hired Cathy Saporito as senior vice president, head of Personal Lines. Saporito joins World Insurance Associates from AIG, where...
Commercial Insurance Rates, Except Auto and Flood, Still Falling: CIAB
Oct 29 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately — an average of 3.1 percent— during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. The CIAB...
Arkansas Panel Wants Definition of ‘Small Business’ Expanded
Oct 26 2015 // A legislative panel has asked Arkansas’ insurance commissioner to expand the definition of small businesses so more companies can purchase coverage for their employees through a marketplace. But state Insurance...
K&K to Partner with Producers to Provide New Program Business Markets
Oct 21 2015 // K&K Insurance Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Aon plc, is now accepting property and casualty program business from producers. K&K has provided property and casualty program options for more than 60 years,...
E&O Insights: How Well Are You Managing Your Agency’s Commercial Lines Accounts?
Oct 19 2015 // Ask errors and omissions (E&O) carriers about their results when dealing with commercial lines shops and most, if not all, would comment that heavy commercial lines agencies definitely generate their share of E&O...
10 Things to Know About Commercial Property
Oct 19 2015 // Commercial property insurance continues to be a buyer’s market with additional capacity still making its way into an already overcrowded space. In the current market it is important for the insureds to set goals...
10 Ways to Retain More Commercial Lines Accounts
Oct 19 2015 // It’s costly to sell new commercial lines accounts. In addition to the various prospecting and marketing costs, there is fact gathering/front line underwriting, pricing, proposal preparation and presentation – and...
AIG Makes Leadership Changes at Commercial Insurance
Oct 16 2015 // American International Group (AIG) announced leadership appointments in its Commercial Insurance business, including a new chief underwriting officer and the newly-established roles of global head of Cyber, and presidents...
