Latest Business Insurance Headlines
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Supreme Court Backs Employer on Retirees’ Pay for Health Benefits
Jan 27 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a company that amended a collective bargaining agreement to force retirees to pay toward healthcare costs, throwing out a lower-court ruling that favored the former employees who...
Starr Cos. Add Umbrella Product to Small Business Policies
Jan 26 2015 // Starr Cos. has launched a new commercial insurance umbrella liability policy, designed specifically for small-sized businesses. This product marks the next phase in Starr’s growing suite of insurance options for...
Ohio BWC Proposes Private Employer Workers’ Comp Rate Reduction
Jan 25 2015 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) is proposing to reduce overall premium rate levels for private employers beginning July 1, 2015. The 10.8 percent reduction would result in a decrease in projected annual...
Study Finds Workplace Trust a Predictor of Comp Outcomes in Arkansas
Jan 25 2015 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) identified new predictors of worker outcomes that can help public officials, payors, and health care providers in Arkansas improve the treatment and...
Committee Advances Bill To Increase Wyoming Workplace Safety Fines
Jan 23 2015 // A bill to increase penalties against Wyoming employers when safety violations result in worker fatalities has cleared its first hearing. The Senate Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Wednesday recommended...
Top 10 Causes of Workplace Injuries
Jan 16 2015 // Overexertion and falls account for more than $25 billion in workers’ compensation costs in the U.S. Being hurt by an object or equipment ranks third in workplace injury causes and claims costs in the Liberty Mutual...
ACE Launches Middle Market Insurance Solution for Continental Europe
Jan 15 2015 // ACE Group has launched ACE Middle Market Solutions, an enhanced proposition for brokers and clients, designed to help continue building its position in the middle market segment in key Continental Europe insurance...
Stateline Insurance Hires Dougherty as Commercial Lines Representative in R.I.
Jan 14 2015 // Kellie Dougherty Stateline Insurance & Financial Services, an independent agency in East Providence, Rhode Island, has hired Kellie Dougherty as commercial lines representative. Dougherty has over 10 years of...
Atlas General, Rockingham Group Partner on New Commercial Lines Programs
Jan 13 2015 // Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program manager, has partnered with The Rockingham Group to offer three exclusive new programs: general contractors general liability, artisan contractors...
AmWINS Launches Small Business Division
Jan 7 2015 // Wholesale broker AmWINS Group Inc. has launched a fifth division, AmWINS Access, which is dedicated to small account binding authority business. In conjunction with the launch of this new division, offices of Gresham &...
New OSHA Reporting Rules on Workplace Deaths, Hospitalizations in Effect Jan. 1
Dec 31 2014 // Effective January 1, 2015, all employers under the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be required to report all work-related fatalities within eight hours and all in-patient...
A.M. Best Reaffirms Chesapeake Employers’ Financial Strength Rating
Dec 24 2014 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, the largest workers’ compensation insurance company in Maryland, announced that insurance ratings agency A.M. Best Co. has reaffirmed a financial strength rating of A-...
Lindemann to Retire as President, COO of CNA Commercial Insurance
Dec 22 2014 // Chicago-based CNA Financial Corp. announced the retirement of Robert Lindemann, president and chief operating officer of CNA Commercial — a $3.5 billion commercial property and casualty business — effective Dec. 31,...
McDonald’s Is Joint Employer with Franchisees: National Labor Board
Dec 21 2014 // McDonald’s Corp. wields enough control over its franchisees that it should be jointly responsible for the working conditions of their employees, according to charges by the U.S. labor board critics say threatens to...
Wyoming Workplace Fatality Bill Endorsed by Lawmakers
Dec 18 2014 // Lawmakers have advanced a proposal that would sharply increase penalties when employee deaths occur because of safety violations at large companies in Wyoming, which has long been among the top states for workplace...
Hub Names Gervang SVP, Manager of Commercial Risk in California
Dec 16 2014 // Hub International Insurance Services Inc. named James Gervang senior vice president and manager of the commercial risk division in Mountain View, Calif. In addition to his commercial risk division management role, Gervang...
Zepnick Named Upper Midwest Region VP for Liberty Mutual Business Insurance
Dec 15 2014 // Timothy Zepnick has been appointed regional vice president for business insurance in Liberty Mutual Insurance’s upper Midwest region. Timothy Zepnick Zepnick will be based in Waukesha, Wis., and is responsible for...
San Antonio’s Ridesharing Rules Include Commercial Insurance Requirement
Dec 15 2014 // San Antonio has become the latest Texas city to approve rules for regulating ridesharing companies such as Lyft and Uber. The San Antonio City Council approved regulations that require commercial insurance, fingerprint...
Wyoming Needs More Workplace Inspections, Official Says
Dec 11 2014 // Wyoming needs to hire more workplace safety inspectors and allow police to pull over and ticket drivers not wearing their seat belts, the state’s outgoing workplace safety epidemiologist said. Wyoming had the worst...
EPIC in California Adds Dawson, Greenstein, Gaffney to Employer Services Platform
Dec 11 2014 // Shelley Dawson, Jon Greenstein and John Gaffney have joined Edgewood Partners Insurance Center in San Francisco. All will assume leadership roles in EPIC’s employer services platform, which provides a wide range of...
