Latest Trucking Headlines
All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
BLS Reports Texas Truckers Lead Lone Star State’s Accident Statistics
Mar 30 2004 // Texas truck drivers recorded the largest number of occupational incidents during 2002, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. The BLS (www.stats.bls.gov/)...
Commercial Trucking
Mar 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. is offering a new market for commercial trucking. Dollars: Policy limits of up to $1million CSL; minimum premium of $1,000. Carrier: Old American County Mutual...
HBA Insurance Group Forms Trucking Industry Insurer
Feb 9 2004 // Florida-based HBA Insurance Group (www.hbains.com) announced the creation of a new insurance agency to serve South Florida’s trucking industry. Truck Owners Insurance Alliance LLC recently began operating from...
No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
Travelers Unveils New Web-Based Ocean Cargo Certificate Capability
Feb 3 2004 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. will now provide Web-based ability to create and print Ocean Cargo Certificates of Insurance to its Ocean Cargo policyholders and their agents. In addition to the anywhere, anytime...
Great American to Set Sail with Oceanwide’s Online Cargo Insurance
Jan 22 2004 // Cincinnati-based Great American Insurance Group has licensed Oceanwide’s (www.oceanwide.com) Genoa Cargo Insurance management platform to handle web-based processing and issuance of electronic insurance...
New ART Insurer Formed for Trucking Companies
Jan 14 2004 // Intermodal Insurance Co., a Federal Risk Retention Group, recently began providing commercial truck liability coverage. The new insurer has been established by five founding companies engaged in the local cartage of...
The Hartford Making Ocean Cargo Safer for Businesses
Dec 5 2003 // The exploits of pirates are exciting on the movie screen, but not much fun for the business owner whose ocean-bound goods they took as booty. Today the threat of swashbuckling men with an eye-patch and a parrot on the...
9 Programs That May Just Fit the Bill
Dec 1 2003 // The December 2002 Insurance Journal “program directory” issue highlighted eight programs that the editorial staff considered to be unique, interesting or tough to find. This year we’ve added one more to...
9 Programs That May Just Fit the Bill
Dec 1 2003 // The December 2002 Insurance Journal “program directory” issue highlighted eight programs that the editorial staff considered to be unique, interesting or tough to find. This year we’ve added one more to...
Motor Truck Cargo & Commercial Auto Physical Damage
Nov 3 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade-Amstar has available a program for motor truck cargo and commercial auto physical damage. Appointed brokers have immediate access; others must call for an appointment. Market offers on hook...
New Market: Long Haul
Aug 4 2003 // Cascade/Amstar has unveiled a new market for long haul trucking, including cargo and general liability. Endorsements – State, ICC and Cargo Liability Filings as required. Appointed brokers have immediate access to...
Long Haul
Jul 21 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar has unveiled a new market for long haul trucking, including cargo and general liability. Endorsements—State, ICC and Cargo Liability Filings as required. Appointed brokers have immediate...
CNA Makes Cargo Insurance More Accessible to Freight Forwarders
Jul 14 2003 // Chicago-based CNA insurance companies has integrated the OMMni.com cargo system of its marine operations with Fountainhead International LLC’s CargoWise® software solution to provide an integrated cargo insurance...
Cascade/Amstar Unveils Long Haul Trucking Market
Jul 2 2003 // California-based Cascade/Amstar has unveiled a new “A” rated market (admitted) for long haul trucking, including cargo and general liability. Policy limits are: $1 Mil Auto Liability & Gen’l...
Arch Insurance Names Belinda Rowan Managing Director of Ocean Cargo
May 16 2003 // Arch Insurance Group, a division of Arch Capital Group Ltd., announced that Belinda J. Rowan has been named to the position of Managing Director, Ocean Cargo, beginning May 27. “In her new role, Ms. Rowan will focus...
American Wholesale Insurance Group Acquires Seaboard Underwriters Inc.
May 2 2003 // American Wholesale Insurance Group (www.amwins.com) has completed the acquisition of Seaboard Underwriters, Inc., a provider of insurance solutions for the transportation industry. Seaboard operates as a managing general...
AIA Says Newly Revised Federal Hours-Of-Service for Truckers Don’t Go Far Enough
Apr 25 2003 // New revisions to the federal rules that govern how long truckers can drive at one stretch and remain on-duty fall short from a public safety perspective, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). The...
Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...
Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...
