Insurance at a premium.
Insurance at a premium By Doug Austin Factors that determine commercial insurance premiums Commercial insurance offers protection for unexpected financial losses that can devastate a business. Insurance allows business owners to transfer the responsibility for these devastating losses to their insurance companies in...

Voters need little debate; Debt exclusion, budget OK'd.
Byline: Bradford L. Miner The following correction was published June 24, 2008: NORTH BROOKFIELD - School Superintendent Erin M. Nosek told voters at Friday's annual town meeting the School Department's revenue from incoming school choice students was the highest it had ever been. Because of...

Business briefs.
COLUMN: BUSINESS BRIEFS TELEGRAM & GAZETTE Bloomberg Index Central Massachusetts -0.35 170.08 Volume: 53,918,796 Up: 8 Down: 13 Unchanged: 8 Gainer: Waters Corp. $60.17 +$0.56 (volume of 1.06 million...

Insurance tango; Rate-setting dance has a new twist this year.
COLUMN: In our opinion The annual car insurance rate-setting dance seems to be departing from predictable fancy footwork that usually prevails. The announcement from the Automobile Insurers Bureau of Massachusetts that insurers would recommend a reduction in rates - to an as-yet undetermined level -...

Insuring against terrorism. (Stateline).
Insurance regulators in 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have approved contract language that allows insurers to exclude terrorism coverage from commercial policies. California and New York declined the request by Insurance Service Office Inc., a private firm that filed for exclusions nationwide on behalf of...

Texas high court prevents insurers from backpedaling on coverage for accidental property damage.
Texas high court prevents insurers from backpedaling on coverage for accidental property damage The Texas Supreme Court handed subcontractors, home builders and others in the construction industry a precedent-setting victory in an Aug. 31, 2007, decision concerning the coverage provided by a common type of commercial general...

CSC Signs Services Contract With Chubb.
Deal Follows Successful Collaborative Effort Between the Companies EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Computer Sciences Corporation today announced that The Chubb Corporation has signed a 10-year contract for CSC's property and casualty (P&C) insurance business process outsourcing (BPO) services. Chubb, a CSC software...

South Lane faces lower fire insurance rating.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard CRESWELL - Officials of the South Lane Fire and Rescue District must be feeling snake-bit about now. Since the Cottage Grove, Creswell and rural South Lane County fire districts merged in 2003, the new consolidated district has endured sniping between...

Steady as she goes: expect more of the same for workers' comp in 2007.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's the prediction many experts in the workers' compensation industry are making for 2007. Although rates are stabilizing in many areas of the country and the frequency of claims filing continues its downward trend, key problems that have plagued...

A West Virginia transformation.
When I come upon workers' compensation professionals who, facing a hard puzzle, behave with an intelligence rising to brilliance, I itch to tell you. Step in their shoes. How do you think they're doing? I am writing about the people running BrickStreet, a workers' comp insurer that is transforming...