This is usually called the magnus expansion method and has a nice literature in numerical analysis. Kato also used this method to show the existence of solutions in the hyperbolic case. I would say that strong resolvent continuity and a sufficiently big common domain is sufficient in your case. See Section 5.3 in [Pazy][1]. I can also give a related [self-reference][2]... [1]: http://books.google.hu/books/about/Semigroups_of_Linear_Operators_and_Appli.html?id=sIAyOgM4R3kC&redir_esc=y [2]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.6372