Expansion of Workers’ Comp for COVID-19 Created Narrow Benefit in 6 States December 21, 2020 By Jim Sams While at least 17 states have passed laws or issued orders that expanded access to workers’ compensation benefits for employees...
How Kindness & Giving Prevailed in a Year Fraught with Challenges December 21, 2020 By Bill Ross This year has been unusually challenging, to say the least. We’ve been thrust into a virtual life of Zoom work...
How One MGA Is Helping Nonprofits Manage a Tough COVID-19 Year December 21, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield When he started building Convelo Insurance Group, founder and CEO Josh Lamberg likely never imagined that the managing general agency...
If You’re Not Growing, You’re Shrinking December 21, 2020 By Chris Burand This familiar euphemism has so much truth embedded in it. Like most robust age-old truisms, humans – and in particular,...
IICF Raises More Than $880K, Honors Gallagher at Annual Northeast Benefit Event December 21, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) raised more than $880,000 at its 14th annual Northeast Benefit Event, held virtually this...
Today’s U.S. Property Insurance Environment: Lloyd’s Perspective December 7, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson While the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed business activity around the globe, for underwriters in the Lloyd’s market who were in...
Use Values and Vision to Attract Talent December 7, 2020 By Peter van Aartrijk Some 20 years ago, an independent agency owner in a small, upstate New York town told me how difficult it...
Email: Your Digital Front Door December 7, 2020 By Leeann Nicolo In an uncertain world, email might feel like an old and easy, reliable friend. Email is used to stay connected...
Rising Lawsuits Over Lack of Diversity Pushing Insurers to Look Closer at Recruiting, Succession Practices December 7, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn U.S. insurers are taking a closer look at the recruiting and succession practices of corporate customers, worried about mounting lawsuits...
Logic & Language and Forms & Facts: ‘Thy Toilet Runneth Over’ December 7, 2020 By Bill Wilson Anyone who has read my “When Words Collide” book or my blog or attended any of my seminars and webinars...