Articles by Don Jergler

CEO of Hawaii’s Largest Comp Provider Says to Embrace Predictive Analytics

Getting employee buy-in may be the biggest key in getting a company to successfully adopt predictive analytics and other cutting-edge technologies, said Martin Welch, CEO of Hawaii Employers Mutual Insurance Co. Welch has spent 35 years in the property/casualty industry, …

GOLD Best Agency to Work For – West: Eaton-Provident Group

Best Agency to Work For – West Eaton-Provident Group, Scottsdale, Arizona Family, Fun and Fantastic Wanna have happy employees? Just let them have fun. That seems to be the philosophy at Eaton-Provident Group, a small agency in Scottsdale, Ariz., where …

Could Trouble with Comp Products from Berkshire Affiliates Land in Brokers’ Laps?

Insurance brokers who sold allegedly illegal workers’ compensation products from Berkshire Hathaway affiliates involved in legal and regulatory troubles in New York and California could end up being strapped with liability issues that may not be covered by their professional …

What Climate Change Has to Do with Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis

Climate change will cause more earthquakes. It’s as simple as that. Deniers, start your engines. If that isn’t enough to enflame the smoldering embers of discourse within those ready to pounce on any and all climate change notions they deem …

More Businesses Fear Losing Data than Getting Hacked, Survey Shows

Losing data strikes more fear in businesses than getting hacked. A survey released earlier this month by San Francisco, Calif.-based Wells Fargo Insurance shows 47 percent of mid-sized companies were concerned with losing private data compared with 26 percent worrying …

NAIC Dignitaries Remember Former California Commissioner Kinder

On a recent morning at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting in San Diego, Calif., a group of people with impressive credentials gathered to pay tribute a man they held in high regard. Wesley J. Kinder was a California …

Poll Puts Another Dent in The Belief that Millennials Don’t Want to Drive

Another dent has emerged in the pervasive notion that millennials do not want cars. A survey commissioned by San Francisco, Calif.-based NerdWallet and released today shows that the majority of millennials polled who own a car do not regret their …

‘Game Changing’ Climate Disclosure Guidelines Coming Soon

A global task force’s efforts to create new disclosure guidelines for the world’s financial industry – including insurers in the U.S. and abroad – are far from the first attempt to urge companies to be open with the public about …

California Workers’ Comp Bureau Lowers Rate Filing with Eye on Bills

The governing committee of California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Wednesday approved an amended, and reduced, rate filing for Jan. 1, 2017 workers’ compensation rates. It did so based on the hope that California Gov. Jerry Brown signs two …

More Businesses Fear Losing Data than Getting Hacked, Survey Shows

Losing data strikes more fear in businesses than getting hacked. A survey released today by San Francisco, Calif.-based Wells Fargo Insurance shows 47 percent of mid-sized companies were concerned with losing private data compared with 26 percent worrying about hackers …