October 9, 2015
A new study on worker’s compensation across 17 states shows that reforms sometimes work – and such is the case of sweeping reforms made in California, the report shows. The Workers Compensation Research Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research organization based …
October 5, 2015
CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could be available next year. San Francisco, …
October 5, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA MOC Insurance Services Best Agency to Work For – West MOC: Where Employee Opinions Matter Sometimes being a great place to work isn’t about offering the best salaries, the most time off or the greatest flexibility – …
October 1, 2015
It’s all a masquerade. The business world has not embraced action on climate change as statements from some corporations seem to indicate. So says a new watchdog group out of London. Nonprofit InfluenceMap late last month launched a website, along …
September 30, 2015
Carriers are spending big on advertising, and agencies are working to become increasingly more sophisticated and reach out to more and more people. In the world of insurance, that’s just doing business as usual. But the efforts seem to be …
September 23, 2015
A pair of massive California wildfires that have destroyed more than 2,000 structures are now considered among the most damaging fires in state history, and they could change the way insurers view risk or conduct underwriting in rural areas in …
September 22, 2015
CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could be available next year. San Francisco, …
September 21, 2015
There are no rules. If you can figure out how to quantify a risk and define it, then you can insure it.” Hank Haldeman, president of the board of directors for the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, sounded …
September 21, 2015
There may be nothing more synonymous with Los Angeles County than the tall, waving palm trees that line so many busy boulevards and beach fronts. Yet the towering icons of Southern California have a dark side. Palm trees have been …
September 21, 2015
A California Labor Commission ruling in June that an Uber driver is an employee and not a contractor opens the door to more scrutiny over the rideshare giant’s business model, but that was just the proverbial tip of the iceberg …