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Guest Post: The Insurance Professional’s Guide to Giving Depositions Part 4: Preparing to Testify as a Corporate Representative

Today’s post is the fourth in a series of posts by friend of the Academy, Crystal M. Uebelher, J.D., CPCU. Crystal is an insurance professional and a lawyer. Crystal loves teaching non-lawyers about the law and lawyers about insurance. If …

Guest Post: The Insurance Professional’s Guide to Depositions, Part 3 – Preparing to Testify as a Fact Witness

Today’s post is the third in a series of posts by friend of the Academy, Crystal M. Uebelher, J.D., CPCU. Crystal is an insurance professional and a lawyer. Crystal loves teaching non-lawyers about the law and lawyers about insurance. Last …

Guest Post: The Insurance Professional’s Guide to Depositions, Part 2 – Understanding Your Role in the Litigation

Today’s post is the second in a series of posts by friend of the Academy, Crystal M. Uebelher, J.D., CPCU. Crystal is an insurance professional and a lawyer. Crystal loves teaching non-lawyers about the law and lawyers about insurance. It …

Guest Post: The Insurance Professional’s Guide to Depositions, Part 1 – What to Expect in a Deposition

Today’s post is the first in a series of posts by friend of the Academy, Crystal M. Uebelher, J.D., CPCU. Crystal is an insurance professional and a lawyer. Crystal loves teaching non-lawyers about the law and lawyers about insurance. Many …

Top 10 Work From Home Tips, or How Not to Lose Your Job from Home

Many workers are being asked to do something that some have wanted for years while others have never wanted. It’s time to work from home. Not to worry, we have plumbed the depths of our WAH (work at home) experience …

Caution is based in knowledge, fear is based in suspicion

I’ve been wrestling over what to write here for the last several days. Here is a list of different articles that I ultimately rejected for several different reasons. Why losses related to COVID-19 is not covered on (you pick) policies. …

Many Vehicles, Many Uses, Many Questions

This week’s blog post comes to us from friend of the Academy, Joseph S. Harrington. Joe is a prolific writer, observer, and commentator on the insurance industry. This post is based on his recent Academy webinar by the same title. …

Coronavirus, Pandemics and Workers’ Compensation

This week’s Academy Journal entry comes to us from friend of the Academy, Chris Boggs. Click and check out what he’s been up to. A pandemic is defined as, “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic …

Why I Insurance

In his book, the Infinite Game, Simon Sinek speaks of the elements of an infinite mindset. In part, those elements include a just cause. I see my work in the insurance field as a just cause. A just cause includes …

How should insurance commissioners get the job?

WARNING: This is a long one. Buckle in. Insurance Journal recently published an article detailing what action the Florida legislature is planning to take this year related to insurance. One item in particular caught my attention (so far); Senate Joint …

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