I’m passionate about selling clients the coverage and protection they need, or at least helping them make good decisions about what they want to self-insure. I have significant concerns that consumers are now, and soon will be getting even less …
An Arizona court ruling stemming from a sheriff’s deputy’s encounter with a shotgun-wielding man says law enforcement officers can claim workers’ compensation benefits if diagnosed with PTSD or other mental conditions because of extraordinary high stressful incidents on the job. …
For a number of years, I’ve done a workshop called “The Adventures of Ace Insura, Claims Detective.” Participants assist Ace in solving a variety of coverage and claims mysteries. Each case has one or more learning points that cumulatively lay …
The California Public Utilities Commission issued an administrative law judge decision imposing $2.137 billion in penalties against Pacific Gas and Electric Company for the utility’s role in the catastrophic 2017 and 2018 wildfires. If PG&E agrees to the modified settlement, …
Insurer Progressive said it intends to hire up to 8,000 new employees in 2020. With an increase in customers and total revenues topping $39 billion, the company said it needs more employees to support growth in auto, property, commercial lines …
The families of a skier and snowboarder who died on the same day at a central Oregon ski area jointly filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking $30 million. The lawsuit filed in late February in Deschutes County Circuit Court contends …
Auto insurance affordability is an important issue for consumers and the industry. Insurers take a wide variety of actions to make auto insurance as affordable as possible for consumers because they recognize that its cost can have a real impact …
Small business doesn’t mean small-in-size when it comes to the commercial insurance market. Direct written premiums ranged between $99 billion and $103 billion in 2013, up from $91 billion in 2011, according to McKinsey & Co. “Small business insurance accounts …
A U.S. labor board finalized a rule that will make it more difficult to hold companies liable for unlawful labor practices by franchisees and contractors, reversing a more worker-friendly Obama-era standard criticized by business groups. The rule by the National …
A pandemic is defined as, “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.” Although the media lives by the motto, “If it bleeds, it leads,” declaring a …
