Norman Ives News

Summit: How Cannabis Brokers Can Get SMB Clients Better Insurance

Big multistate operators often get the bend-over-backward treatment from all service providers, but what are insurance brokers looking to get the same treatment for their small-to-midsize client to do? It turns out, there’s a lot that can be done to …

Takeaways from Auditable Policies and Cannabis Conversation

When states declared cannabis operators essential during the pandemic, that kept cannabis dispensary doors open and boosted sales. That was fine and well, but it also had the effect of pushing up the costs of auditable policies – giving some …

Insuring Cannabis Summit: Capacity, Vaping Among Issues in Industry Going Forward

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring Cannabis Summit on Nov. 19. If there is one big problem in the insuring cannabis space – where issues include …

More Americans Consider CBD, Giving Insurance and Other Ancillary Businesses a Push

Most people in the cannabis space expect CBD to be big, but a new report highlights the potential of the cannabis product, which has some in the insurance community already stepping up their game. New Frontier Data on Thursday issued …

COVID-19 Will Have Biggest Impact on Cannabis Space, Poll Shows

COVID-19 will have the biggest impact on cannabis and insurance the rest of this year and into the foreseeable future, according to the majority of participants in Insurance Journal’s April 15 webinar “Insuring Cannabis: From the Mechanics to Seeing Through …

2020 Predictions from Cannabis Industry Experts: More Insurance Business

More legalization in more states. More product liability risks. More regulations. More M&A. More of many things is what insurance professionals involved in the cannabis industry can expect in 2020. Insurance Journal asked four experts watching the cannabis and insurance …

Worldwide Facilities Adds Ives as Broker, Cannabis Specialist in Washington

Worldwide Facilities has named Norman Ives to the management and brokerage team in its NutraRisk division, which specializes in cannabis, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements insurance coverage. Ives, who is based out of Washington, has more than 20 years of insurance …