Are Your Employees a Flight Risk?
It’s hard to find and keep great employees. Just when you relax a bit, thinking you’re fully staffed and everyone’s happy, someone gives notice. Or perhaps an applicant you’ve offered…
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Back to Basics – What is Coinsurance and How Do I Describe it to My Clients?
Coinsurance may be the least mentioned yet easily explainable clause in both commercial and personal property and other policies. You will find coinsurance clauses in many types of policies. These…
Back to Basics – What’s New in Premises Liability Exposures?
Recent settlements and jury verdicts against property owners and managers hit with premises liability claims continue to climb. Whether your clients own a tavern, a manufacturing plant, manage apartment complexes,…
Back to Basics – Insurers Increasingly Imposing Warranties and Safeguards on Commercial Property Policies
An interesting post on LinkedIn by risk management consultant Jack Schwartz, managing director at Davis + Gilbert Risk Management, caught my attention. The issue, according to Schwartz is that insurers…
Understanding Dog Bite Liability and Coverage Issues
Approximately 4.5 million dog bites occur in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to DogsBite.org, from 2005 to 2017, 433 Americans…
An Agent Call to Action: Underinsurance
Is it time to re-visit the methodology used by agents to determine replacement costs and/or re-construction costs? How confident are you that the real property replacement values that you develop…
Professional Liability Exclusions Can Create Uncovered Claims Under Commercial General Liability Policies
The Coronavirus created many growth opportunities for today’s commercial and residential contractors. Now is the time for agents to query their contracting clients to ensure their clients have made no…
Problems of Insurance to Value Forefront in the Insurance Industry
Statistics don’t lie, and all across the internet recently we see articles about underinsured homes throughout the U.S. After a loss is a terrible time to discover your insured’s policy…
Listing Your Insured’s “Doing Business As” (DBA) May Have Unintended Consequences
If you incorrectly name your insured on any policy, your insured may find he or she does not have coverage. After a loss is the worst time to learn that…
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