2 Major Trends in Work Injuries and Workers’ Comp
While the number of compensable lost-time injuries have declined steadily for more than 25 years, work comp rates have not dropped. Why? Could the cost of injuries be to blame?
While the number of compensable lost-time injuries have declined steadily for more than 25 years, work comp rates have not dropped. Why? Could the cost of injuries be to blame?
Few commercial structures fully meet the applicable jurisdictional building codes and regulations of the county, city, town, borough, village or township in which they are located. Building codes are routinely…
Traveling employees create workers’ compensation coverage nightmares; but many agents are unaware of these travelling landmines until after the injury. The problems arise at the junction of two key concepts:…
Personally-owned autos belong on a personal auto policy (PAP), but occasionally a commercial insured intentionally or unintentionally includes one or several personally-owned auto(s) on its business auto policy (BAP). Commercial…
The “absolute pollution exclusion” may be the most misunderstood and misapplied exclusion in ISO’s commercial general liability policy. Carrier are misapplying for one of two reasons: 1) they really don’t…
Once a policy is in effect and has existed beyond the underwriting period, provisions still exist allowing the carrier to cancel the policy during the policy period. These are often…
Contractual risk transfer is a fact of life for any agent working with construction clients. Your client might be the transferor or the transferee or both on the same job.…
The easy to remember acronym for the five key aspects of reducing the costs of and avoiding work injury is PADRE. Understanding Prevention, Avoidance of lost time, Duration, Relapses, and…
You cannot assume the entity type you insured last year is the same entity type that exists this year. When insuring small businesses, you are fighting against several unseen entities…
Effective June 1, 2017, Insurance Services Office (ISO) introduced the new Miscellaneous Professional Liability Policy (MI 00 01) along with a multitude of endorsements. This is the first in a…