These unprecedented times have left many of us with only one way to shop: online. Many online businesses have benefited from consumers “sheltering in place” with an influx of buyers shopping via apps and the internet. I am sure that I…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Liability, Prevention, Risk Management, Technology
Tags: applications, commercial, credit card, credit cards, cyber, cyber insurance, cyber security, cybersecurity, fraud, hackers, Internet, internet safety, liability coverage, liability insurance, online, online payment, online safety, online shopping, protect online privacy, retail
Most of us have seen the meme going around that refers to a couple of life lessons that have reversed course over the past couple of decades: don’t get in the car with strangers and don’t meet people from the…
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Category: Accident, Auto, Business, Central, Liability, Personal, Technology
Tags: auto accident, auto claim, auto insurance, auto policy, bodily injury, car accident, car insurance, carpool, coverage, driver, insurance, liability claims, liability coverage, liability insurance, Lyft, passengers, Personal, personal auto insurance, personal auto policy, personal policy, policy, professional liability, property damage, ride-sharing, sharing economy, transportation network, transportation network platform, travel, Uber
Commercial insurance is not one-size-fits-all, but there are features that even very different businesses have in common. Offices are an exposure that nearly every business has, from accounting firms to web engineers, and from one-person offices to a ten-story office…
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Category: Business, Central, Commercial, Liability, Risk Management
Tags: building, building contents, building coverage, business income coverage, commercial, commercial building, Commercial general liability, commercial insurance, commercial policies, commercial property, exposure, exposures, general liability, liability, office, office building, offices, property
Subrogation is a common term in the insurance industry but not a common one outside of it. So what is subrogation?
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Category: Business, Claims, Commercial, Home, Household Inventory, Liability, Personal, Prevention, Saving Money, Service
Tags: analytics, artificial intelligence, coverage, damages, premiums, products liability, subrogate, subrogation, third-party
One of the toughest parts of commercial insurance is identifying all of the exposures a business might have. I met with a new client yesterday, Darth Vader, who is the Operations Manager for a business called The Empire. It sounds…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Employees, Liability, Risk Management, Technology
Tags: Builders Risk, business, catastrophic event, cause of loss, cloud storage, commercial, commercial building, commercial insurance, construction, coverage, cyber, cyber security, data, deductible, employee, employees, exposure, exposures, inland marine, liability insurance, risk, risk assessment, safety, underwriter, workers' compensation, workplace, workplace safety
High school and college-age workers are an important part of the employment pool; they take your order at fast-food restaurants, bag your groceries, keep your community lawns looking nice, and lots of other things. They are a growing part of…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Employees, Liability, Service
Tags: employer, employment, hire, hiring young adults, summer jobs, summer work, teen jobs, teen work
If the wind was strong enough to pick up Dorothy and Toto and pull her entire house into a tornado and send them to the magical Land of Oz, there is no telling what it could do to your property….
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Category: Claims, Home, Household Inventory, Liability, Personal, Prevention, Risk Management, Weather
Tags: hail, home, home maintenance, home repair, homeowners policy, property damage, rain, Safety Tips, spring, storm, storm damage, storms, tornadoes, tree, tree damage, tree damage property damage, trees, wind, wind claims, windstorms
Light industrial is a term you often hear when discussing commercial insurance, but what does it mean? Typically, light industrial refers to operations such as machine shops, sheet metal work (shop only, no installation), and manufacturing of metal goods,…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Employees, Liability, Loss Control
Tags: blanket additional insured, business income coverage, commercial, commercial building, commercial insurance, commercial property, coverage, coverage gap, electrical safety, electronics, equipment, equipment breakdown, equipment breakdown coverage, exposure, food handling, food service industry, liability coverage, light industrial, loss control, loss control inspection, machines, manufacturer, product liability exposure, protection, safety, workplace, workplace safety
There are a few homeowner insurance coverages that almost everybody has but very few think about. Personal liability is one of those coverages and even lower on the totem pole is medical payments coverage. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t…
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Category: Central, Claims, Liability, Personal
Tags: bodily injury, comprehensive protection, coverage, coverage limits, exclusion, homeowners insurance, homeowners policy, medical payments, Personal, personal liability coverage, protection, slip and fall, slip and fall accidents
I’ve been working in the insurance industry for 18 years now. Currently, I hold a position as a Personal Lines Underwriter with Central Insurance. However, when I obtained my very first position as a personal lines customer service representative at…
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Category: Business, Central, Claims, Communication, Employees, Independent Agents, Liability, Personal, Service
Tags: career opportunities in the insurance industry, independent agent, independent agents, independent insurance agent, insurance, insurance agent, insurance careers, insurance careers month, insurance industry, insurance underwriter, personal lines underwriter, underwriter