With harvest wrapping up and the holidays just around the bend, we’ve entered a season full of popping corks and raising glasses. Vineyards and wineries fall under Central’s manufacturing vertical, which encompasses a wide range of businesses, including metal goods,…
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As cyber risks evolve and become more threatening in scope, they come at an increasing cost to both the public and private sectors. The past two years have seen several significant cybersecurity incidents. In 2020, the Solar Winds hack breached…
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Category: Business, Central, Commercial, Cyber, Personal, Prevention, Technology
Tags: business, cyber, cyber risk, Cyber Suite Coverage, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, phishing, ransomware, US Department of Homeland Security
Contractors have enough items to juggle without adding insurance into the mix; however, insurance-related issues are often unavoidable and, in some cases, misunderstood. Sure, it’s easy enough to determine how much coverage is needed for tools and equipment and it’s…
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Category: Business, Claims, Commercial, Liability
Tags: bodily injury, business, commercial, commercial umbrella policy, commercial vehicles, contractors, Employment Practices Liability Insurance, equipment breakdown coverage, general liability, liability insurance, professional liability, property damage, subcontractors
When I’m completing a risk management review for one of our commercial partners, the most common area of losses we discuss are fleet claims. Whether your company has one vehicle or 100, having drivers out on the roadway poses a…
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Category: Auto, Business, Claims, Commercial, Liability, Loss Control, Risk Management, Technology
Tags: accident investigation, business, car camera, commercial, commercial insurance, company drivers, company vehicles, fleet claims, fleet management, fleet performance, fleet safety program, fleet tracking, liability, risk management, telematics
If you’re the proud owner of a new business – or even just kicking around the idea of hanging your own shingle – you’ve probably realized that there is a lengthy list of items and issues to address. From startup…
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Category: Business, Claims, Commercial, Financial, Liability, Risk Management
Tags: assets, business, business auto policy, Business Income - Loss of Use of Designated Auto Coverage, business income coverage, business income loss, business insurance, business inventory, business owner, commercial, commercial building, Commercial general liability, commercial insurance, commercial liability insurance, commercial policy, commercial property, commercial umbrella policy, equipment breakdown coverage, errors and omissions, independent agent, inland marine, inland marine insurance, loss prevention, professional liability, risk transfer
Data breaches, hacks, and email fraud are hitting businesses of all sizes. It’s not just the big corporations like Equifax and Marriott International—all companies need to prioritize cybersecurity. According to one report, two-thirds of SMBs suffered a cyberattack in…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Education, Employees, Prevention, Technology
Tags: business, business owner, cyber, cyber attack, cyber crime, cyber insurance, cyber insurance coverage, cyber security, cybersecurity, data breach, data defense, data plan, employee, employee scams, fraud, fraud alert, fraud emails, hacker, hackers, preparedness, technology, training
The last four months have been some of the most taxing and pressurized months I have seen in my 35 years calling on business owners. It’s hard enough to start a business and keep it up and running, but add…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Employees, Prevention
Tags: business, business interruption, business owner, business shutdown, CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, commercial, coronavirus, COVID-19, owning a business, small business
In my blog post, Protect Yourself While Shopping Online, I shared how to protect yourself as a consumer. Now, let’s talk about protecting your customers and yourself as a business owner. If you have any kind of online store where…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Liability, Prevention, Technology
Tags: business, business owner, commercial cyber, computer, computer attack, cyber crime, cyber extortion, cyber insurance, cyber insurance coverage, cyber risk, cyber security, cybersecurity, data breach, fraud, hackers, home-based business, Identity recovery, identity theft, Internet, liability, liability coverage, online, online presence, online shopping, retail, retailer, technology, website
If you’re like many of the people I’ve spoken with over the past couple of weeks, your life is beginning to return back to a revised sense normalcy, which is a good thing considering you’re probably starting to run short…
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Category: Auto, Business, Claims, Commercial, Home, Household Inventory, Liability, Personal, Prevention, Umbrella
Tags: Adequate coverage, adequate protection, agent, annual insurance review, business, business owner, independent agent, independent insurance agent, insurance program, insurance review, liability exposures, owning a business, Personal, personal assets, protection, umbrella, umbrella policy
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
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