General Industry
April 19, 2023
Trenching and Excavation Safety
It is essential to implement safety measures during trenching and excavation work to help prevent serious injuries and deaths. Especially considering the recent rise in fatalities and penalties involving this type of work, construction employers need to ensure they utilize proper risk management techniques. OSHA Penalties OSHA recently announced new enforcement guidance to deter employers...
April 13, 2023
Hardening Property Market Prompts Difficult Conversations, Lengthy Renewals
Hardening property insurance market conditions mean brokers must start conversations early, endure longer renewal processes, and skillfully deliver potentially bad news to clients, according to Risk Placement Services’ 2023 U.S. Property Market Outlook. Property insurers face reinsurance rate hikes between 30% and 80%, worsening and more frequent catastrophes, and inflated rebuilding costs. They’ve responded by...
April 11, 2023
Rising Workers’ Compensation Expenses Linked to Facility Services Costs
A report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) examining countrywide medical cost trends revealed that health care facility services costs accounted for 40% of workers’ compensation expenses during 2021 and increased by an average of 3% throughout the past decade. Although specific trends varied by facility type, the report found that the two...
April 6, 2023
Searching For a Surety Partner? Look For Someone Invested in Stability for the Years to Come
While insurance products exist to help an insured in the event of a loss, surety bonds are purchased so that a customer can guarantee their work on a particular project will be completed within a certain timeframe and at a reasonable cost. Bonds support everything from a guarantee that a construction project will be completed...
March 22, 2023
Defining an Occurrence in Insurance
Going as far back as the 1973 policy’s insuring agreement, the insurer pledges to pay on behalf of the insured all sums the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury or property damage caused by an “occurrence.” The current CGL form employs simplified language to promise: “We will pay those...
March 21, 2023
Insuring the Climate Transition: How Can the Construction Industry Confront Escalating Storm Damage?
Like every industry, construction isn’t immune to the effects of global climate change. Adverse weather affects 45% of construction projects globally, a 2021 report from the Air Force Institute of Technology found, and results in billions of dollars of additional expenses and lost revenue. Project delays, damaged materials and supply chain shortages are just some of...
March 20, 2023
How Nonprofit Insurance Brokers and Carriers Support the Causes Closest to Their Hearts
Most of us should be able to agree that those who work within not-for-profit organizations are heroes. From nonprofit founders to entry-level workers, they find themselves in this important work because it fuels a personal passion. That passion might include an overarching urge and desire to express benevolence and aid those causes and communities who...
March 9, 2023
A ‘Seismic Shift’ is Coming to Commercial Real Estate, CEO of a Flexible Workspace Giant Says
Employees around the world were forced to adopt fully remote work for the first time when COVID-19 struck. But as the pandemic stretches into its third year, vaccines become more widespread, and hospitalization rates drop, companies have been trying to lure employees back to working in the office full-time once more. JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon...
February 20, 2023
Revealed – Issues Challenging Commercial P&C in Today’s Environment
Commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance carriers have been delivering strong financial performance in recent years despite the widespread disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and other global events, according to a recent McKinsey report. The report noted that premiums have been driven by extensive risk-adjusted rate hardening on a year-on-year basis, resulting in an...
February 16, 2023
Determining Whether to Offer Multiple Health Plan Options
Alongside compensation, health care coverage is often seen as one of the most important benefits a job can offer. And the larger the variety of options available to employees, the more likely they are to find an option that best suits their needs. This is good for employers because employees are more likely to stay...