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Your New Year Insurance Checklist
As 2021 gets underway and while you’re making New Year’s resolutions, you should also resolve to review the state of your business’s insurance program. The best way to do that is to start by reviewing your enterprise’s activities in the past year and how they may...
Commercial Insurance Rates Continue Climbing
DESPITE THE ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, commercial insurance rates are continuing to move higher across the board, with the exception of workers’ compensation. A new report by online insurance exchange MarketScout found that in the third quarter of the year the highest...
Telecommuting and the Wage and Hour Dilemma
WITH THE coronavirus pandemic forcing so many people to work remotely, and with mobile technology allowing them to work from anywhere, your employees may be working when they are off the clock. They may feel pressured to do so or maybe they just want to get their work...
What Companies Are Doing for Holiday Parties
ONE OF the hallmarks of the holiday season is the company Christmas party, but with the COVID-19 pandemic in hyperdrive, many companies are rethinking their plans. A number of businesses have cancelled their parties altogether, but other managers feel that in light of...
Cal/OSHA Conducts Sweeps, Proposes Huge Fines
CAL/OSHA has been conducting sweeps of employers in California to root out those who are not protecting their workers from COVID-19 exposure. The agency targeted companies in industries that have a heightened risk of exposure to the coronavirus, which resulted in 11...
Can Employers Require Their Workers to Vaccinate?
AS THE COVID-19 pandemic rages on and more employers bring staff back to the workplace, many businesses are considering implementing mandatory vaccination policies for seasonal flus as well as the coronavirus. A safe and widely accessible COVID-19 vaccine would allow...
Workplace Accidents Cost Money, Period!
EMPLOYEES ARE your most valuable assets, but many businesses overlook the importance of having a workplace safety program in place to protect them. Loss control is about employers caring for their workers’ safety. Successful loss control programs are means of reducing...
Rate Filing Expands COVID-19 Surcharge Tiers
THE WORKERS’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has amended its 2021 rate filing to make its earlier recommended COVID-19 surcharge more equitable. The Rating Bureau is leaving unchanged its overall recommendation that benchmark rates be increased an average of 2.6%...
Protecting Your Business During Wildfires
THE WILDFIRE danger continues growing in California, but it’s not only homes that are being burned to the ground. Hundreds of business owners have seen their facilities succumb to the flames, leaving nothing but charred skeletal remains. If you have a business in an...