Jul 27, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Operations
ONE MISTAKE you want to avoid if you incur property damage to your business is to wait too long before filing the claim. The owners of Dallas Plaza Hotel learned this the hard way when a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the business had waited too long to file... 
Jul 17, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption
1. Data is a valuable asset Your data is almost certainly worth many times more than the physical equipment that stores it. A standard property policy would not respond in the event that this data is damaged or destroyed. A cyber policy can provide comprehensive... 
Jul 10, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Operations
THE OCCUPATIONAL Safety and Health Administration has overhauled its Site-Specific Targeting (SST) inspection program, marking a major shift in how the agency identifies and prioritizes workplaces for inspection. Effective May 20, 2025, the new guidance applies to... 
Jul 3, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Operations
AFTER WINNING approval in California State Assembly, legislation that would temporarily reverse a controversial cannabis excise tax hike that took effect July 1 passed out of key Senate committee in a unanimous vote in early July. Assembly Bill 564, introduced by... 
Jun 29, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption
EMPLOYERS ARE increasingly facing lawsuits over how they handle background checks during the screening process for job applicants. For a lesson in what can happen, take the recent class-action lawsuit filed against a Whole Foods Market Inc. store in Fresno,... 
Jun 20, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption
THE HOUSE Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture in early June passed a spending bill that could dramatically reshape the U.S. hemp industry. The bill, which focuses on a number of unrelated spending issues, would redefine hemp under federal law to ban cannabis...