Oct 2, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption
CALIFORNIA’S CANNABIS industry is getting long-sought tax relief after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 564, rolling back the state’s excise tax on cannabis sales from 19% to 15%, effective Oct. 1. The new law reverses an automatic increase that took effect in... 
Sep 29, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption
AT SOME point, the odds are that a company will be affected by some form of employee theft or outright fraud. Fraud can severely crimp a company’s finances and put the firm in a serious bind if the theft is large enough. With technology, fraud has in some ways become... 
Sep 20, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption
OSHA WILL inspect a workplace for a variety of reasons, including following a worker injury and always after a worker’s death. Inspections may also occur randomly or as part of a program aimed at a particular industry that OSHA has decided to target. Another way an... 
Sep 11, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption, Uncategorized
A NEW SURVEY has found that in 40% of ransomware incidents in the U.S., CEOs or other executives were physically threatened if their organizations did not pay the ransom demanded by hackers. The findings in Semperis’ “2025 Ransomware Risk Report” highlight other... 
Sep 3, 2025 | Business Insurance, Business Interruption
THE AMERICAN Trucking Associations has asked Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to clarify how potential federal cannabis rescheduling would affect mandatory drug testing for truck drivers. In an Aug. 14 letter, ATA said it is “deeply concerned” that reclassifying... 
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...