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How COVID-19 is Impacting the Home Insurance Industry
By Bill Martin Accidents at home don’t disappear in a pandemic, but they do require home insurers to make some critical adjustments. The auto insurance industry has been busy developing relief plans to return unexposed premiums and support their customers financially through COVID-19. Home insurers have a different opportunity to help. Homeowners are taking this […]
Why the Feds Need to Set Up Business Interruption Insurance
By Ray Kegnabb About once a generation, the U.S. insurance market encounters a crisis that demands a federal response. In the 1960s, it was severe uninsured flooding. In more recent memory, it was the catastrophic terrorism of September 11th. Yet another protection gap has been revealed in recent weeks, as the COVID-19 pandemic shutters thousands […]
How to Help Employees Return From Working From Home
By Carol Barkes Remember change is hard on our brains. By now many people have somewhat settled into working from home and will have a fight or flight response to “being released back into the wild.” Have a plan that you allow your team to help create, and that you clearly think out and share […]
Insurers’ donation provides relief to Big ‘I’ members
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) has announced that Foremost® Insurance and Bristol West® Insurance have donated $500,000 to the Trusted Choice® COVID-19 Relief Fund in response to the economic and operational challenges the coronavirus crisis has presented to independent agencies. The grant will be dispersed directly to independent agencies […]