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Hiscox Study: More Than One-Third of US Workers Feel They’ve Experienced Harassment in the Workplace
Sexual Harassment Tops List as Most Common Form of Employee Misconduct A recent study released by Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, revealed that more than one-third (35%) of employees feel they’ve experienced workplace harassment, 50% of whom said it was on account of their gender or sex. These findings are according to the 2018 Hiscox […]
Emilio Miret (1937 – 2018)
A Personal Tribute As David Louie e-mailed the news, I thought to myself “please, not another heartbreaking obituary, please…and certainly not one with the name Emilio Miret in the title.” These successive months of grave losses from the “golden age” of the independent agent, as many friends have termed it, have set off a sense […]
Insurance Lenders Launch Websites with Enhanced Interfaces
Oak Street Funding and First Franchise Capital, First Financial Bank Companies, have launched six enhanced proprietary websites. “These sites are not only more visually appealing but they also deliver on the companies’ value proposition by providing information to clients that will help them to evolve their businesses”, the Companies argue. “We have seen strong growth […]
OnRisk and AFL Insurance Brokers Form Insurtech Partnership
AFL Insurance Brokers (AFL) and OnRisk, the US-based insurtech startup, have formed a strategic partnership to advance new technology for structuring and placing high value property & casualty (P&C) risk. Under the partnership, AFL Insurance Brokers will become an early adopter of the OnRisk structuring platform, which delivers a CAD-style, graphical software toolset enabling risk […]