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How to Survive a Business Interruption

How to Survive a Business Interruption

While all business owners want their enterprises to be both productive and profitable, you may not have considered the costs associated with a business interruption. Your business interruption coverage can be added to your property insurance and this form of insurance is critical in keeping your business fully protected. It is impossible to predict every eventuality, particularly the damage incurred when a heavy storm or other disaster...

Why Every Contractor Needs Insurance Protection

Why Every Contractor Needs Insurance Protection

Contractors face many challenges even when a project is moving ahead as planned. General contractors have contractual obligations and the threat of a financial loss if a construction defect claim is filed. In order to guard against losses associated with injuries or other damages, contractors need the protection provided by a product liability insurance policy. We live in a litigious world, and there are law...

Cargo Theft: A Very Real Threat to Your Business

Cargo Theft: A Very Real Threat to Your Business

Recent years have shown cargo theft cases reaching an all-time high, with an average of 79.25 cargo thefts occurring every month in the U.S.A., or about 2.6 each day. Thefts of pharmaceuticals rose 50%, and food or drink loads rose 34% in 2013, as reported by FreightWatch. The increasing rate of cargo theft has led the National Insurance Crime Bureau to establish information sharing procedures....

Protecting Your People: How to Properly Insure Your Employees

Protecting Your People: How to Properly Insure Your Employees

Are the employees of your business properly insured? Unforeseen circumstances, such as dangerous weather systems, earthquakes, fires, nasty accidents or the death or incapacitation of a key person can be extremely costly. As a business grows and changes, adds more staff, or expands facilities, insurance needs will change. Every year, business owners should get a full review of their current business insurances and employee insurances. Key personnel...

Seven Steps to a Safer Workplace

Seven Steps to a Safer Workplace

Business owners are responsible for keeping the workplace safe and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) compliant. But accidents still happen. When a worker, customer, or client is injured, it is not only upsetting but there are often long term consequences. All business owners can reduce risk and maintain a safer, healthier workplace by taking the following seven steps: Ongoing training. Every new employee must...