Posted by Cathy Kravec on January 08, 2020
Cybercrime is all over the news lately. Reports of data breaches affecting hundreds of millions and sometimes even billions of customers and account holders have sadly become routine. While cyber-attacks on corporations and other large organizations tend to get most of the attention, financially successful individuals and families are equally appealing targets.
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Posted by Mary Benko on October 22, 2019
With headlines regularly spotlighting giant data breaches at Fortune 500 companies, sometimes involving millions — in a few cases even hundreds of millions or billions — of compromised customer accounts, it’s easy to assume that privacy breaches are a concern only for the largest organizations.
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Posted by Pam Fleischer on October 02, 2019
Hardly a week goes by these days without news coverage of the latest mass shooting somewhere in America. Last year alone, there were 340 mass shootings in this country, and that number will likely be even larger this year. The locations and other details may vary, but these violent episodes otherwise seem to have a numbing sameness.
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Posted by Bridget Day Kozub on September 10, 2019
As employers face a growing tangle of laws and regulations governing mandated employee leave, an entire niche has arisen in recent years to help them cope: the absence management industry.
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Posted by Matt Griswold on August 14, 2019
Do you really know why you are paying what you are paying, or even more importantly, what your insurance is protecting you from? Let’s talk a bit about why you need to change your thinking and how starting an insurance brokerage has opened my eyes to these and other insurance-related issues.
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Posted by Edward McNamara on July 25, 2019
If I asked you to give me an example of a catastrophe, most people’s minds would immediately turn to an earthquake, tornado, or a major fire that destroys an entire neighborhood. Those are definite catastrophes that can affect large numbers of people. But what if I asked you more directly, what would rock your world enough to be considered a personal catastrophe? Those answers can be much more varied and subjective.
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Posted by Ed Purcell on June 25, 2019
We live in a culture that increasingly prizes wellness. Americans are working out more, smoking less, drinking water instead of soda and replacing processed foods with fresh fruits and vegetables. It is happening! Nevertheless, there’s recently been what might be called a small media backlash against the idea of corporate wellness.
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Posted by Edward X. McNamara on November 10, 2017
When the cost rises for your insurance, does your broker blame the market? Does your broker advocate more for the insurance carrier than you? Sorry to report that you don't have a broker. You're working with an agent. You need to recruit a QB for risk management. Someone who can read the entire field of play, understand the playbook and corresponding coverages, know the right personnel for any given situation, and can lead a team around or through barriers to improved performance. Someone who is a "true" broker. Learn more...
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Posted by Ed Purcell on October 11, 2017
Our client Brian Smith, CEO at Banyan Technology, shares insights into considerations to be made and counsel to be sought when scaling an enterprise for robust growth.
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Posted by Ed Purcell on September 22, 2017
What’s your broker’s 3-year plan to contain costs and retain services?
Companies without any sort of strategic plan in place for employee benefits are destined to fall short for their employees – even a goal of “status quo” requires some sort of multi-year strategy, as many competing external (and often internal) forces simply don’t allow for things to stay the same. Learn more...
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