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Category: Business Insurance News You Can Use

Latest Tech Tools Help Boost Your Business Productivity, and Contractual Insurance Info

Key Person Insurance Helps Protect Your Business In small businesses, the death or disability of a key employee is difficult to overcome. His or her share in the business normally transfers to heirs. This can cause problems for businesses that may not want a new partner or cannot afford to buy out heirs. To avoid this problem, many business owners enter into a buy-sell agreement....

How to ID and Deal with Jerks in the Workplace

MARKETING Viral Wannabe? Here's How and Why Things Catch on Why do some ideas, products, brands and people "go viral," attracting attention and gaining pop culture status while others don't? In his book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, examines the science of popularity and attempts to explain why things catch on....

Banner Ads are so Yesterday, So What's Hot Today? Plus Property and Liability Coverage

BOP Offers One-Stop Property and Liability Coverage Today's businesses require both property and liability coverage to avoid uninsured losses. Fortunately, those small and medium-sized business that don't provide professional services can obtain both with a Business Owner's Policy (BOP). A BOP provides both property and liability coverage in one package, so you can avoid purchasing separate policies. With packaged coverage, you benefit from the lower...

Hotels: Your Office Away From the Office, and Tort Cost Info

Rising Tort Costs May Mean Your Business is at Risk According to a number of major insurance carriers and other experts, tort costs - those costs associated with defending and paying liability claims - are on the rise. Here are just a few of the latest concerns for business owners. The United States Liability Insurance Group (USLI) states the average cost to defend an employment...

Business Insurance News You Can Use: Companies Still Need Brick and Mortar 'Motherships'

'Green' Upgrades May Mean Checking Your Coverage As Kermit the Frog once said, "It's not easy being green." Despite many obvious advantages to the greening of your commercial space, green upgrades may mean your current insurance coverage could be insufficient in the event of a loss. Over the last few years, green building improvements have continued to help building owners cut costs. A number of...