COVID-19 2020, 2021……and its tenacious continuation On March 13, 2020 the President declared a national emergency concerning the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. As we enter into 2022, the coronavirus persists to evolve with viral variants on a global scale. Centers of Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) has continued to track and update the number […]
December 28th 2021
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In June 2021, Cal/OSHA passed the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for COVID-19 Protection. This standard brought new regulations to non-medically related industries not already covered by Cal/OSHA’s Aerosol Transmissible Disease Standard (ATD). This standard was set to expire on January 14, 2022, but the Cal/OSHA standards board re-adopted the ETS with a few changes on December 16 […]
December 21st 2021
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cyber insurance market has hardened considerably, with major changes to capacity and premiums in the first half of 2021.
August 18th 2021
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Placement capacity for high wildfire areas remains extremely limited and expensive relative to the balance of the property space after four consecutive years of large losses. While placement has been difficult for businesses such as wineries and other agriculture-related businesses during this time, many other industries, as well as families, are experiencing the insurance repercussions […]
August 6th 2021
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The history of establishing a workers’ compensation (WC) system in the United States started during the Industrial Revolution, driven by an increased public awareness around unsafe working conditions and a need to change the way workplace injuries and deaths were compensated to injured workers and their families. In 1911, the U.S. saw the enactment of […]
June 14th 2021
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“Conversely, we believe the next frontier of value creation is to design and manage PE portfolios as a business ecosystem. In this approach, which is largely unexploited, a PE firm orchestrates a network of relationships between some of its portfolio companies, linking previously unrelated goods and services across industries, and helping the companies unlock new […]
June 10th 2021
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