Our vision is to provide a platform for markets to quickly share information like carrier info, geographic availability, limits, and other details. It allows them to stand out in a crowded marketplace.

In the market guide booklet, you’ll find market details, as well as interesting facts you may want to share with your clients. You may even find a new E&O market for your own agency here! We hope you find this guide to be a useful resource for placement of your professional liability accounts.

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In this webinar hosted by ¾ÅÉ« Editor in Chief, Andrea Wells, we address how the coronavirus crisis affected the workers’ compensation landscape, current workforce trends and what they mean for the market, and opportunities and challenges for the comp line going forward.

What You’ll Learn:

• How COVID-19 crisis impacted workers’ compensation.
• Challenges for injured workers, carriers, and agents and brokers in today’s market
• What’s to come for the rest of 2021 and beyond.

Panelists:

David Chmiel is senior vice president, and the national director of claims for global insurance brokerage HUB International. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the risk management space. At HUB, he is responsible for the firm’s claims advocacy and business growth. Chmiel’s claims team integrates with risk services and aligns with all of HUB’s specialty practices, including transportation, entertainment, financial services, real estate, construction, hospitality, cannabis, agribusiness and healthcare. He also is a Worldwide Broker Network regional leader.

Nancy Germond is the president of Insurance Writer, a consulting firm located in Phoenix, Arizona. With more than three decades of risk management experience, her unique insights and abilities help businesses better understand and manage their risk. She has authored scores of risk management-related articles, white papers and has consulted and presented to both public sector and private sector insurance organizations.

Rick Poulin, FCAS, CPCU, leads the Business Insurance Workers Compensation product team at Travelers. In this role, he collaborates with underwriting and actuarial partners to steer the long-term vision, direction and priorities associated with the workers compensation product.

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CLIPS participants represent a cross section of U.S. P&C insurers that includes many of the top 10 commercial lines companies and the top 25 insurance groups in the U.S. The most recent CLIPS survey showed that twenty four 2020 aggregate U.S. commercial insurance prices increased almost 10%, the highest Q2 increase reported since 2003.

We thank Willis Towers Watson for sharing this report with our audience.

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There is a growing chorus of voices crying out that cities and towns are responsible for the actions of their police departments.

In what ways can a municipality or police department be held liable for the actions of their government departments or police departments?

This conversation, presented by ¾ÅÉ«’s Academy of Insurance, speaks to these difficult questions.

Join Academy Director, Patrick Wraight as he moderates this conversation with our panelists:

Brennan Quintus, CEO North Dakota Insurance Reserve Fund, the source of risk services for North Dakota cities, counties, school districts, and other political subdivisions.

Nancy Germond, Owner, Insurancewriter.com, Insurance Educator. With more than three decades of risk management experience for cities, school districts, law enforcement and private industry. First risk manager of Prescott, Arizona.

Joseph Harrington, Owner, Citizenwriter.com, Insurance Educator. For more than 21 years, was with the American Association of Insurance Services, a national insurance advisory organization and statistical rating bureau.

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We thank Confirm BioSciences, a leading provider of comprehensive screening tools and solutions, for sharing this new report with our audience.

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We thank USI for sharing this report with our audience.

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Download this report for list of companies with highest disclosed discrimination penalties, repeat offenses, largest individual penalties, analysis of penalty by type and more.

We thank Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First for sharing the release of this new report with our audience.

“It is dismaying that more than half a century after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 there is still so much discrimination. Figuring out how to eliminate institutional racism, sexism and other forms of bias is a daunting
task. Yet part of the solution is to make sure that instances of abuse are not kept secret.” – Philip Mattera

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Published by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the state is facing an epidemic level of opioid-related overdose deaths and shares its findings in this latest report as it seeks to put an end to opioid abuse.

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The report contains numerous insights, such as:

• During the 2015–16 school year, 79 percent of public schools recorded that one or more incidents of violence,theft, or other crimes had taken place, amounting to 1.4 million crimes, or a rate of 28 crimes per 1,000 students enrolled.
• During the same year, 47 percent of schools reported one or more crime incidents to the police, amounting to 449,000 crimes, or 9 crimes per 1,000 students enrolled.
• In 2015–16, about 69 percent of schools recorded one or more violent incidents of crime, 15 percent recorded one or more serious violent incidents, 39 percent recorded one or more thefts, and 59  percent recorded one or more other incidents.

Download this report today for more details about the safety of our nation’s schools.

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• increased risks and costs to the insured
• costs to the uninsured
• steps your agribusiness customer can take to reduce risk

A very interesting read, including relatable scenarios, for those serving the agribusiness.

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Download this report for the key findings behind the increase in workplace fatalities.

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