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Make Sure Your Safety Equipment Fits Women on Your Team
Perhaps you remember the embarrassing scenario for NASA in early 2019, when the space agency was forced to cancel its first-ever all-woman spacewalk because they didn’t have two suits on the International Space Station that fit them. While most people were shocked,...
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If Your Firm Is Sued for Discrimination, Act Fast to Check EEOC Complaint
Employers that are hit with a discrimination complaint must act fast to compare the allegations in the lawsuit to the earlier complaint the worker filed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. If the employer can find that the allegations in the complaint...
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Why Your Business May Need Pollution Insurance
Many businesses that produce some type of pollutant throughout the course of daily business operations don’t know they are doing so. Others know they are producing pollutants and have processes and safeguards in place to reduce their release into the environment. A...
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Off-the-clock Work Ban Can Save You from Legal Troubles
Wage and hour lawsuits are on the rise, usually with non-exempt employees claiming they weren’t paid either for overtime or for work they may have performed before or after their shift. But, if you have ironclad policies in place, you can greatly minimize both the...
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How to Prepare for Possible PG&E Power Shutdowns
PG&E has warned California residents and businesses that it may shut down the power grid for as long as five days for large portions of the state when there are high-wind conditions during the dry fire season. That’s because PG&E’s infrastructure was found to...
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Annual Insurance Review is Crucial to Your Growing Business
One of the biggest mistakes owners of growing businesses make is not keeping up their insurance coverage to account for the expanding assets and potential liabilities. Let's say you started your business 10 years ago with just a small space and computer desk. Today,...
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Employee Behavior, Habits Can Thwart Heat Illness Prevention
Every summer thousands of American workers suffer from heat illness after working in hot conditions and not taking the necessary precautions to protect themselves. Often employers have not put in place safeguards and have failed to train their workers in heat illness...
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Business Growth Can Lead to Increased Risk
As the economy continues expanding, companies need to be careful about properly managing their risk, according to a report by Advisen Inc., an insurance research and data firm. Increased activity typically means proportionally additional losses. For example, more...
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Property Coverage for Businesses with Changing Needs
Some businesses have very stable property insurance needs as the value of their non-building assets, equipment and inventory doesn’t vary much during the year. Other types of business experience wide variations in the value of their property. Florists tend to carry...
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This Insurance Can Help You Survive Another Business’s Disaster
In October and November of 2011, floods inundated large parts of central Thailand, including thousands of factories that made everything from automotive parts and hard disk drives to eyeglass lenses and air conditioners. In addition to the human and economic cost in...
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