Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?
Crisis will sneak up on you when you least expect it – as evidenced by how off-guard the current pandemic caught the world.The time to start managing a crisis is before it happens. Until now, [...]
Claims Trends Watch: How COVID-19 is Impacting Incidents by Industry
Every industry has felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – but some have clearly been impacted more deeply than others. Grocery stores saw soaring sales as customers stocked up on supplies. Revenue from [...]
Employers Might Be Convinced the Workplace Is Safe – But Are Employees?
As lockdowns slowly ease, it’s clear that employees are not rushing back to their offices. Employers are doing their part to maintain social distancing, minimize touch points, and step up visible cleaning and disinfection routines. [...]
Claims Trends Watch: How COVID-19 is Impacting Incidents by Line of Coverage
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted just about every aspect of the business world -- including incidents and insurance markets. While it’s difficult to tell what the long-term implications will be, current incident experience offers [...]
Three Tips for Dealing with Pandemic-Driven Risk
By Jim Wetekamp As published in Future of Sourcing A new Gartner survey shows only 12% of organizations felt prepared for the impact of COVID-19 in March. The severity and pace of the pandemic caught [...]
Natural Disaster Planning During COVID-19
By Adam Jacobson As published in Risk Management Magazine June kicks off hurricane season in the Atlantic, and experts claim above-average hurricane and wildfire activity, coupled with new challenges stemming from the global health crisis, [...]
View from the Top
By Jim Wetekamp As published in Business Insurance According to our CEO Jim Wetekamp, networking and participating in peer forums and conversations are proving to be the most valuable assets in our customers’ COVID-19 response. [...]
COVID-19 – why its impact on financial services spreads far and wide
As the UK continues to be gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic and the number of cases – and death toll – rise, it may now appear that what happens to the financial services sector is [...]
How will financial services manage the return to work?
From May 11, a growing number of workers began returning to workplaces as the government seeks to get the UK’s economy on what will undoubtedly be a bumpy road to recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
Insurers in the dock as FCA takes High Court action over BI cover and COVID-19
A High Court action being taken by the Financial Conduct Authority and due in July, should provide up to a million businesses with much needed clarity as to whether their business interruption (BI) claim resulting [...]
7 strategies for managing HR risk amid the Coronavirus crisis
Organizations have made dozens of changes to HR policies in response to the fast-moving coronavirus crisis. Initial concerns about work-from-home directives and restrictions on travel have given way to simply keeping employees safe and the [...]
Covid-19 – is the insurance industry failing to deliver?
Long after lockdown has ended, there could well be ongoing fallout, potentially in the courts, over whether business interruption (BI) claims should have paid out. […]