The average household leak can account for nearly 10,000 gallons of water wasted every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The good news is that water damage losses can be prevented or easily mitigated by installing water detection devices in your home.
When winter sends an arctic blast across much of North America, home and business owners can increase monitoring to prevent damage from frozen pipes. Follow these tips to prevent your pipes from freezing in the winter, and learn what to do if you experience a frozen pipe.
It is an unfortunate reality that in trying times some people will attempt to take advantage of situations for personal gain. Be alert to scams including (1) phishing emails that purport to provide help or solutions to the coronavirus/COVID-19 situation, but are actually intended to induce a click that leads to ransomware, (2) price gouging, and (3) fake charities.
In light of COVID-19 and state and local stay-at-home orders, many businesses have greatly increased the number of remote workers. Firsttime remote workers—and some seasoned remote workers—need to be aware of hidden pitfalls in the gadgets and apps they are using while working from home.
By governmental command or voluntary decision, businesses of all kinds have been altering or limiting operations or closing their doors entirely. Often the business decisions are made apart from any thought of the potential insurance implications. In particular, businesses with commercial property insurance policies may not have been considering whether business interruptions coverage would apply. There are steps that businesses can take now to best position themselves to preserve whatever coverage they have.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, business interruption and civil authority claims rose. In this episode, it addressed tips for providing notice, the amount and types of claims policyholders filed and requests for information from the insurance industry, similar historical events, and the barrage of expected insurance litigation coming our way.
The CARES Act is a $2.2 trillion fiscal policy response to help American citizens and businesses struggling with the severe impact from the coronavirus pandemic. The law created several important programs to help provide liquidity to small and midsize businesses to cover payroll or other business expenses. Each program carries its own set of restrictions based on employment size and other variables. The intention of the new law is to help businesses operating on Main Street, and in some cases that might include some family offices and their portfolio companies.
The internet and mobile networks continue to hold up well in an unprecedented surge of people working, studying, and streaming from home. But amid the COVID-19 quarantine, there is increasing concern over how long the infrastructure undergirding the internet and mobile connectivity will hold up. As family offices around the world face the new reality and economic landscape of COVID-19, they must also consider how reliant they are on the current connectivity and think about contingency planning for the loss of connectivity.
Given the far-reaching business impacts of measures already taken to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus, many companies are looking to their insurance policies for potential responses to the ongoing financial loss. This guide provides an overview of some key coverage, claims, and risk management areas that are currently top of mind for businesses and insurers.
As of the week of April 6, there continue to be diverse opinions among leaders within the United States on which policies and procedures will provide both a safe environment for employees and allow productivity to return to levels that are closer to those generated before the COVID-19 crisis. This Executive Summary provides an overview of the initial patterns to the way in which most organizations are examining their Back to Work policy and procedural choices.