Effective on July 1, 2024, businesses operating in California will have to comply with new workplace violence measures. The law, signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom on September 20, 2023, is designed to help protect workers from workplace violence.
Read MoreProtect businesses and individuals in the entertainment industry from potential legal claims with liability insurance.
Read MoreOnline shopping may work for clothes but not for commercial event liability insurance and special event insurance. Convenience might end up costing you far more when it comes time to make a claim.
Read More“Self-insurance” suggests “self-reliance” to some and “self-assured” to others. But when it comes to event liability insurance and special event insurance, it borders on "self-delusion."
Read MoreIn the live event production industry, 2011 and 2012 are remembered for four terrible disasters. However, out of those tragedies came a new dedication to "safety-first" best practices.
Read MoreIn the wake of weather-related disasters around the world, weather and event production are increasingly and inextricably connected. But as the climate changes, event liability insurance is staying one step ahead.
Read MoreInsurance has something in common with Agatha Christie and John Grisham novels: an intriguing and often inscrutable cast of players. You’re likely familiar with your insurance agent, but he or she is just part of a highly specialized group, each of whom makes the hidden engine behind an event liability insurance or special event insurance policy work.
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Have you noticed a lot more insurance company commercials on television lately? Progressive’s ruby-lipped Flo, AFLAC’s sputtering duck, and GEICO’s gregarious gecko have become celebrities in their own right, joining the stalwart tropes of State Farm’s good neighbors and Allstate’s good hands. Madison Avenue is responding to a crowded and competitive insurance market at the moment, one with high stakes — according to a U.S. Treasure Department report, total direct written insurance premiums reached $1.27 trillion in 2015...
Read MoreBetween 60 and 90 days before the anniversary of an insurance policy, an insurance agent will usually sit down with their client to discuss any changes in the customer’s business or market sectors, to see if their insurance needs have changed, before drawing up a new policy quote.
Read MoreWe’re live-event and special-event specialists, but we’re also human, driven by a complex range of motivations. One of those is the understandable desire to make the best deals we possibly can. (Does that sound like someone else we know?) Psychologists have extensively analyzed our need to feel like we win every situation, from Black Friday sales to negotiating a raise at work. But the best outcomes are the ones where winning also produces a positive outcome for others.
Read MoreThere is a memorable moment in the classic film The Graduate, when, at a party, one of his father’s friends leans close to Dustin Hoffman’s character, the hapless Benjamin Braddock, and sums up a possible way forward for him in a single, almost whispered word: “Plastics.”
Read MoreYour sound system is hanging perfectly from the trusses on either side of the stage, your lighting equipment is flown brilliantly from the trusses, your video wall is standing as the backstop to the stage. It’s all there, ready to go after this event to the next show. But you can’t touch it. That’s because it’s now part of a crime scene.
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