Risk & Insurance
When the term ergonomics comes up, it often conjures images of spaceship-shaped mouses or keyboards that seem more at home in a sci-fi movie than on an office desk. New office equipment may be the most common way workpla...
Posted: Aug 31, 2020
COVID-19 hit employees hard as most of the workforce was required to transition to work-from-home. But perhaps nothing hit employees harder than the fact that the ratio of employees to facilities immediately became 1:1. It was hard e...
Posted: Aug 31, 2020
Long-term living and senior care facilities are under intense pressure. Their vulnerable populations, characterized by advanced age and an array of comorbid conditions, have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Posted: Aug 31, 2020
Facebook’s $650M Settlement Over Facial Recognition Passes Key Milestone The Case: A key feature of Facebook is “tagging” — identifying people in a photo. It allows those people to easily see the image an...
Posted: Aug 30, 2020
COVID-19 is here to stay. Early stay-at-home orders that sought to curb the spread of the virus failed to make it obsolete. Now, as states reopen, it’s all about containing the spread. Governors are issuing guidelines and...
Posted: Aug 28, 2020
For Dr. Mike O’Neill, the director of global workspace research and global workspace strategy at Haworth, his interest in ergonomics did not have a conventional starting point. Looking back at his August 26 keynote speech at the virtual Nat...
Posted: Aug 27, 2020
It happens to the best of us; literally. A new assignment, a promotion, ownership of a product launch that the company is investing in heavily. It’s what makes an insurance professional an
Posted: Aug 27, 2020
The business traveler after COVID-19 will be very different. Not only will their travel be subject to new restrictions and safety measures, they will also look different. That’s because we’re likely to see a significant shift in the demogra...
Posted: Aug 27, 2020
Cyber security threats come from technology and user behavior, and to date, there’s no single foolproof solution that covers both. Advertisement
Posted: Aug 26, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic drags into the six-month mark in the United States, it has become as much of an economic crisis as a public health crisis. This is true even as new unemployment claims decline in recent weeks. However, as industries...
Posted: Aug 26, 2020
Posted: Aug 25, 2020
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Posted: Aug 25, 2020
The insurance industry is finding out what a difference a quarter makes, especially one that was marked by a pandemic vast enough to bring down the U.S. economy. Advertisement
Posted: Aug 25, 2020
Lots of words get overused and many of them misused. “Liberal” and “conservative” are two words that many of us misuse, even the great New York Times. No space for that here, but feel free to call me if you’d like the mental exercise of a discussi...
Posted: Aug 25, 2020
Lots of words get overused and many of them misused. “Liberal” and “conservative” are two words that many of us misuse, even the great New York Times. No space for that here, but feel free to call me if you’d like the mental exercise of a discussi...
Posted: Aug 25, 2020
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many large car insurers realized that their policyholders were not driving to work, school, practices, shops and more as social distancing and shelter-in-place became the norm. In order to reflect this...
Posted: Aug 25, 2020
If workers’ comp professionals weren’t already hopping on the tech-train, they certainly are now as much of the workforce transitioned to telecommuting when COVID-19 collided with our realities back in March. Digitizatio...
Posted: Aug 24, 2020
When it comes to learning about the workers’ compensation industry, there is a plethora of resources already at your fingertips. From earning designations to webinars and other one-time resources, there are plenty of way...
Posted: Aug 22, 2020
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Posted: Aug 21, 2020
Peruse the website of the Equestrian Estates homeowners association in Wichita, Kansas, and in one frame you see a picture of a teen rider and her well-groomed mount jumping a stream. Another pic features a toddler feeding ducks. Yet anothe...
Posted: Aug 21, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education has been working with Davidson College to track the reopening plans f...
Posted: Aug 21, 2020
A hardening market, a persistently low interest rate environment and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have all prompted many companies to turn to captives for their insurance needs. That’s not to mention the added pressure of reductions i...
Posted: Aug 21, 2020