Workers Compensation

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the dynamic of the workers compensation insurance marketplace.

When a sole proprietor in Iowa with employees purchases a company workers compensation policy, is the proprietor automatically covered? Or do they have to elect coverage for themselves?

The annual Focus on 5 survey reveals the top unknowns in the workers comp industry. Here’s how leaders are taking proactive steps to answer these questions and keep their organizations ahead of the game.

Workers compensation isn’t the obvious route to agency profitability. But by providing these nine services, it pays intangible dividends to your clients that ultimately accrue to your balance sheet.

When Tom Goss joined his brother’s agency in 1999, he brought a rich corporate leadership background and experience as athletic director of the University of Michigan. By 2000, Goss LLC was the first minority-certified insurance agency in Michigan.

Glatfelter’s new comprehensive workers compensation program provides the option to write an entire account with a single-carrier solution.

Despite several years of ample capacity and rate decreases in the workers compensation insurance market, the persistent labor shortage could present serious challenges in the near future.

To keep up with future trends in workers compensation, independent agent Deb Conway-Plathe says it’s imperative agents continue to have conversations with customers to encourage them to purchase appropriate limits.

Most insurance market cycles are pretty straightforward—yet what’s currently happening in the workers compensation market defies the usual logic.

An agent’s commercial client plans to hire an intern who is not affiliated with a university. The intern will not be paid and will be at the office shadowing an employee for a few hours a week.