Tag - covid

Tips For Small Business on how to better manage business risks

Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan: Welcome to Small Business Lifeline, Crain's podcast to navigate the coronavirus crisis. My name is Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan and I am an editor with Crain Communications. There are still so many risks with reopening and running a business in the world we live in. So today I'm going to take just 10 [...]
Insurance veteran launches platform for unsupported small businesses

Insurance veteran launches platform for unsupported small businesses

by Bethan Moorcraft When insurance and risk management veteran Tom Pegues decided to launch Insuri - a new small business risk and insurance consultancy - in the middle of a global pandemic, some industry peers may have (quite understandably) questioned his timing. Mid-pandemic is “certainly not the ideal time” to launch a business, Pegues admitted, especially when [...]

Panel’s Move to Allow Some BI Litigation Consolidation Will Be Unmanageable, Market Watchers Say

WASHINGTON - Merging some coronavirus-related business interruption lawsuits into centralized cases against four carriers would be as unmanageable as an industrywide consolidation of all the litigation filed by COVID-19 impacted businesses, insurers, trade groups and market observers said. The seven-judge panel of the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation rejected a request by attorneys for [...]