March 22, 2021
Insurance Journal West Magazine

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Manufacturing; Markets: Restaurants & Bars, Boats & Marinas; Corporate Profiles — Spring Edition

In this Issue

• Features
  Video Surveillance Leads to Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges Against California Woman
  Veronica Catalina Cortes-Ambrosio, 53, of Madera, Calif., was charged...
• Features
  California Comp Virus Claim Volume Plummeted in February
  The wave of COVID-19 claims that hit the California workers'...
• Features
  Oregon Lawsuits Seek $1B from Pacific Power over Wildfires
  Two new lawsuits filed in Marion County, Ore., seek more than $1...
• Features
  State Farm Returning $400M to California Auto Customers
  State Farm is returning $400 million to California mutual auto...

National Coverage

• Editor's Note
  Flexible Work Options
  Insurance agency managers may need to reassess the future of the...
• Features
  P/C Insurers Improved Profitability in Year of Coronavirus: AM Best
  Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. property/casualty (P/C)...
• Features
  Transactional Risk Insurance Hits Record High Despite Pandemic: Marsh Report
  After a dramatic downturn in the second quarter of 2020 due to the...
• Features
  Pandemic Losses for P/C Insurers Will Take Years to Determine: Fitch
  Incurred pandemic losses for U.S. property/casualty insurers...
• Features
  Winter Storm to Break Insurance Records; Other February Storms
  February saw a spate of winter storms in the United States, including...
• Features
  Insurance Industry Got Closer to Manufacturing Clients During Pandemic
  The U.S. manufacturing industry is on the rebound from effects of the...
• Features
  Insurers Bail As Boat Business Booms
  The year was a good one for boat manufacturers. With heightened...
• Features
  Managing Risk by Training Restaurant Employees
  Restaurants are risky businesses. They take more cash than you would...
• Features
  Risk on Tap for Craft Brewers in a Pandemic World
  Over the past decade, the craft brewing industry has been thriving....
• Features
  The Inflation Specter Looms for Property/Casualty Insurers
  Inflation, defined as the rate at which prices for goods and services...
• Features
  Due Diligence Pitfalls and Solutions
  Mergers and acquisitions continue to occur at a very fast pace,...
• Features
  My New Markets
  NFIP and Private Flood Market Detail: Grand General Agency...
• Features
  Errors & Omissions and An Agency’s Value Proposition
  When you go to an errors and omissions (E&O) education program,...
• Features
  A New Kind of Startup
  It is estimated that entrepreneurs created between 6,000 and 8,000...
• Features
  4 Progressive Jobs Insurance Agencies Will Hire in 2021
  When it comes to insurance agency hiring, producers and account...
• Features
  Marine Market Delivers Challenges for Buyers in 2021
  As if dodging the punches of a global pandemic isn't hard enough,...
• People & Places
  People & Places
  National Global insurance broker Hub International reported that...
• Business Moves
  Business Moves
  National One80, Cannasure Insurance Services One80 Intermediaries has...
• Declarations
  Declarations
  Colorado Bill "You have no idea how little I care about who that...