March 8, 2021
Insurance Journal West Magazine

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Small Business Market; Hospitality Risks Directory; Markets: Homeowners & Auto; Special Supplement: The Florida Issue

In this Issue

• Features
  Earthquake Warning System Rolling Out in Oregon, Washington
  The earthquake early warning system known as ShakeAlert will be...
• Features
  California Commissioner Wants Rate Transparency Rules for Wildfire Risk
  California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has proposed new rules...
• Features
  Fight Brewing over Insurer-Backed California Bill That Includes Autobody Shops
  An insurance industry-backed California bill to create a new...
• Features
  Washington Insurance Commissioner-Backed Bill to Ban Use of Credit Scores Amended
  A Washington bill to ban insurers from using consumers' credit scores...
• Features
  California Bill Would Mandate Minimum Insurance Coverage at Rehabs
  Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, in collaboration...
• Features
  California Mother, Son Arrested for Fraud Involving Aston Martin
  Ahmad Haris Tajyar, 45, and his mother, Malalay Tajyar, 70, both of...
• Features
  Washington Port Commissioner Faces Suit over Helicopter Crash
  Three people have filed a personal injury lawsuit against a Port of...

National Coverage

• Editor's Note
  Retaliation Ranks Tops in 2020 Workplace Discrimination Complaints
  More than half of all workplace discrimination complaints filed with...
• Features
  P/C Insurance Challenges for 2021 Look Much Like 2020’s, Says AM Best
  The U.S. property/casualty insurance (P/C) industry could experience...
• Features
  Federal Flood Insurance Premiums Far From Keeping Up With Expected Losses
  If the nearly 4.3 million residential homes (1-4 units) across the...
• Features
  Many States Lack Flood Risk Disclosure Laws for Homebuyers
  Homebuyers in nearly half of the states including hurricane-prone...
• Features
  Collision Course Body Shops Under Insurance Pressure
  Waseem Tarabishi insists that employees at his San Diego-area...
• Features
  Back in Business: Insurance Pros Ready to Aid Small Business Recovery
  It's been a tough road for small businesses, with a vast majority...
• Features
  Serving the Changing Needs of Small Business Post-Pandemic
  Among the many changes wrought by the pandemic are those transforming...
• Features
  How Home Improvement Projects Impact Homeowners Policies
  Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic had us spending more time...
• Features
  Stay Independent and Control Your Own Your Destiny
  There is nothing wrong with selling your agency at 12-13 times EBITA...
• Features
  Logic & Language and Forms & Facts: Preventing Coverage Gaps
  This column began in 2019 when I wrote a year-long series of articles...
• Features
  Small Businesses Find Optimism with Federal Help
  Times are tough for many businesses but there is still some recent...
• Features
  3 Ways Insurtech Can Help Agents Thrive in 2021 and Beyond
  What if the COVID-19 pandemic had struck in 1980 instead of 2020?...
• New Markets
  My New Markets
  Couriers Market Detail: Risk Strategies' (www.risk-strategies.com)...
• People & Places
  People & Places
  National Steven Levy, the longtime president and CEO of Munich Re US,...
• Business Moves
  Business Moves
  National Arch, Coalition Arch Insurance North America and Coalition...
• Declarations
  Declarations
  Wildfire Help "People who've been affected by a disaster are dealing...