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Recording Now Available: Understanding How The Vaccine Will Impact Your Business

Recording Now Available! California COVID-19 SB1159, AB685, OSHA: Workers’ Compensation Best Practices, and Understanding How The Vaccine Will Impact Your Business EPIC teamed up with RTGR Law to deliver Workers’ Compensation best practices surrounding California COVID-19 SB1159, AB685, and OSHA. RTGR represents employers in the most challenging claims and controversies.  This Webinar Covers: Employers’ Compliance with SB1159, AB685 and OSHA Regulations California’s Surge in COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Claims Circumstances to Accept or Deny COVID Claims Impact of a Vaccine on a Worker’ Compensation Claim PLAY RECORDING Meet our Speaker: Thomas A. Richard Founding Partner at RTGR …

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Claims Support in the Aftermath of Severe Winter Weather

EPIC is committed to supporting and protecting people and their businesses impacted by the severe winter weather across the United States, especially in Texas and the Midwest. Our clients’ safety and wellbeing are our top priority and we want to ensure you can reach EPIC for assistance with claims – even if some of our people are without power. If your representative isn’t available, please email for immediate assistance. We look forward to helping clients with their claims and getting their businesses back up and running.

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EPIC Adds Allen Baker as Senior Risk Consultant

Hire strengthens Energy Construction capabilities in Birmingham EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants announced today that Allen Baker has joined its National Energy Construction Team as a Senior Risk Consultant. Baker will be based in Birmingham, Alabama. The addition of Baker positions the Energy Construction team to continue to strategically focus on growing market share in key verticals. Baker brings 15 years of experience advising clients with complex risk on insurance and risk management concerns. Prior to joining EPIC, Baker was a senior vice president with Valent Group. Focus and dedication to clients has propelled Baker’s substantial growth and established …

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Contractors Facing Rising Rates as Insurance Markets Continue to Harden

EPIC Senior Vice President Mary Grandy Featured in Associated General Contractors of California Constructor Magazine As seen in Constructor Magazine | By Mary Grandy When a new year begins, we tend to have a renewed hope for what the coming year may hold. That rings truer than ever for 2021, when everyone is anxious to put 2020 as far behind in the rearview as possible. Unfortunately, just like that cheap champagne from New Year’s Eve, 2021 is likely to have some lingering hangover effects that business owners need to brace themselves for. Even before the world was left reeling by …

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EPIC Welcomes Dan Lorber to the National Private Client Practice

Dan Lorber brings 25+ years of experience in the Bay Area to EPIC. EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants announced today that Dan Lorber has joined as managing principal in the national Private Client Practice. In this role, he will serve as the main point of contact for select clients, reviewing their current coverages, providing guidance on appropriate changes, educating clients on exclusions and exposures and advising them on industry trends. Serving the Bay Area, Lorber brings more than 25 years of experience to the team. He spent 12 years as a licensed sales producer for Allstate Insurance before becoming an …

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Law Firm Benefits, Risk & Insurance: 21 Predictions for 2021

2021 has kicked off with the promise of a new year. The events and changes of 2020 will have a lasting impact on the way law firms conduct their business this year and for the foreseeable future. While making predictions can be challenging in stable environments, the lasting impact of last year make it even trickier in 2021. The EPIC team of Law Firm Experts is taking on that challenge with our 21 predictions for what law firms should expect for their benefits, risk, liability, and changing workforce dynamics in 2021. Remote Working Working from home became the new normal …

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OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements

National Construction Practice Safety Alert The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reminds employers that the agency will begin collecting calendar year 2020 Form 300A (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses) data starting on January 2, 2021. Some employers must submit the form electronically by March 2, 2021, and the completed form must be posted in a common area where notices to employees are usually posted from February 1 to April 30. Electronic submissions are required by establishments with 250 or more employees currently required to keep OSHA injury and illness records and …

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Social Inflation: Defining and Mitigating an Emerging Risk

Considered a significant emerging risk for the insurance industry, social inflation refers to the trend of rising insurance costs resulting from increased litigation, plaintiff-friendly judgements and higher jury awards, which are ultimately fueled by social trends.1 Specifically, anti-corporate sentiment and significantly increased jury awards against corporate policyholders (i.e. “nuclear verdicts”). More broadly, social inflation is the term used to describe growth in liability risks and costs related to litigation trends.2 In 2019, there were 74 class action settlements totaling $2 billion and four mega-settlements greater than $100 million, representing 45% of all settlement dollars …

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