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… provides easy-to-follow steps for organizations to develop while implementing a robust BCP. These plans should limit exposure, risk and downtime for the organization. The quicker a business can get up and running after a disaster, including supply chains, distribution and manufacturing facilities, stores and corporate offices, the less time and revenue it will risk losing. Let’s take a look at a simple four-step process to building a BCP: Step 1: Risk Assessment Start by conducting a risk assessment and determine the risks and exposures you’re trying to mitigate. A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)

… COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic is already manifest in the renewals underway now. The specific coverage changes in property policies directly related to Coronavirus have essentially been a tightening of contamination exclusions, adding specific exclusions for communicable disease, or a significant lowering of limits for those policies that do provide some coverage. A more significant direct impact has been on the underwriting process. With underwriters and their modelers working from home, the process and flow of renewals have slowed dramatically. On-site risk control visits to provide underwriters with information they need to assess risks have been suspended.

Executive Order Makes it Easier For Essential Workers in California to Obtain Workers’ Compensation Benefits On Tuesday, May 6, 2020, Governor Newsom signed an executive order that will make it easier for essential workers who contract COVID-19 to obtain workers’ compensation benefits. This order creates a rebuttable presumption that California’s essential employees who contract COVID-19 in the course of their employment are eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. This order will broaden benefits to all sectors, as long as the employee tests positive for COVID-19 by a physician. In addition to healthcare and first responders, the executive …