Data Breach Coverage For Small Businesses
While data breaches at large companies continue to dominate the headlines, breaches involving smaller businesses are also on the rise. According to a 2011 report from Verizon Business of more than 760...
View ArticleNew Underwriting Requirements for Technology Errors and Omissions Insurance...
Select Accounts and Global Technology have a close working relationship to provide competitive products and services for Select’s technology customers. With Select’s Master PacSM product and coverage...
View ArticleEleven Cybersecurity Tips for Small Businesses
Broadband and information technology are powerful factors in small businesses reaching new markets and increasing productivity and efficiency. However, businesses need cybersecurity tools and tactics...
View ArticleHow to Compete for Clients with Large Retailers / eTailers
The fact: the chance are slim to none that any local retail store will ever “beat” the large retailer or etailer, like Amazon. Large retail monsters have massive marketing budgets, a strong online...
View ArticleReduce Cyber Risk and Data Breach – Change Password
One way to help lower personal and business cyber risk is to avoid using easy-to-crack passwords. SplashData, a password management application maker, recently compiled a list of the 25 worst passwords...
View ArticlePaperless Insurance Now Offers Coverage in New York
SAN FRANCISCO-based independent insurance brokerage Paperless Insurance Services (PIS INC), Inc. has started offering business insurance products in the State of New York, PIS INC announced Thursday....
View ArticleMedical Identity Theft
What is medical identity theft? How can it put a patient in jeopardy? How are data breaches involved? Healthcare fraud is costing American taxpayers up to $234 billion annually, based on estimates from...
View ArticleRisk Transfer: Managing 3rd Party Relationships
Introduction: Case Scenarios - A painter’s scaffold collapses resulting in severe injury to the painter and a pedestrian. The painter had no insurance. The building owner is held liable for all losses....
View ArticleInsuring Cloud Computing
While cloud computing may seem vague and confusing, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies recently completed a working definition for the term after years of work and 15 drafts. So what...
View ArticleBusiness Insurance Market Update
The hardening insurance marketplace has led to a great deal of success for us in a variety of our niches recently. We continue to develop new products at the same time. Below are several items we...
View ArticleAvoiding Liability on Your Website
The Internet provides a rich environment for creative communication. Used with care, it can assist in increasing product safety. But in their enthusiasm to capitalize on its power, some companies are...
View ArticleWhat Every Business Owner Should Know About Credit Card Protections
Protecting Against Consumer Identify Theft The use of credit and debit cards and electronic payments has become a way of life for public and private businesses and their customers. With this,...
View ArticleEnhanced Cyber Coverage
Did you know that the average organizational cost for data breach in 2011 was $5.5 million and the average cost per compromised record was $194*? With a growing body of law directed at protecting...
View ArticleProtection for Water and Sewer Districts
Serving the public is a serious, round-the-clock responsibility. It’s your job to protect, plan for, and serve the needs of your community as it grows. And it’s our job to protect you with thoughtfully...
View ArticleHow to Protect Against Identity Theft in College
By Menachem Wecker In interviews ahead of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which runs through the end of October, cyber security experts—both here and abroad—said identity theft is a serious...
View ArticlePaperless Insurance Now Offers Coverage in New York
SAN FRANCISCO-based independent insurance brokerage Paperless Insurance Services (PIS INC), Inc. has started offering business insurance products in the State of New York, PIS INC announced Thursday....
View ArticleMedical Identity Theft
What is medical identity theft? How can it put a patient in jeopardy? How are data breaches involved? Healthcare fraud is costing American taxpayers up to $234 billion annually, based on estimates from...
View ArticleRisk Transfer: Managing 3rd Party Relationships
Introduction: Case Scenarios - A painter’s scaffold collapses resulting in severe injury to the painter and a pedestrian. The painter had no insurance. The building owner is held liable for all losses....
View ArticleOur Angle: Mental Health
Dmitriy Glazer, a Partner at Paperless Insurance Services Inc., has written more than 25 mental health risks. Located in California, Paperless Insurance Services is an environmentally-friendly...
View ArticleThe Next Insurance Storm is in The Cloud
Interesting article about cyber liability insurance and exposures on National Insurance Law Forum: The highest profile cyber incidents – such as major data breaches at Sony, Zappos, Global Payments,...
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