The Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia held its 119th Annual Meeting a couple of weeks ago at the beautiful Amelia Island Resort. I had the most fun at the annual corn hole tournament held by the Young Agents Committee on the beach, and I learned the most at the presentation by John Immordino on Cyber […]
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Avoid, Deny, Defend – What is it?
Avoid, Deny, Defend is a program developed by the ALERRT Center at Texas State University for training people about what to do if they are involved in an active shooter incident (an individual is actively engaged in trying to kill other people). According to an FBI study of such incidents, there were 160 from 2000 through […]
Read more...Georgia Does Well at IIABA Legislative Conference
The state of Georgia was well represented in the awards handed out at the recently completed Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers Association’s annual Legislative Conference. The old reliable when it comes to awards, Georgia’s Young Agents Committee, walked away with the first ever InsurPac Catalyst Award. This is a new award that recognizes a state Young […]
Read more...Cyber Security Revisited
I began the year by writing two posts about the challenges and opportunities presented to insurance agents and agencies by cyber security issues. During the last week of February, I attended a webinar that focused on what agents and agencies should be doing to protect themselves. (Click here for a link to that presentation.) Next […]
Read more...Cyber Security in 2016 – The Opportunity
Last week, I wrote about the challenges facing independent insurance agencies to protect their confidential data from hackers. The reality of agencies’ exposure to cyber attacks was made clear at a cyber security event hosted by Travelers last Fall. At that event, the head of Travelers’ cyber insurance unit stated that 60% of all cyber attacks in […]
Read more...Cyber Security in 2016
I hope all my readers had a safe and enjoyable Holiday Season. I thought it would be a good idea to start the New Year by writing about a topic that was the subject of a lot of commentary last year and promises to be even more of a hot topic this year. The massive […]
Read more...Thanksgiving Thoughts & Georgia’s YAC
Last year at this time, I wrote a post that expressed my thanks to my readers for their interest in my blog posts and encouraged you to post comments about what I have written or suggest topics of interest for future posts. It’s that time of year again and I want to say thanks to my readers for their […]
Read more...What You Missed at the IIAG Fall Conference
I was able to spend some time last week at the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia Fall Insurance Extravaganza, which was held in Macon. Next to the opportunity to network with other agents and company representatives (there were over 150 in attendance), the best thing about this event is that it is free for IIAG members […]
Read more...What Businesses Does the Fair Labor Standards Act Cover?
My posts during the past two weeks have been about the proposed new salary standard for the administrative and executive exemptions from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the issuance of an Administrator’s Interpretation by the federal agency responsible for enforcing the FLSA of what is required for a worker to be properly […]
Read more...Avoiding the Payment of Overtime is About to Get Much More Expensive
In a blog post this past March about which employees must be paid overtime for working more that 40 hours in any one work week, I mentioned that President Obama had directed the U.S. Department of Labor (the “USDOL”) to review the exemptions from the overtime pay requirement and that most knowledgeable commentators expected the minimum […]
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