Working on the front lines of the insurance industry, we have unique insight into the trends and events shaping its future. Commentary from the specialists placing healthcare's toughest risks.
A real case showing why brokers’ relationships with underwriters matter: spamming every market to lock out competitors backfired, leaving client, agent, and broker worse off.
How Emergency Evacuation Expense Reimbursement endorsements in general and professional liability policies protect senior living facilities, covering limits, inclusions, and exclusions.
After Hurricane Helene forced the airlift of 100+ nursing home residents, facilities are urged to build robust evacuation plans and insure for the unexpected.
Westwood’s client experience survey earned a Net Promoter Score of 74. Here is what agents praised and the steps Westwood is taking to improve communication.
Poor communication drives many lawsuits against senior care facilities. The How’s Mom app gives families real-time updates, boosting satisfaction and cutting legal risk.
Workers compensation is vital coverage for healthcare and senior living facilities, and Westwood lets agents source it alongside PL and GL through one brokerage.
As #MeToo reshapes workplace scrutiny, Sexual Abuse and Molestation (SAM) insurance is becoming essential risk management for industries from gyms to schools.
A $68 million malpractice verdict against a small New Mexico hospital shows how nuclear verdicts threaten the survival of healthcare institutions and community care.
Why communication with residents’ families is central to risk management in senior living, and how tools like the How’s Mom app help facilities reduce liability.
Runaway medical malpractice jury verdicts, fueled by pandemic-driven social inflation, are driving up insurance rates; a nuanced, humanizing defense approach may help course-correct.
Westwood's five 2024 medical malpractice predictions: rising rates, more risk management, greater use of AI, more alternative risk structures, and continued market consolidation.
Pennsylvania's 2022 Supreme Court decision revived "venue shopping," driving a surge in medical malpractice filings and threatening the state's healthcare providers and insurers.
With Middle East tensions rising, state-sponsored Iranian cyberattacks on US healthcare are increasing, making comprehensive Cyber Liability Insurance an urgent priority for clients.
RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) audits can inflict malpractice-level financial losses on healthcare providers, making RAC Audit coverage an overlooked opportunity for insurance agents.
A Long Term Care Community Coalition study found nursing home residents fear staff retaliation for reporting neglect or abuse, underscoring the need for liability mitigation and SAM insurance.
Digital healthcare's rapid rise in telehealth, remote monitoring and AI diagnostics brings new malpractice exposures and, amid America's litigation culture, uncertain E&O risk for commercial agents.
With the healthcare insurance market in upheaval, GenStar offers stability, strong premium growth and coverage for a wide range of physician and miscellaneous healthcare facility malpractice risks.
Why commercial agents benefit from partnering with a malpractice insurance broker, from a network of underwriters and tailored proposals to expert guidance and added credibility with larger clients.
A look at the healthcare classes, led by telemedicine, that a sampling of top carriers most prefer to insure in 2023, helping commercial agents spot the hottest opportunities in the market.
A profile of GenStar Insurance Services, a Berkshire Hathaway wholesale carrier known for underwriting tough allied healthcare classes like pain management, radiology and birthing centers.
As digital healthcare booms toward a projected $253B, commercial agents must understand the sector's new risks and the coverage gaps that traditional liability and cyber policies leave behind.
Telehealth's growth is fueling more malpractice claims and a harder insurance market, prompting a look at group, protected cell and single parent captives as an alternative.
Social inflation, rising claim costs driven by plaintiff-friendly verdicts and larger jury awards, is pushing up medical liability premiums, a trend accelerated by the pandemic.
Workers are leaving elder care in droves, leaving assisted living and skilled nursing facilities short-staffed and forcing a fundamental rethink of how senior care operates.
With two million vulnerable Americans in senior living and nursing homes, rising litigation and record jury awards make serious liability mitigation essential.
Demographic shifts, staffing shortages and the rise of AI and robotics are reshaping senior living, raising complex new legal and insurance questions for everyone involved.
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