Home Health Care Booming

Home Health Care Booming

According to this ABC News Article, the home health care industry is booming and growing much faster than the economy as a whole. By 2020, the ranks of home health and personal care aides will have swelled by more than 1.3 million—a 70 percent increase from 2010,...
Craft Brewing Gaining in Popularity

Craft Brewing Gaining in Popularity

According to the Craft Brewing Association, the volume of craft brews increased 18% in 2013. Over the last 10 years it has averaged better than 10% a year. Craft breweries present difficult challenges to insure properly. Liquor liability for one, but other things you...
Workers Compensation Insurance for Ohio Companies

Workers Compensation Insurance for Ohio Companies

Workers compensation issues sometimes gets overlooked in the insurance program for Ohio based companies. Ohio is one of the few states that are still monopolistic, which means workers compensation insurance is only available through the State of Ohio’s program....
University Risk

University Risk

Scandals like what happened at Penn State a few years ago serve to highlight the growing liability issues facing schools and universities in this country. Many insurance companies are tightening the wording of their policies or increasing deductibles, or in some cases...
Insuring Non-Profits

Insuring Non-Profits

Insuring a non-profit organization can be tricky. With no real “owners”, few employees, lot’s of volunteers, Boards of Directors and a constituency of the public which is frequently underserved and underrepresented, there are a lot of moving parts....
Manufacturing in the Central Ohio Region

Manufacturing in the Central Ohio Region

The website www.columbusregion.com has some interesting facts about the manufacturing industry in central Ohio: There are nearly 1,800 manufacturers in the Central Ohio region The sector contributed $10 billion to the regional economy Over the last decade,...