Wallingford Business Insurance: Challenges with Marketing to Children Soft-drink producers have fallen under investigation in recent years for their marketing tactics. Many beverage producers, including Monster Beverage Company and 5-Hour Energy, have been accused of unfairly marketing their allegedly dangerous energy drinks to children. For over two years the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been cracking down on the … Read More
Hartford Business Financial Planning: Top Corporate Charitable Givers
Hartford Business Financial Planning: Top Corporate Charitable Givers While charitable giving has been relatively low in the years following the recession, the last two years have seen an upturn in contributions made by corporations and large businesses. Most financial analysts expect full recover to take at least another four years for charities and foundations to regain the stability and productivity … Read More
Hartford Contractors Insurance: Protecting Portable Company Assets
Hartford Contractors Insurance: Protecting Portable Company Assets Hartford contractors face a myriad of risk exposures in their daily operations, but the most common risks involve transportation of employees, equipment and materials. Company property can be a huge financial investment, the loss of which could be devastating on a number of financial fronts. Not only would the property need replacing, but … Read More
Connecticut Food Manufacturing Insurance: Contaminated Product Recalls
Connecticut Food Manufacturing Insurance: Contaminated Product Recalls Food manufacturing is inherently a high risk environment regardless of the scale of your operation. Whether you are a multi-national mass producer or an artisan edibles crafter food contamination is an increasingly large concern. As any Connecticut food manufacturing organization is aware, safe food production practices are highly regulated both federally and locally … Read More
Wallingford Financial Management: Withstanding Economic Instability
Wallingford Financial Management: Withstanding Economic Instability Over 10.5 million unemployed Americans are still searching for work as we move forward into this recession recovery period. The last few years have seen a significant regeneration of employment opportunities over all. However, a recent report released by the National Employment Law Project indicates that the quality of new job growth may neither … Read More
Hartford Healthcare Risk Management: Assessing Cybercrime Exposure
Hartford Healthcare Risk Management: Assessing Cybercrime Exposure A recent notification from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to healthcare providers warned that the healthcare industry faces high risks of cyber security breaches. A non-profit organization called SANS Institute has warned the healthcare industry for a while that they were not well-prepared to fight growing cyber dangers. They presented hundreds of scenarios … Read More
Hartford Commercial Property Insurance: Withstanding Harsh Weather
Hartford Commercial Property Insurance: Withstanding Harsh Weather Recent flooding and storms throughout the Northeast are posing severe threats to commercial property owners and managers. Hartford businesses are no stranger to the constant threat of winter storm induced flooding and the summer wildfires that can ensue as the weather warms. Natural events pose many threats to commercial property holdings ranging from … Read More
Why You Need Wallingford Commercial Auto Comprehensive Coverage
Why You Need Wallingford Commercial Auto Comprehensive Coverage While not all companies may anticipate their needs for commercial auto insurance coverage, businesses do benefit from obtaining coverage protecting all company utilized transportation. Wallingford Commercial Auto Comprehensive Coverage can be particularly instrumental in protecting company assets from risks beyond collision, property damage and injury. Comprehensive coverage can help manage out of pocket costs … Read More
New Haven Financial Planning: Individual Charitable Giving
New Haven Financial Planning: Individual Charitable Giving Last year Zuckerberg gifted 18 billion shares of Facebook stock worth roughly $992.2 million to a Silicon Valley Community Foundation maintaining the title of America’s largest donor. He is also the youngest billionaire to make the largest annual contributions to charity, out-giving ageing tycoons Warren Buffet and Nike founder Phil Knight in their … Read More
Hartford Business Insurance: Executive Orders for Equal Compensation
Hartford Business Insurance: Executive Orders for Equal Compensation In anticipation of the likely dismissal of his proposed compensation legislation up for discussion in Senate, President Obama is prepared to issue and executive order barring federal contracting organizations from prosecuting employees who discuss their pay. The order effectively eliminates punishment and retaliation for employee discourse about earnings, in hopes of generating … Read More