After checking email and reading articles or books, using social media sites is the third most popular activity on the Internet, and the second most popular on mobile devices.

Social media connects brands and businesses to their target audiences, driving greater awareness, revenue and loyalty. Among social media users, 86% follow brands and 57% are more likely to buy from those brands.

When I remodeled a house years ago, I decided that the most expensive words known to man were, "While we’re at it...." Then a co-author and I spent two years having a team of researchers look at 2,500 corporate disasters and realized the most expensive words are actually, "We have to do something...."

Like a growing number of people in the American West, naturalist William Simpson is intimately familiar with wildfire. He lives in California’s rural Siskiyou County where overgrown grass and brush routinely fuel hot-burning and deadly wildfires.

Inflation was running hot even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, driven by higher commodity prices, supply-chain interruptions, and high energy prices. The war in Ukraine caused further price shocks for a wide range of commodities, energy and food.

For the savvy insurance professional, there’s nothing quite like getting together with like-minded individuals and discussing some of the latest innovations and nuances going on in the industry. And lucky for us all, in-person events are growing in number after the last two years of uncertainty.

State Farm recently announced that it has invested $1.2 billion into the ADT Inc security company, for approximately 15 percent equity and a move to support new home insurance advancements. The partnership between the two companies allows the insurer to imagine new forms of coverage.

Flood maps used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency are out of date and understate the risks to homes and businesses from flooding and extreme rain triggered by climate change, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said. Those risks are in focus after flooding in Jackson, Mississippi, overwhelmed the city’s main water treatment plant a week ago, leaving more than 150,000 state-capital region residents without safe water.

This is a call to action. It’s time for baby boomers to shake off the feeling that we have done our work and now it’s time to relax. Whether you’ve been aware of it or not, our generation’s collective lifestyle is causing our planet to be unlivable.

When new homeowners close on a house, there is a need for the home’s title to switch to their names. Title agencies, such as ABL Title Insurance Agency, tend to have professional liability insurance policies to protect them in the event something is amiss.

On May 25, Rhode Island became the 19th U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana. Earlier this year, Mississippi passed legislation to allow for medical marijuana use, bringing the total number of states that have authorized ­medical cannabis to 37. The continued push to legalize marijuana is no surprise.

In December of 2019, The Institutes, a nonprofit insurance industry thought leadership and education organization, closed on its acquisition of Risk & Insurance.

Have you heard that old saying, ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’? It definitely makes my heart go pitter-patter. I absolutely love supporting leaders and solving the nuisances in the absence and disability management space. Conversely, ask any people leader, and I’m sure that you will get a mixed bag of emotions because this is a challenging area to navigate.

If you are reading this article, chances are you are familiar with Leave of Absence and Workplace Accommodations. However, you still have some questions, right?

The human accomplishments that happened before the widespread use of email are numerous. To name just a few: Pizza was invented. Mozart wrote symphonies. People built spacecraft, flew them to the moon and walked on the lunar surface.