Update: ACORD – Big I Forms Arrangement

Last summer, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America announced that member agencies with revenues below $50 million will receive compliementary licenses for use of ACORD forms​. ACORD intends to start charging all end users licensing fees effective Jan. 1, 2020. The Big I member benefit covers the cost of those fees.  Steve Anderson, an insurance technology expert and an at-large member of the Big I New York board of directors, is out with a new blog post about the changes ACORD is making. The entire post is worth reading in full, but these parts relate to the Big I member benefit: [Update] The…

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On Our Mind: Preparing for a Cyber Breach

​By Jim Lombardo, CPCU, AAI, AIM, MBA, AVP of Learning & Development​ It seems like every day there is another notice about a security breach. We've all most likely heard about the biggest ones- Yahoo (3+ billion accounts affected); Marriott (383 million accounts affected) Equifax; Home Depot; Target... the list goes on and on. However, there are so many “smaller" breaches we may not hear about- firms like Blur (a password manager with 2.4 million accounts); Town of Salem Video game; discountmugs.com; benefit mall; Blackrock Inc.; Huddle House; Rubrik and too many others to list here- but I think you get my point. What if something…

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