Yearly Archives: 2019

On Our Mind: The Weird, Unusual, & Crazy

By Jim Lombardo, CPCU, AAI, AIM, MBA, AVP of Learning & Development​​ Over my thirty…err, many years in the insurance industry, I handled numerous claims - usually in the “fender bender" or “small house fire" category. I've had my share of larger claims where my clients suffered big financial, personal and/or professional losses and we were there to help them, as best as we could, to get their lives back together again. For that I am very proud and humbled. The weird, unusual or just plain crazy loss notice crossing my desk sometimes made me laugh, and some made me wonder if our clients have…

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Meeting with Speaker Heasties

On Wednesday, November 20, Andrew Chong and I met up with Scott Hobson, Big I NY’s Director of Government Relations in Manhattan at a fundraiser to support Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.  The event was sponsored by Bolton-St. Johns, Big I NY’s Government Relations Firm at Serafina Tribeca on Wednesday Nov. 20th.   Discussions of the specific topics we have talked about in the past and that are highlighted in Big I’s position paper (on our website), were not discussed, but the support and relationship building is necessary as we gear up for “L” day on March 3 at the Capital in Albany and to further…

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New Law Bars Discriminating Against Workers Based on Reproductive Health Choices

​ A new state law took effect three weeks ago that puts new restrictions on employers' ability to discriminate against workers because of workers' reproductive health decisions. Stephanie H. Fedorka of the law firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King has an informative blog post about it: The law prohibits employers from accessing an employee’s personal information regarding the employee’s, or the employee’s dependent’s, reproductive health decision making without the employee’s prior informed affirmative written consent. The law prohibits employers from discriminating against or taking retaliatory action against an employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of or on the basis…

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