Yearly Archives: 2021

Growing Your Book with Workers’ Compensation

By Stephen PrimianoToday I woke up as I normally do, a prompt bottle for the baby coupled with my regime of morning coffee mixed with the morning news. As I clicked through a variety of news venues a common narrative taking place is the state of the job market. As a broker delivering Workers’ Compensation products and solutions, that topic is very important to me as it has a direct impact on my business and that of the independent insurance agents I support.We have just begun the 4th quarter, and I am beginning to think of ways to deliver more value and find new opportunities for our…

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HERO Act Prevention Plan Activation Extended to Oct. 31

​<a title="https://www.nursetogether.com/, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FFP_and_Surgical_Face_masks_used_during_Coronavirus_pandemic_COVID-19.jpg" target="_blank"> Private employers in New York State must continue implementing their airborne infectious disease exposure prevention plans until at least October 31, 2021. The New York State Department of Health announced the extension of the requirement on September 30.  All insurance agencies should continue following their plans indefinitely.The New York State HERO Act​ required all private employers to adopt these plans by August 5, 2021. In addition, employers must implement their plans if the Health Department designates a disease as "a highly contagious communicable disease that presents a serious risk of harm to the public health." The department…

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Paid Family Leave Change To Take Effect Jan. 1

​A regulation to cap the number of days Paid Family Leave workers can use intermittently will take effect this winter. The New York State Workers Compensation Board has formally adopted it​ with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2022. This will affect both your employer clients and your agencies.The adopted regulation is identical to the one the board proposed last May, which we reported on at the time.  While the law and previous Paid Family Leave regulations express the amount of permitted leave in terms of weeks, some workers may need to take leave in increments of days (for example, to care for elderly family members on…

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