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ACT Disaster Planning Toolkit

Ensure your tech is ready for a pandemic.

Losses of Business Income

What are the insurance implications?

Worker Compensation

Know the two tests that determine if an illness is occupational.

 

Updates

Videos, online Training and Travel Updates

World Health Organization

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Best Practices for Employers & Employees

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

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CORONAVIRUS Resource Center

Johns Hopkins University

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The Workplace:

Human Resources 

BIG "I" HIRES ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Your Agency and Telework-Dos, Don'ts and Practical Advice

Big "I" Hires and Affinity HR Group: 

• CDC Mask Guidance
• Plan for COVID-19 
  
• Coronavirus and Sick Leave

Teleworking 

• Caliper: You're Suddenly Managing Remote Teams. Now What?
• Angela Adams: We Can Prepare Your Agency for a Successful Remote Work Environment
• Harvard Business Review: 15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered
• Forbes: How Coronavirus Is Creating a Watershed Moment for Remote Work
  

Technology and Planning

ACT Resources:

• Disaster Planning Toolkit
• Work from Home Best Practices
• Text Messaging Terms & Conditions Agreement
• ElectronicDelivery Consent Form 
  
  
• Steve Anderson: Protect Yourself From Coronavirus Scams
• LCG: Cybersecurity Threats and How To Stay Safe During the COVID19 Pandemic 
• The Hartford: Business Continuity Planning for Infectious Disease Event
  

Payroll Protection Program

• NEW: SBA revised Payroll Protection Act loan forgiveness application
• NEW: SBA revised Payroll Protection Act EZ forgiveness application
• Are self-employed and have no employees; OR
• Did not reduce the salaries or wages of their employees by more than 25%, and did not reduce the number or hours of their employees; OR
• Experienced reductions in business activity as a result of health directives related to COVID-19, and did not reduce the salaries or wages of their employees by more than 25%.
  
• RD Advisory Group: Payroll Protection Act Info Webinar
  
• RD Advisory Group Loan Calculator
  
• InsurBanc Paycheck Protection Program(PPP) Webinar
• SBA FAQ for borrowers and lenders
  
• Borrower's Fact Sheet
  
• Agency CFO Video: Paycheck Protection Program
• Interim Final Rule on Disbursements 
  
• How to calculate PPP loan amounts

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)

• U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: The Small Business Owner’s Guide to the CARES Act
  
• Committee on Small Business CARES Flow Chart
• Big "I" Government Affairs: How the CARES ACT Impacts Big "I" Members and Their Clients 
• AFFINITY HR GROUP WEBINAR: FFCRA and CARES Acts
• Big "I" Hires and Affinity HR Group: CARES Act Analysis
• Big "I" Hires and Affinity HR Group:Families First Coronavirus Response Act
  

Families First Coronavirus Response Act 

One of the requirements of the FFCRA is that employers covered by this Act (those with fewer than 500 employees) post this notice of employee rights under the Act. Agencies/associations can either post this where they would post federal wage and hour posters, or send to employees via electronic copy. Click here.

Other Resources

19 Acts of Kindness: Here are 19 ways that your employees and community can continue to be a positive influence 

Insurance:

CARRIER RESPONSE TO COVID-19 (MEMBERS ONLY)

• Find a collective list of how carriers are helping agents and consumers through the pandemic.
  

TRUSTED CHOICE CONSUMER CORONAVIRUS WEBSITE 

• The Big "I" Trusted Choice team has gathered resources, FAQs and other consumer content for you to share with clients.
  

Big "I" Virtual University (VU) Webinars:

• E&O Risk Management - Coronavirus Best Practices
  
• Coronavirus: Does Business Income Respond?
  
• Coronavirus, Auto Exposures & Food Delivery

Big "I" Virtual University (VU) Resources:

Business Income

• NEW: Business Income and the Supposed Ambiguity of "...Direct Physical Loss of or Damage to..."
• One (or Two) Key Property Loss Provision(s) Attorneys Keep Forgetting
• Property Damage: Is It "Property Damage" Just Because a Jurisdictional Order Uses the Term "Property Damage"?
• Business Income, COVID-19, and Plaintiff Attorneys: They Keep Trying
• Why "Pandemic" is NOT Excluded in the Business Income Policy
• COVID-19: Extended Business Income Coverage
  
• How Business Income Responds to COVID-19 in Under 975 Words
• Unwrapping Gregory Packaging: Proving No Business Income Coverage for COVID-19 Closures
• Coronavirus: Does Business Income Respond?
• Coronavirus: Business Income Losses and a Covered Cause of Loss
• ISO's Business Income Response to COVID-19
• Coronavirus 'Civil Authority' Coverage May Hinge on Science
  

COMMERCIAL

• NEW: Does Requiring Customers Wear Masks Have Any Effect on Legal Liability?
  
• Is the Insurance Policy Affected if the Business Opens Against a Governor's Orders: The Facts About Supposed "Illegal Acts" Exclusions
  
• COVID-19 and Commercial Property Vacancy Concerns
  
• Coronavirus and the CGL
  

Workers' Comp 

• Coronavirus and Work Comp
• Workers’ Compensation, COVID-19 and 3.A. States

Homeowners

• Coronavirus and the Auto Exposure
  
• Does the PAP Cover Food Delivery? 
• COVID-19: Are There Any Weird Homeowners' Coverage Exposures?
  

Big "I" Professional Liability

• April 16: E&O Exposures: Increased When Working From Home?
  
• March 23: Why Agents Should Not Deny Claims on the Insurance Carrier’s Behalf
  
• March 25: How Agents Should Respond if Insurance Carrier Continues to Push for the Agent to Deny Claims
  

Other Resources 

• The Triple-I Blog: COVID-19: Learn From History to Address The Current Outbreak
• The Triple-I Blog: COVID-19: A Teachable Moment For Thinking About Risk
  
• University of South Carolina: COVID-19 and P&C Insurance: Impacts and Outlook
  
• University of South Carolina (podcast): The Impact of COVID-19 on Independent Agencies
• Insurance Commentary, Bill Wilson: How the Insurance Industry CAN Help with the Coronavirus Pandemic
  
• NCCI Workers Comp Resource
  
• NAIC Coronavirus Resource page