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Wednesday,
March 18, 2020
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VIDEO: The PIA Partnership presents,
Winning@Talent
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Winning@Talent, a
3-part toolkit created specifically to help agencies understand
how to best recruit in today's talent marketplace, while
enhancing the employee experience so that employees want to
stay.
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PIA and The PIA Partnership are
proud to introduce Winning@Talent, the independent insurance
agent's guide to hiring, motivating and retaining the best agency
employees.
Winning@Talent
is a 3-part toolkit featuring intuitive tools that take agency
employers through a simple journey that starts with determining if
their agency is well positioned to attract quality candidates and
ends with a happy, productive employee.
Part 1, Are You Ready to Recruit?, focuses on
helping agencies assess their employer brand so they can see their
agency the way prospective employees see their agency. In this
section, we help agency owners and managers assess their employer
brand, provide tools to help them build and strengthen it, and
offer best practices on how to make it resonate across
communication channels and social networks.
Part 2, Sourcing, Recruiting and
Hiring, focuses on sourcing potential hiring prospects,
recruiting them into your agency and ultimately hiring them. This
section offers resources and best practices to help agency owners
and managers find, screen, interview and evaluate candidates in
ways that will help them reduce their time to fill key positions,
build their talent pipeline and meet long-term recruiting goals.
Part 3, Retaining Your Best
Employees, focuses on how agencies can retain
their best employees because employee retention is vital to growing
any agency. This section provides best practices and resources that
agency owners and managers can share with their employees to help
those employees with their own career development.
Winning@Talent
is brought to you by The PIA Partnership,
a joint effort of leading insurance companies and PIA. Thank you to the members of
The PIA Partnership: Encompass Insurance, Erie Insurance, Liberty
Mutual Insurance, MetLife Auto & Home, National General
Insurance, Progressive Insurance, Selective Insurance Group, State
Auto Insurance Companies, The Hanover Insurance Group and West Bend
Mutual Insurance Company.
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The
Occupational Safety and Health Administration released guidance to help employers prepare their workplaces for an outbreak of
COVID-19 — along with a reminder that any incidents of employees
contracting the novel coronavirus at work are recordable illnesses,
subject to the same rules and failure-to-record fines as other
workplace injuries and illnesses.
While
OSHA specifically exempts employers from recording incidents of
employees contracting common colds and the flu in the workplace, COVID-19 is not exempt, the agency noted in
a new document.
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In
the rapidly evolving situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic,
PIA has started a resource webpage. We will be making continued
updates to this page, but wanted to share the landing page with
you: www.pianet.com/coronavirus.
Resources
from PIA, the CDC, and our industry partners can be used to assist
you in adapting to the new environment. Insurance agencies should consider
implementing safeguards to reduce exposure to
illness.
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A new podcast from FC&S and PropertyCasualty360.com highlights some of the issues for insurers surrounding
COVID-19. t's the first segment in a new insurance-related
podcast series entitled, Insurance Speak.
In the first segment, Christine
Barlow, managing editor of FC&S Expert Coverage
Interpretation, looks at the lines of insurance most likely to
be affected by the COVID-19 disease, discusses which areas are
likely to see the most claims, and explains the role of policy
interpretation and why this is so important for carriers and
policyholders alike.
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The coronavirus has upended lives and
businesses around the globe. From business interruption and
supply chain disruption to event and travel cancellations, we
are only just seeing the beginning stages of COVID-19's
impact.
These articles from NUPC National Underwriter, NUPC 360 and FC&S Expert
Coverage Interpretation provide valuable insights on
insurance coverage, preparation tips and more to help
individuals and businesses reduce exposures as the virus
spreads.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer requested President Donald Trump to open a special 60-day
Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment period to allow
uninsured people to obtain health care coverage. Michigan
is under a state of emergency after two residents tested
"presumptive positive" for coronavirus.
"During this crisis,
we must do everything we can to ensure access to quality,
affordable health care," Whitmer said in a
statement. "That's why we're calling on the
president to allow for a special enrollment period, and
why we're taking action today in Michigan to expand
opportunities for safe, quality care through
telemedicine."
Meanwhile, Massachusetts
Insurance Commissioner Gary D. Anderson issued a bulletin announcing a special enrollment period (SEP) effective
immediately until April 25 for eligible individuals in
the Commonwealth who are not currently enrolled in an
insurance plan.
The Massachusetts Division
of Insurance collaborated with the Commonwealth Health
Insurance Connector Authority in developing the bulletin.
In light of the spread of COVID-19 and its impact to the
public's health, the Connector has announced a
limited-time SEP, during which currently uninsured
Massachusetts residents can enroll in health coverage.
This SEP will not allow currently enrolled individuals to
switch plans.
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Mike Consedine, the NAIC's
chief executive officer, said in a tweet that the NAIC
will be moving the meeting proceedings to a virtual
format.
"The important work
will continue, but we'll now have to work smarter and
safer," Consedine said in the tweet. "Like it
or not, just as 9/11 did, #coronavirus has forever
changed the world we live and work in."
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Under Florida law, certain
licensed insurance employees are required to conduct
business from their agency offices. In the wake of
Florida's state of emergency due to the COVID-19
pandemic, Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis issued a directive allowing Florida agency customer service representatives
to conduct business outside of a licensed agency.
The order states, "In
order to afford flexibility to licensees who are
quarantined or whose offices are subject to closure due
to the COVID-19, the Department of Financial Services
will not enforce provisions of [Florida Statutes] until
May 8, unless this order is extended by subsequent
Directive of the Chief Financial Officer."
The law, enacted in 1990,
applies to people who have a Florida 4-40 Resident
Customer Service Representative license. It allows
salaried employees of insurance agents or agencies in
Florida to transact insurance business under the
supervision of a licensed and appointed general lines
agent.
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Latest From the PIA Advocacy Blog
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Americans
"should be prepared that they're going to have to
hunker down significantly more than we as a country are
doing."
--Dr. Anthony
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
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PIA
NATIONAL
NEWSLINE
EDITORIAL
STAFF:
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National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) is an
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as business professionals who meet the needs of consumers by
marketing insurance products and services. PIA members are Local
Agents Serving Main Street AmericaSM. Send your comments, story
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