There is a disconnect in the current workers compensation market. Rates are effectively based on a snapshot of the company and industry taken years prior. A policyholder can lower their premium if they experience fewer losses. But even with zero losses, it takes time....
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How to Be Successful in Sales What it takes. - Here are the 10 things you need to succeed as an agent and have success in sales. There is a big difference between being a small piece in a machine and being the motor that runs it. Being in sales means you are the...
Easing Construction Worker Stress Despite Economic Climate
A notable increase in demand for construction deliverables and labor combined has created a unique set of both opportunities and challenges for your construction clients. Covid-era consumer interest in homebuying is still trending above normal, and forecasts indicate...
Worker Mental Health a Key Focus for Manufacturing Safety Culture
COVID-19, Manufacturing, Safety, Trends
In the wake of two years of pandemic living, most Americans are confronting stress in their lives on a daily basis, at home and at work. Your clients in the manufacturing sector were already feeling the strain before COVID-19, as a 2017 Mental Health America study...
How to Reach Your Sales Goals This Year
Business Growth, Sales & Productivity
Whether it is the first day of the first month of the new year, or it is just some random weekday in June, you have the opportunity to start fresh and reach your sales goals. This article will lead you through all the steps you need to becoming a motivated, goal...
Delightfully Different Holiday Ideas for Clients from Foresight’s Gift Guru
Are you worried that your holiday gifts for clients and business partners may be getting a little stale? You certainly aren’t alone! Fear not, says Event + Marketing Manager Lauren Taylor, the creative mind behind many of the unique brand experiences that...
Three Tips for Smooth Renewal Business
As you prepare for insurance renewal meetings with your clients heading into a new policy year, it’s important to acknowledge both the opportunities and challenges 2022 may bring—for every customer, in every industry sector. Foresight’s Business Development leadership...
Preventing Crane Accidents Must Be a Priority for Busy Construction Workers
Construction, Equipment Safety, Risk, Safety
Crane accidents have the potential to become massive and tragic events, not just for the construction workers on a job site, but for members of the community in the vicinity of the crane. Just last month, a Michigan man lost his life when a crane overturned on a job....
A Matter of Growing Concern: Agricultural Workers in Smoky Conditions
Agriculture, Farm Labor, Risk, Safety, Trends
With wildfires becoming more frequent in more regions of the US, the health hazards of working outdoors in smoky air is at issue for hundreds of thousands of workers—not just those fighting the fires—and workers don’t have to be that close to the fire to be affected....
Brokers Beware! Ghost Policies Come with Spooky Consequences
Compliance, Risk, Workers' Comp 101
It’s late one night as you sit at your desk catching up on work. You don’t mind. There’s a full moon, and you have a cup of coffee to keep you company. But, out of the corner of your eye, you think you see something odd in a stack of papers on your desk. You...
Ladders Pose a Heightened Risk for Your Orchard and Grove Clients
Agriculture, Farm Labor, Safety
Ladders are a source of workplace accidents everywhere they’re used, but your orchard and grove clients need to pay special attention to ladder safety. When you consider the way workers use ladders in these settings—the reaching, the constant climbing up and...
How to Become an Insurance Agent
How to become an insurance agent is about the logistical steps you need to take to start your career in selling insurance. It is a step-by-step guide to the tests, licenses, certifications, and forms required. After you read this dry, but very helpful article, please...