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| Experts
in D&O and E&O professional liability insurance
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What’s
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- You
work directly with principals and receive personal
attention
- Well-established
company, in business since 1895, not a fly-by-night
company
- Experience in
handling the special needs of technology companies
(network security, hacker protection, viruses)
- InsureCast
represents virtually every A-Rated carrier with specialty
products for technology businesses so we can market
your account aggressively and secure the best pricing
available
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Who
is InsureCast? |
| InsureCast
is a division of Gaston & Associates, Inc., a NY
based insurance agency tracing its roots through 4 generations
of family, and incorporated in 1895.
Our
customers range from start-ups to public companies.
We serve about three thousand clients nationally. InsureCast's
marketing territory is national in scope, and we hold
property-casualty and life-health licenses in all states except Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. We are dedicated to giving excellent service to all our clients and continue our
107 years of providing business and professional liability
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| You cannot afford to do business with
an incompetent broker |
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| In
today’s business climate you cannot afford to do business
with a broker that takes your account for granted and doesn’t
offer product expertise. Board members are increasingly finding
themselves the target of suits from disgruntled employees
and shareholders. Full
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| Are You Hiring an Insurance Risk? |
Could
your firm afford to hire employees that have moving violations,
credit problems, misrepresented educational background or
have a criminal convictions? Did you know your decision also
could directly impact your insurance coverages? Full
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| Paper Train Your Employees |
| Despite all
the publicity on the growing number of court cases and liability
judgments, the majority of clients don’t start doing
business with you with the expectation that they’ll
one day see you in court. Yet, just as many marriages begin
“till death do us part” and end in divorce, many
business relationships turn sour somewhere along the way.
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| Product Liability Options |
| Jury
awards in product liability cases have increased dramatically
since 1993, when the median award came to $500,300. According
to the latest data, the median award rose to $1.8 million by
1999. Most claims resulting in high jury awards arise from automobile
defects, other transportation items, and medical claims. However,
any manufacturing or distribution business should be concerned
with product safety issues.
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| Learned Lease Lessons |
| A
business with an exceptional lease into its tenth year of a
20-year term is in a favorable yet vulnerable position. Finding
a comparable property at a reasonable rate would be almost impossible.
How can a lessee with a valuable lease protect against the building's
destruction and the termination of its lease?
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| Are You Breaking Copyright Laws? |
| With
so much material now available in electronic format, the ability
to “cut and paste,” even from one web site to another,
virtually has eliminated the time and mechanical barriers to
copying such materials. And if such inadvertent infringement
occurs, will your current insurance provide protection?
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| How Transparent Is Your Company? |
| The
term “transparency” has been making the news in
corporate scandals recently. Many allegations of financial mismanagement
involve complex schemes that boards of directors approved, either
explicitly or tacitly. Even if many of these arrangements might
be found technically legal, the professional reputation of those
involved might be tarnished beyond repair.
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story on... |
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| Archived Newsletters |
| November
2002 |
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| Why a Newsletter? |
We all know how important it is to keep in
good touch with our customers.
Through this newsletter, we hope to reach out on a more frequent
basis to update you on what is going on in the industry. Hopefully
you will find something of interest and be able to use it in
your business.
We welcome your suggestions for topics you would like us to
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