Legal and Insurance Articles

Don't be catch unprepared for the worst case scenario

By Chris Freeburn

A small business's survival can mean more than weathering the economy's ups and downs, or attracting consumer interest. Sometimes it means recovering from disaster. That disaster can come in the form of a fire that rips through your office, or the building housing it, a flood that soaks the business district in which your company is located, or a tornado or hurricane that batters your city. Such ca...

With costs rising in every category, insurance again tops the list of small-business woes.
By Reed Richardson

But carriers and small businesses can lessen the pain by getting creative. When Benjamin Franklin said, "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes," he obviously wasn't thinking about running a small business. If he had, insurance would have been right up there.

Many small-business owners treat insurance as a necessary evil, the annual...