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Lawley recognized as Top 100 Property & Casualty Insurance Agency
Press release:
For the 13th consecutive year, Lawley was ranked by Insurance Journal as one of the Top 100 largest commercial lines agencies in the United States. The company continues to rise on the list, this year moving up two spots to number 43.
“We strive to build and maintain the trust of our clients by providing recommendations that protect them through property & casualty insurance, employee benefits, risk management solutions or personal insurance. To see those efforts contribute to our growth is quite rewarding and we’re very pleased to see the progress we make each year,” said Bill Lawley Jr., Managing Partner of Lawley.
The annual list is ranked by total commercial lines property/casualty revenue for 2016 and comprises only those agencies that are privately-owned firms whose business is primarily retail, not wholesale. All information in the report was garnered from voluntary online submissions from agencies and brokerages.
Lawley was also recently recognized by Business Insurance as the 54th largest insurance broker in the United States, based on 2016 brokerage revenues.
To read the full list of Property & Casualty Insurance Brokers, click here.
About Lawley
Lawley is a privately-owned, independent regional insurance firm specializing in property, casualty and personal insurance, employee benefits and risk management consulting and ranked among the 100 Largest Insurance Brokers in the United States, according to Business Insurance magazine.
For over 60 years, Lawley’s team of more than 350 associates have developed customized property, casualty, surety and benefits insurance programs for businesses and municipalities of all sizes along with personalized protection for individuals and their families. Lawley is consistently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Buffalo Business First.
Headquartered in Buffalo, Lawley has branch offices across New York in Amherst, Batavia, Fredonia, Melville, Purchase, and Rochester along with Darien, Conn., and Florham Park, NJ. To find out more, visit lawleylnsurance.com.
Medicare 101 Session
Will you be new to Medicare due to age or disability by May 2016?
Thinking of retiring, but not certain what the next steps are?
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Next session will not be until March 2016!
Held at the Office for the Aging - 2 Bank Street, Batavia
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Event Date and Time
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Medicare 101 Session
Will you be new to Medicare soon due to age or disability?
Thinking of retiring, but not certain what the next steps are?
Attend one of our sessions and learn all about Medicare!
Held at the Office for the Aging - 2 Bank Street, Batavia
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Event Date and Time
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Medicare 101 Session
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All sessions are held at the Genesee County Office for the Aging -
2 Bank Street, Batavia - and begin at 6pm
Reservations are NOT required.
Event Date and Time
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Medicare 101 Seminar
Will you be new to Medicare soon because of age or disability?
Thinking of retiring, but not certain what the next steps are?
Attend one of our sessions and learn about Medicare!
All sessions are free and are held at the Genesee County Office for the Aging—
2 Bank Street, Batavia. All begin at 6pm.
Reservations are NOT required!
Event Date and Time
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Medicare 101 Seminar
Will you be new to Medicare soon because of age or disability?
Thinking of retiring, but not certain what the next steps are?
Attend one of our sessions and learn about Medicare!
All sessions are free and are held at the Genesee County Office for the Aging—
2 Bank Street, Batavia. All begin at 6pm.
Reservations are NOT required!
Event Date and Time
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Medicare 101 Seminar
Will you be new to Medicare soon because of age or disability?
Thinking of retiring, but not certain what the next steps are?
Attend one of our sessions and learn about Medicare!
All sessions are held at the Genesee County Office for the Aging—
2 Bank Street, Batavia. All begin at 6pm.
Reservations are NOT required!
Event Date and Time
-
Medicare 101 Seminar
Will you be new to Medicare soon because of age or disability?
Thinking of retiring, but not certain
what the next steps are?
Attend one of our sessions
and learn about Medicare!
All sessions are free and held at the
Genesee County Office for the Aging—
2 Bank Street, Batavia. All begin at 6pm.
Reservations are NOT required!
Event Date and Time
-
Medicare 101 Seminar
Will you be new to Medicare soon because of age or disability?
Thinking of retiring, but not certain
what the next steps are?
Attend one of our sessions
and learn about Medicare!
Sessions are held at the Genesee County
Office for the Aging—
2 Bank Street, Batavia and begin at 6pm.
Reservations are NOT required!
Event Date and Time
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Insurance company offers local governments a chance to improve worker safety for free
Local governments, including Genesee County, that participate in pooling a workers compensation insurance program have a chance to get help reducing workplace injuries using consultants for essentially no cost.
Bill Fritts, president of Lawley Genesee, explained what his company is prepared to do for local governments if Lawley becomes the worker compensation insurance broker.
The possibility came to Fritts's attention, he said, after receiving a request for proposal from the county for a new workers comp plan.
As a broker, Lawley can apply its commissions to provide a variety of services to members of the pool.
Genesee County, along with all of the local school districts and most towns and villages (but not the City of Batavia) are part of a self-insurance pool for workers compensation.
If a worker is injured on the job, the pool will pay the first $500,000 of coverage.
What the county has been shopping for is a new carrier for "excess coverage" -- an insurance company that pays any claims in excess of $500,000.
There are only three such carriers in the nation.
Under the plan presented by Fritts, Lawley will accept bids from the carriers, select one and manage the relationship.
With its commissions, Lawley will then use its own experts to identify areas where worker safety can be improved and look for other cost-saving opportunities.
Lawley's consultants will study claim history, look for departments that have safety records that can improve and then study work that's going on in those workplaces to see what safety improvements can be made.
"We'll look at what members are hurting and helping you," Fritt said. "We send in loss-prevention consultants to those areas first that hare hurting you and see what safety programs are needed. We might create incentive programs if they need to change their culture and help them change their culture."
There is no additional fee for the pool members for the extra services.
"I've seen the results and it's pretty amazing," Fritts said. "It makes you feel pretty good because you're preventing injuries."
At the next Ways and Means Committee meeting, legislators will have a chance to vote on the offer.
Red Cross urges college students to get renter's insurance
Here's a news release aimed at college students from the WNY Tri County Chapter of the American Red Cross, which serves Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties.
Here's a class you really should take!
Renter’s Insurance 101
Logic #1: I am in school; my parent’s insurance covers my stuff.
Reasoning: If you live on campus, your parent’s policy MAY cover your belongings, but if you have your own apartment, you are out of luck!
Logic #2: I can’t afford it and I don’t really have anything in my apartment.
Reasoning: According to the Insurance Information Institute, the average cost of a renter's insurance policy with $25,000 of property coverage and $100,000 in liability coverage only cost around $16 per month.
If you don’t think you own enough stuff to justify that, look around your room. CDs bedding, computer equipment, YOUR BOOKS! You can’t afford not to get it!
Logic #3: My roommate has renter’s insurance so I am covered.
Reasoning: Ah, good for you for getting a smart roommate. Too bad you think
his policy will cover your things -- it won’t!
Logic #4: My building is totally secure. No one can break into here!
Reasoning: Are you willing to bet your new Mac on that? Renters are 79 percent more
likely to be victims of burglary than homeowners.
Logic #5: My landlord is great -- he has my back!
Reasoning: Your landlord’s insurance covers structural damage. It doesn’t cover your belongings or legal obligations if something is damaged or someone gets hurt inside of your apartment.
PUT RENTER’S INSURANCE ON YOUR SHOPPING LIST TODAY!
Heading to College? Be Prepared!
Heading off to College?
Here is a class you really should take!
Renter’s Insurance 101
Logic #1: I am in school; my parent’s insurance covers my stuff!
Reasoning: If you live on campus, your parent’s policy MAY cover your belongings, but if you have your own apartment, you are out of luck!
Logic #2: I can’t afford it and I don’t really have anything in my apartment
Reasoning: According to the Insurance Information Institute, the average cost of a renters insurance policy with $25,000 of property coverage and $ 100,000 in liability coverage only cost around $16/ month.
If you don’t think you own enough stuff to justify that, look around your room. CD’s bedding, computer equipment, YOUR BOOKS! You can’t afford not to get it!
Logic #3:My roommate has renter’s insurance so I am covered
Reasoning: Ah, good for you for getting a smart roommate! Too bad you think his policy will cover your things- it won’t!
Logic #4: My building is totally secure. No one can break into here!
Reasoning: Are you willing to bet your new Mac on that? Renters are 79% more likely to be victims of burglary than homeowners.
Logic #5: My landlord is great- he has my back!
Reasoning: Your landlord’s insurance covers structural damage. It doesn’t cover your belongings or legal obligations if something is damaged or someone gets hurt inside of your apartment.
PUT RENTER’S INSURANCE ON YOUR SHOPPING LIST TODAY!
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Insurance companies can fix prices with anti-trust exemption
I've argued that much of what's messed up about health care has more to do with government screwing up the system than any free market problems, with the idea that the real health care reform is to get government out of the way, not add more government.
If you want a free market, companies need to compete, not collude. That's one important aspect of anti-trust law.
I had no idea until tonight that insurance companies enjoyed an anti-trust exemption.
That explains a lot.
