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| September 2023 |
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Westfield's direct reporting service empowers your customers to easily report claims to our Customer Care Center. This streamlined process ensures faster and more accurate service, freeing up your time to concentrate on growing your business.

This article highlights two pressing concerns faced by insurers in the workers compensation market. As agents, you can assist your clients by educating them about these risks and emphasizing the importance of a partnerships.

Middle-market commercial customers are facing rising property and auto insurance premiums due to a number of factors. As agents, you can help by communicating more frequently, assisting with program evaluation, and optimizing coverages and costs to align with the customer's business objectives.

7 Ways to Work With and Sell to People Not Like You
No two individuals are alike. We all have our unique traits, backgrounds, and perspectives. When we grasp the values that define each person, remarkable things happen. Relationships grow stronger, connections become more personal, and understanding takes root.
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Why Employers Need Options in Return-to-Work Programs
This article discusses the impact of lost time claims on workers' compensation premiums for employers and how they can reduce them by offering modified or transitional duty assignments to recovering employees. It provides options for on-site light-duty work and off-site transitional duty assignments, such as volunteering at a nonprofit, and emphasizes the importance of creating a portfolio of return-to-work solutions.

Social Inflation: Hard to Measure, Important to Understand
This article highlights the concept of social inflation and how it can raise insurers' claims costs above general economic inflation. It discusses the impact of factors that can result in higher insurance rates and make coverage less affordable for policyholders. The article also invites insurers, policyholders, and policymakers to join the discussion and find solutions to mitigate the effects of social inflation.
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