Retailers Insurance Company is a Michigan-based insurer established by Michigan Retailers Association. Currently, Retailers Insurance provides workers’ compensation insurance and group dental insurance to Michigan businesses of all types and sizes. Retailers Insurance believes safe, healthy employees are key to a successful business. These tips are designed to help. Drowsy driving doubles risk New research… Continue reading
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Retiring RIC Underwriter Excited About Her Future and Company’s
Looking back at four decades of experience in Michigan’s insurance industry, Patty Zaskowski discusses the past 11+ years with special enthusiasm. With good reason. Zaskowski, director of underwriting for Retailers Insurance Company, was there at the beginning, going to work for Michigan Retailers Association in September 2005 to help the organization convert its more than… Continue reading
New rule requiring public reporting of work injuries – nudge or public shaming?
Many Michigan businesses will be required as soon as July 1 to start using a new, online system to report their companies’ work-related injury and illness records to the public. Federal safety officials say public disclosure is intended to encourage companies with at least 20 employees to create safer workplaces by giving them a “nudge.”… Continue reading
Retirement, promotion and new underwriter at Retailers Insurance Company
LANSING – Michigan Retailers Association’s Retailers Insurance Company announced the following personnel changes: • Patty Zaskowski, director of underwriting, retired on January 31. • Laura Schilling was promoted to director of underwriting from manager of underwriting. • Jamie Moore was hired as underwriter. Zaskowski, an Okemos resident, spent four decades in Michigan’s insurance industry. The… Continue reading
Study: Seatbelts do save lives
Seatbelts do save lives A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study shows daytime seatbelt use reached 90.1 percent in 2015, up from 88.5 percent in 2014. Even with higher use, NHTSA notes that nearly half (48 percent) of people killed in crashes in 2015 were not wearing their belts. When used properly, lap/shoulder belts… Continue reading
RIC: Extending protection against tomorrow’s world
In these times, employers’ risks and exposures are constantly expanding. That’s why, as Michigan’s preferred workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Retailers Insurance Company is always looking for ways to extend coverages and reward policyholders for being proactive in protecting their employees. In 2014 we were the first carrier in the nation to automatically include EFT Guard… Continue reading
Michigan Retailers announces board officers for 2016-17, new directors
LANSING – Michigan Retailers Association (MRA) announced 2016-17 officers for the MRA Board of Directors and the Retailers Insurance Company Board of Directors. Results of each organization’s election of directors at its August annual meetings also were announced, along with directors of MRA-subsidiary Michigan Retailers Services, Inc. MRA Board of Directors Orin Mazzoni, Jr., president… Continue reading
News Release: Retailers Insurance elects board members, officers
LANSING – The Retailers Insurance Company Board of Directors has re-elected all officers for 2015-16, following the election of three incumbents to the board at the Company’s 2015 Annual Meeting. Serving as officers through August 2016 are: • Chair Jeff Joyce, vice president and co-owner of Mieras Family Shoes, Grand Rapids; • Retailers Insurance President… Continue reading
News Release: Retailers Insurance Adds Automatic Protection For Online Business Banking
LANSING – Retailers Insurance is coming to the aid of business men and women who bank online and face a serious risk they probably didn’t know they faced. Under current banking regulations, financial institutions don’t cover losses from online attacks on business accounts, even though they do for individual accounts. Retailers Insurance has partnered with… Continue reading
News Release: Retailers Insurance Company grows from Retailers Mutual
LANSING – Retailers Mutual Insurance Company is now Retailers Insurance Company, a move requested by Retailers Mutual and approved by state regulators on October 23, 2014. All new and renewed policies and future correspondence will reflect the new name. The change is more than just in name, said James P. Hallan, president and CEO of… Continue reading