Click Up in Smoke III – The SAFE Banking Act is Major Step Towards Access to Banks and Credit Unions (and Service Providers) for Legalized Cannabis Industry
By Rickard Jorgensen, FCII, ARM, ACIArb This past month the majority of Democratic and ninety-one Republican members of the House of Representatives passed the landmark Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019, commonly known as the SAFE Banking Act. This law has been in development for six years and is intended to reduce the […]
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Oct, 08, 2019
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Professional Liability for CPAs – Understanding your coverage – Part V – Conditions – the fine print
By Rickard Jorgensen, FCII, ARM, ACIArb The Conditions section is usually the last section of of your professional liability policy. This is the part of the policy which deals with such things as claims notification, cancellation, Extended Reporting Period rights, Other insurance and disputes with the insurer. Careful attention should be paid to this section […]
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- Oct, 08, 2019
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Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243,000 transfer
Based on an article by Lisa Vass of Nake Security by Sophos. Any CPA firm mind should be painfully aware of how much money they could loose via skillful Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams, where fraudsters convincingly forge emails, invoices, contracts and letters to socially engineer the people who hold the purse strings. There have been […]
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- Sep, 09, 2019
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Professional Liability for CPAs – Understanding your coverage – Part IV – Exclusions
AKA what’s not covered…. By Rickard Jorgensen, FCII, ARM, ACIArb Whereas the coverage grant provides affirmative coverage, the exclusions take coverage away. If an activity is listed in the exclusions section of the policy, you do not have any coverage, no matter what the other sections of the policy state. It is the absolute […]
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- Sep, 09, 2019
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Minimizing the risk of malpractice claims from lateral hires
By Rickard Jorgensen, FCII, ARM, ACIArb Many accounting firms have aggressive plans to build their practices and expand the range of services available to clients. Growth strategy is often comprises of several elements: Organic growth is the simplest and arises from marketing, business and employee development and cross selling services to clients. Mergers and acquisition […]
Professional Liability for CPAs – Understanding your coverage – Part III – the coverage grant
By Rickard Jorgensen, FCII, ARM, ACIArb Each insurer’s policy is arranged differently, and the items listed above can be located in different places and with different headings in each policy. However, by reading the explanations below, you should be able to locate them no matter where they are found within a policy. 1. Coverage Agreements […]
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- Aug, 12, 2019
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Equifax breach settlement
by Rickard Jorgensen, FCII, ARM, ACIArb. You may recall that in September 2017 we reported on the data breach suffered by the national credit reporting agency. Go here for the article. According to Reuters — Credit reporting company Equifax Inc. will pay up to $700 million to settle U.S. federal and state probes into a […]
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- Posted in Cyber Liability, Cyber resources, Cyber risk management, data breach, Data protection, equifax, Phishing scams, professional liability claims, risk management, security, Uncategorized
- Jul, 22, 2019
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The Most Expensive Insurance Policy is Always the Cheapest One.
This following is an article by guest blogger, Aaaron Lipson of FounderPro about the perils of buying coverage based upon price considerations alone. In the past we have spent much time blogging about quality of coverage. Even our competitors often focus upon coverage over costs (even when we can point to coverage flaws in their […]
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- Jul, 10, 2019
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Gotcha! Three cyber policy traps to look out for (and a postcript to the CCH hack)
The following is an article published by CFC Underwriting, a leading cyber insurer based in London. The original article appears here. ——————————————————————————————————————— Cyber insurance is projected to experience major growth in the years ahead and new insurers are regularly entering the market. While this is creating greater competition and providing more choice for customers, some insurers […]
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- Posted in Comprenhensive coverage, Cyber Liability, Cyber resources, due diligence, email risk management, Fraudulent Wire Transfers, insurance, Phishing scams, policy coverage, policy wording, risk management, Uncategorized
- Jun, 04, 2019
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A cyber coverage “Fire Drill” – professional liability insurance implications of the CCH Axcess (Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting) malware attack.
By Rickard Jorgensen, FCII, ARM, ACIArb Last Monday we received a flurry of frantic phone calls from clients about the denial of access to the CCH Axcess program. On Monday May 6, between the hours of 8-10 a.m. E.T., accountants across the country started realizing their CCH products, which are based in the cloud, were […]
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- Posted in CCH Axcess, Cyber Liability, Cyber resources, Cyber risk management, Data protection, Fraud, Phishing scams, security, Tax Services, Third party exposure, Uncategorized
- May, 13, 2019
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