InterWest’s Distinguished Employee: Beth Luera Beth is truly a very dedicated and loyal teammate. She is admired by her coworkers and managers as a kind and thoughtful person. Beth is always doing things for others. Her workload is heavy, but she will always find time to take on another project or assist teammates. She has…
You’ve managed to put together a crack team of producers and you suddenly find yourself with more business than you can handle. You didn’t put systems and support personnel in place to handle the volume of new business your new agents have started producing and if you don’t get a handle on it quickly, your…
InterWest’s Distinguished Employee: Adria Johnson Adria is always eager to take on new projects and looks for ways to improve processes. When she sees something that could be improved, she takes an initiative to ask questions, learn why things are the way they are and proposes ideas that she believes will help. A Broker she…
Legislators in Sacramento have fast-tracked new legislation that will extend paid COVID-19 leave benefits for workers in California. AB 84, which Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised to sign, would require employers with 26 or more workers to provide up to 40 hours of supplemental paid sick leave for employees who are unable to work on…
Starting Jan. 15, the nation’s health insurers have been required to cover the cost of up to eight at-home rapid COVID-19 tests per month for their health plan enrollees. Insurers are taking different approaches to the mandate and, as an employer, you should communicate with your covered staff about this new benefit, how it works…
Can someone recover damages from a business if they claim that a family member caught COVID-19 at work and spread it to them? For California businesses, a court recently said that they might be able to. And courts in other states may use the decision as guidance. A California appellate court in December ruled that…
February is American Heart Month! Please join all InterWest offices in raising awareness about heart disease by sharing photos of you, your family friends and pets wearing red. Some RED each day is the heart healthy way. Thank you for supporting American Heart Month! https://www.heart.org/en/affiliates/california/sacramento