Oprah Winfrey to Chelsea Handler – Skinny Shot Popularity Clouds Healthcare Underwriting The Semaglutide Craze Weight loss is trending in the realm of healthcare. Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of people that are using an injection containing Semaglutides to lose weight. These shots were originally...Read More
Ingrid Raphael-Seplowe Joins the Team Please meet the newest Founders Professional Healthcare team addition – Ingrid Raphael-Seplowe. Ingrid Joined Founders in June 2023. She brings over 30 years of insurance expertise to the team. Before joining Founders, Ingrid worked as a Healthcare Broker at Risk Placement Services for 11 years she focused on the placement...Read More
Opportunities Abound in Life Sciences The Life Sciences and Nutraceutical industries must carefully address the unique exposures they face in relation to their service, development, manufacturing, sale, distribution, and warranty of products. Clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, and dietary supplements all have unique liability challenges that need customized and comprehensive coverages. Products Liability...Read More
Endless Opportunities if You Know Where to Look Opportunities to write new business in the healthcare and life sciences sectors are endless. Focusing your efforts in these areas should prove to be extremely successful for any insurance agent. At Founders Professional, we pride ourselves on our specialization and expertise in the wholesale professional liability...Read More
How’s Your Doctor’s Webside Manner? By Kayla Mayhew | Life Sciences Practice Leader | Founders Professional Over a dozen physicians, from primary care doctors to specialists, couldn’t explain 17 years of daily symptoms – which worsened with each passing year. Test after test gave no answer. Medications provided either no relief or made symptoms worse....Read More
September 2021 The worlds of Healthcare and Life Sciences are complex. Both are experiencing unprecedented change and innovation due to personalized medicine, emerging technologies, and the surge in telehealth. Medicine is constantly evolving, but there’s presently a public microscope focused on practitioners, scientists, and government agencies due to the ongoing pandemic. No one could...Read More
My ‘Why’ as a Professional Liability Broker By Kayla Mayhew, Life Sciences Practice Leader at Founders Professional August 2021 A defining moment of my life occurred on a chilly February ‘96 evening, riding home from the hospital in the backseat of one of my dad’s favorite cars, a 1967 Pontiac LeMans. I stared...Read More
NEW LIFE SCIENCES DIVISION & PRACTICE LEADER July 2021 Life Sciences represents a huge opportunity for our agency partners and FoundersPro. Although Research & Development, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, nutraceuticals, and medical devices were already on a strong growth track before COVID-19, the ongoing pandemic has further propelled the Life Sciences industry into the public spotlight. The...Read More
Interest in health and nutrition-related products is on the rise, making nutraceuticals an exciting and emerging industry. But just like any company that manufactures or distributes products, nutraceutical companies are exposed to a range of risks from products causing bodily injury to product recall. Target Risks Companies Manufacturing or Distributing: Cosmoceuticals CBD / Hemp Products...Read More
Healthcare is a continually changing field. Staying on top of current events will help you identify quality insurance solutions for your client’s new exposures. Cyber breaches, HIPAA violations, Medicare/Medicaid fraud allegations, large jury verdicts, healthcare reform, physician shortages, hospital/health system mergers… the list of current events is endless. Who would have thought that just 5...Read More
