Decentralization of power generation and a rapidly shrinking talent pool are risks that utility companies will continue to grapple with for years to come.
A Texas oilfield inspection company comes under scrutiny when its personnel director propositions and the company then fires a pregnant sales associate.
Negotiating in the Nick of Time “We recently switched our broker of record to JLT primarily due to Rob,” said a treasury official at one client. “He had some great ideas on how to improve our insurance program. One specific item he proposed and we implemented was adding our terrorism coverage back into our property… View Article
A Partner to Weather All Storms Beecher Carlson’s Susan Garrard supported a client through a complex transaction involving the purchase of a lease interest in a portfolio of power projects from a bankrupt company. “A material chunk of the portfolio is in a part of the country seriously affected by the hurricanes this year,” explained… View Article
Helping New Business in a Big Way Few brokers can say they were present at the creation of a new business. “I formed a company about a year ago that acquires pre-construction solar projects and funds the construction and operations,” said the company’s managing partner. Since then, he said, “Susan has essentially served as our… View Article
Improving Coverage and Rates William Barnett was instrumental in several significant positive developments to one client’s insurance program this year, said its global director of risk management. For starters, he was able to engineer an 8 percent premium decrease on a program that was already reduced by 12 percent the prior year. “As our program… View Article