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Connecticut Convention: Mock cyberattacks, networking

Connecticut Convention: Mock cyberattacks, networking

by Jaye Czupryna | May 8, 2023 | Association, Featured

PIACT held its annual Connecticut Convention at the end of March—returning to the Hartford Marriott Downtown. The event featured hundreds of agents, company representatives, exhibitors, and more industry professionals from Connecticut. Excitingly, the Connecticut...

Insurance professionals value the ever-changing industry at PIANY’s first-ever Capital RAP

Insurance professionals value the ever-changing industry at PIANY’s first-ever Capital RAP

by Jaye Czupryna | Oct 31, 2022 | Association, Featured

Some 150 insurance professionals attended PIANY’s first-ever Capital RAP. The event was held Oct. 25, 2022, at the Capital Center, Albany. Scores of attendees learned from insurance industry leaders on how to navigate an ever-changing insurance landscape. Presidential...

Live at the Hard Rock, Atlantic City: Insurance professionals assemble at Annual Conference

Live at the Hard Rock, Atlantic City: Insurance professionals assemble at Annual Conference

by Jaye Czupryna | Jun 27, 2022 | Association

For the first time in three years, some 1,500 insurance professionals from New Jersey and New York gathered, live and in-person at a new location—the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Atlantic City—for two-and-a-half days for the return of the Annual Conference hosted by...

N.Y.: LI RAP offers insurance professionals access to information and networking

N.Y.: LI RAP offers insurance professionals access to information and networking

by Jaye Czupryna | May 12, 2022 | Association

Some 300 insurance professionals attended PIANY’s Long Island RAP at the end of April. During the event—which was the first in-person event PIANY hosted this year—attendees networked, earned continuing-education credits on education sessions that covered...

NOAA predicts a mild, warm Northeast this spring

NOAA predicts a mild, warm Northeast this spring

by Alexandra Chouinard | Apr 1, 2022 | Association, Featured, General News

Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its climate predictions for April, May and June. After a winter that was mild for some—and not so mild for others—this spring could be a much-needed break. However, some of these predictions come...

N.Y.: Defining windstorms in New York homeowners insurance

N.Y.: Defining windstorms in New York homeowners insurance

by Clare Irvine, Esq. | Mar 30, 2022 | Advocacy, Association

Each summer, meteorologists watch the weather over the Atlantic Ocean carefully for any signs of hurricanes forming and they determine if the storm gets big enough to earn a name. While the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary defines a hurricane as, “violent storm with very...

N.Y.:  The importance of the Regional Advisory Councils

N.Y.: The importance of the Regional Advisory Councils

by Bradford J. Lachut, Esq. | Mar 30, 2022 | Advocacy, Association

PIA just concluded its most recent round of Regional Advisory Council meetings. What are RACs? I’m glad you asked. As a completely biased writer who has attended nearly a hundred RAC meetings throughout the years, they are one of the most valuable experiences that PIA...

Connecticut Convention, a successful return

Connecticut Convention, a successful return

by Alexandra Chouinard | Mar 29, 2022 | Association, Featured, General News

PIA held its Connecticut Convention on March 24-25, 2022, at the Hartford Marriott Downtown—a new venue for the event that gave attendees a refreshed location to learn, grow and network. Hundreds of insurance-industry professionals from all over Connecticut earned...

Part I: How to be an advocate with PIA

Part I: How to be an advocate with PIA

by Katherine “Kat” Slye-Hernandez, Ph.D. | Mar 29, 2022 | Advocacy, Association

Over the next several weeks, PIA will publish several articles about how to be an advocate. We will discuss how you can engage with PIA Northeast and PIA National to work on the associations’ legislative priorities, or how you can advocate for or against a bill you...

Meet Lydia Bashwiner: New Jersey PIAPAC treasurer and PIANJ Legislative/Regulatory Committee chair

Meet Lydia Bashwiner: New Jersey PIAPAC treasurer and PIANJ Legislative/Regulatory Committee chair

by Katherine “Kat” Slye-Hernandez, Ph.D. | Mar 15, 2022 | Advocacy, Association

In celebration of Women’s History Month, I sat down with Lydia Bashwiner, Esq., CWCP, NJWCP, from Otterstedt Insurance Agency Inc. Lydia is the treasurer of New Jersey PIAPAC, as well as the chair of the PIANJ Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Committee. We discussed...

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