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A PUBLICATION BROUGHT TO YOU BY ULLICO | LABOR’S COMPANY | VOL.5, ISSUE 2 | SUMMER 2017 MESSAGE FROM THE CEO: The Best is Yet to Come On Labor Day, we pause to remember and honor the struggles and sacrifices that the labor movement endured in pursuit of fair wages, safe working conditions, pensions to retire on after a lifetime of hard work, and respect in the workplace. Unfortunately, we know the fight to maintain those rights continues today. In fact, the assault on workers continues unabated. Witness the efforts to pass legislation in states around the country authorizing Right-to-Work, the repeal of Prevailing Wage Acts, the elimination of Project Labor Agreements, and Dues check- off provisions, to name just a few. Continued on page 2 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 1 Message from the CEO 3 Commercial Package Policy for Joint Apprenticeship Training Committees Now Available 4 A Secure Tomorrow Starts with Your Life Insurance Today 5 J for Jobs Embraces Defined Contribution Plans 6 Protect Your Organization (and Yourself) From Data Breaches 8 Employees Recognized for Outstanding Work 10 Welcome to Our New Clients International Brotherhood of Boilermakers MESSAGE FROM THE CEO: Every year, we renew our commitment to provide the best The Best is Yet to Come products in the marketplace, because we understand a Continued from cover page simple truth: Future success requires a dedication to constant innovation. So, we are designing the products of tomorrow, For unions and their members, Labor Day calls for a today. Products like our Ullico Infrastructure Fund, designed reflection on the past and present, but most urgently on the for labor to invest in itself while renewing America’s future. Where is the labor movement and where is it headed? considerable infrastructure needs into the next century. Stop Those are the questions that we at Ullico have thought about loss policies designed to protect health and welfare funds and acted on for the past 90 years. from large claim exposure in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. Cyber liability represents the new frontier in insurance coverage, and we are meeting that challenge with policies Every year, we renew our designed specifically for the union market. commitment to provide the best At Ullico, we look confidently to the future and the UCG visits UA Local 5 JATC to learn exposures firsthand products in the marketplace... continuation of our historic partnership with the labor movement. We thank our great board of directors for their leadership and guidance, and all of our customers and Since our founding in 1927, Ullico has played a unique role consultants for their belief and trust in us. Finally, thank you Commercial Package Policy for Joint Apprenticeship in the labor movement by developing products that meet to our dedicated employees who give 110 percent every day the needs of working men and women. We were a company to serve the unions and their members. As Frank Sinatra Training Committees Now Available created to provide life insurance to union members when would say, “The best is yet to come.” coverage was not frequently available to them, and we still provide that coverage today. Forty years ago, we expanded Ullico Casualty Group, LLC recently “Brokers have asked us to find a property by creating our J for Jobs investment platform to create announced the availability of a new and casualty solution for training facilities,” It covers just the right competitive returns on pension fund investments and put commercial lines insurance product says Craig Arneson, Vice President of union members and contractors to work. Thirty years ago, for joint apprenticeship training Operations. “We worked with our carrier amount, and the premium we developed state of the art fiduciary and union liability Edward M. Smith committees (JATCs). partners to create this product in response is far less in most cases insurance to protect fund trustees, union leaders and President and CEO to the needs of our customers, and it members. Everything we do is designed to protect and grow Ullico Inc. “We’ve always had property and casualty complements our professional liability than the standard package the labor movement. We understand the labor market like no insurance products for unions and their insurance for JATCs to help provide the other, because we are labor’s own insurance company. funds’ office exposure. Now we have an coverages our clients need.” policies in the market. additional line tailored to JATCs,” says Alieu Jallow, Commercial Lines Manager. PROTECT YOUR UNION HALL Ullico Casualty Group also offers In other words, if the union loses The new insurance product goes beyond commercial lines insurance to protect everything and has to start fresh as a standard policies to address the unique union halls, trust fund offices, and other result of the building burning down or risks that JATCs face after trainees leave union-related entities. The products stand some other type of disaster, this policy is Congratulations! the school. “A standard package policy out in the market for their attention to the intended to provide coverage. “Instead covers JATCs if something happens to a unique needs that unions face. of guessing at the particular Business student or visitor at the locations,” says Income limit they need, unions can Union Labor Life was upgraded from a Stable Jallow. “But it doesn’t cover what can “Our commercial products are not obtain coverage by this policy for the happen after a student leaves the JATC something we pulled off the shelf,” says actual losses sustained,” says Jallow. Outlook to a Positive Outlook on its issuer facility. This new product fills that void.” Arneson. “We talked to a lot of different “It covers just the right amount of carriers to put together something that exposure, and in some cases can reduce Credit Rating of “bbb” from A.M. Best Rating. For instance, if a trainee causes bodily meets the needs of our market.” the premium compared to the standard harm to someone else on the job, the package policies in the market.” injured party might sue the JATC, For example, a business owner’s policy alleging that their injuries resulted from covers general risks, such as the property improper training. Without the right and related exposures, but we also offer LEARN MORE ABOUT ULLICO coverage, JATCs can face severe financial an endorsement enhancement that gives CASUALTY GROUP’S COMMERCIAL costs as a result of litigation. $250,000 in blanket limits for accounts INSURANCE LINES: receivable, electronics, valuable papers, as ULLICO.COM/CASUALTY well as business income loss by that union. 2 | ULLICO BULLETIN | SUMMER 2017 VOL. 5, ISSUE 2 | SUMMER 2017 | 3 more life insurance say they don’t make the purchase because J for Jobs Embraces A Secure Tomorrow Starts with Your they have other financial priorities, or they can’t afford it. However, prior research shows that, on average, people estimate 2 Defined Contribution Life Insurance Today life insurance to cost three times what it actually does. The second reason individuals do not buy life insurance is that Plans September is Life Insurance Awareness I put $10 in a bank and die tomorrow percent of U.S. households recognize they haven’t been approached to buy life insurance. Our 90-year Month, a public campaign that my family will get $10, while if I put the need for more life insurance. history as a life insurance provider and our commitment to A new investment product from Ullico gives reminds us of how important it is the same money in a life insurance Even if someone in the household labor makes us an excellent match for unions and their members individuals with 401k retirement plans the to plan for tomorrow. In the event company and die tomorrow my family does have life insurance, 48 percent to put their trust in us for their life insurance needs. opportunity to participate in the company’s that an untimely death occurs, life may get as much as $2,000.” 1 of households are in need of more flagship real estate investment product. insurance helps families meet financial life insurance, based on LIMRA’s Life Union Labor Life is dedicated to providing the protection 2 obligations and maintain Insurance Needs Model. union members and their families need. When it comes to life Launched in April, the Ullico J for Jobs financial security during a insurance, union members who are part of the 48 percent of U.S. Collective Investment Fund (CIF) was created difficult time. Protecting union members Group life insurance is a cost- households needing more coverage can rely on Union Labor Life by the Hand Composite Employee Benefit effective way for union leaders to bridge the gap. Trust and sponsored by Hand Benefits & Trust “Protecting union members and their families through life to provide the base level of Company. With the addition of CIF, Ullico now and their families through insurance was why our company life insurance protection their CONTACT US offers solutions to unions with defined benefits life insurance was why our members need. Access to more For more information on our Group Term Life insurance, and defined contributions plans. company was formed 90 years was formed 90 years ago... robust benefits is one of the please contact: ago,” says Dan Wolak, president key reasons workers become “We still think defined benefit plans are the best of The Union Labor Life members of a union. Union Larry Paradise way to address retirement, but J for Jobs also Insurance Company (Union Labor Today, a 40-year-old non-smoking leaders acknowledge that a good Vice President of Group Sales has an important role in defined contribution Life).