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Welcome to the October edition of the Barney & Barney e-newsletter. Through our monthly e-newsletter we hope to keep you updated on all that is going on with Barney & Barney as well as in the insurance industry as a whole.

Business Continuity Plan Enables Firm to Respond to Clients During Emergencies
Knowing that serving clients in the face of disaster is a top priority, Barney & Barney LLC has been improving its emergency response for several years by implementing a more advanced Business Continuity Plan and formulating an onsite emergency response team - an exercise that proved invaluable when the fires broke out.

Who's watching the Store? - The Insurance Audit
How can an owner best protect his or her critical assets that they have spent years building?

TTD Maximum To Increase Nearly 4 Percent In 2008
California's Division of Workers' Compensation yesterday announced that the maximum temporary total disability rate will increase to $916 on Jan. 1, 2008. A law enacted in 2006 requires that the rate move in relation to the state average weekly wage (SAWW) annually.

Fraud Commission Ups Employer Assessments
California employers will be paying $48.1 million in assessments to the Fraud Assessment Commission next year, the commission determined yesterday.