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The month of July is now recognized as Disability Pride month, but individuals with disabilities still do not have full access to opportunities.

Heart disease remains – as it was in 1950 – the leading cause of death for men and women in most racial and ethnic groups.

Custom Surgical, one of 10 startups from around the world working with downtown Rochester’s Luminate accelerator at NextCorps, is helping to write Rochester’s next chapter in history as the world’s center for optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI).

Good and accepted practice requires that there be someone responsible for risk management, and that you have internal risk management controls.

Ask anyone in management or human resources and they will tell you that the hardest part of the job is letting people go, especially when it is through no fault of their own.

The world is more unpredictable than ever, and businesses need to be ready for a slew of new and existing risks to ensure continuity in the face of challenges.

The world of work is changing, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the prevalence and relevance of “gig workers.”

Recent trends in insurance show increases in demand for cybersecurity protection and growing interest in insurance for gig workers, but one particular trend according to local insurance professionals is an increase in customers looking to “bundle” policies.

It started with toilet paper. Before the COVID pandemic, Americans lived their lives blissfully inattentive to and uninformed about what we now know is essential infrastructure:

Everyone’s talking about the future of work and making predictions about the new or next normal. We all agree it’s different and evolving. We’re letting go of old beliefs and behaviors and experimenting with new ones. But as we do, ...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its expected ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overrules long-standing precedent (including Roe v. Wade) and allows individual states to regulate access to abortion services.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” implying that people go through their lives wanting more but accepting less. This column will focus on the others: Those not belonging to the “mass.”

The financial sector has seen significant technological advances in recent years as mobile banking becomes the norm for most Americans.

When I started my television career as a college intern a grizzled senior reporter offered me valuable advice. He said the worst thing that was going to happen was the word "no."

The prevailing sentiment in the middle market continues to be optimism – but with an important caveat.