{"id":640,"date":"2022-10-12T20:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apextrading.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2022-10-12T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:37:20","slug":"understanding-do-insurance-for-cannabis-businesses-an-overview-by-ncia-member-jon-spratt-from-greensite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/12\/understanding-do-insurance-for-cannabis-businesses-an-overview-by-ncia-member-jon-spratt-from-greensite\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding D&#038;O Insurance for Cannabis Businesses &#8211; An Overview by NCIA member Jon Spratt from Greensite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a great article published yesterday on the NCIA blog by Jon Spratt of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensiteinsurance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greensite Insurance<\/a>. In the piece Spratt gives a great overview of the importance of Directors &amp; Officers (D&amp;O) Insurance. If you\u2019re the leader of a cannabis company and aren\u2019t familiar with this type of insurance, it\u2019s probably a good idea to start here. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Member Blog: Understanding D&amp;O Coverage for the Cannabis Industry<\/strong><br \/>\nBecause of the challenging landscape, cannabis organizations have some unique risks they may face while running their businesses including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High investor expectations and limited access to capital<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The federal status of cannabis<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Varying trade practices from state to state<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of bankruptcy protections\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased merger &amp; acquisition activity\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State-by-state licensing requirements<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cannabis-specific local, state, and federal tax laws<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecannabisindustry.org\/member-blog-understanding-do-coverage-for-the-cannabis-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about Apex Trading&#8217;s wholesale cannabis business management software and how it can help your company streamline operations and create efficiencies with inventory, order and sales processes, please request a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apextrading.com\/demos\">demo by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a great article published yesterday on the NCIA blog by Jon Spratt of Greensite Insurance. In the piece Spratt gives a great overview of the importance of Directors &amp; Officers (D&amp;O) Insurance. If you\u2019re the leader of a cannabis company and aren\u2019t familiar with this type of insurance, it\u2019s probably a good idea to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}