Ashley, Awesome! Congrats on the healthcare! We're all US based, some Denver, some Silicon Valley, one guy's in Rhode Island, and I'm in Delaware.
Any tactics you used would be great to hear about! Please go ahead. Joshua On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Ashley Proctor <ash...@foundery.is> wrote: > Hi Joshua > > Where are you located? > > I designed COHIP (Coworking Health Insurance Plan) for all of the members > of the Coworking Ontario collective. > We are an informal collective of independent businesses (coworking spaces) > in Ontario Canada. > http://coworkingontario.ca/cohip > > The trick for us was convincing the insurance provider that the > organization (CoworkingOntario collective) was like the traditional > 'employer' and the member spaces (including their coworking members) were > like the traditional 'employees'. It took a year to convince the providers > of this new model. > We ARE shaping the future of work... > > I'd be happy to answer any specific questions you might have - feel free > to contact me directly. > > Ashley Proctor > > Foundery > Toronto, Canada > ash...@foundery.is > www.foundery.is > > > > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Joshua Marpet wrote: > > I have a bit of a weird insurance question. I'm helping out a hacker > crew, friends of mine, since the company a majority of them worked for > stopped paying them. Not folded and went under, just .... told them they > wouldn't be getting paychecks, since they ran out of money. Oh, and if you > take unemployment, you've quit and forfeited your job. Ignore this > situation, they;ve got lawyers involved. > > What we're doing is forming an association, if you will. (It's not > coworking, as we are geographically disparate) We're trading work, > references, etc. We're trying to figure out how to do liability, umbrella, > and E&O insurance for a price low enough for people to buy in. > > I looked up PEO's (Professional Employment Organizations), but I don't > think they fit the bill. > > I'm not asking a specific question, and for that, I apologize. I'm > looking for some guidance or advice, if anyone has any. > > Thanks!!! > > Joshua Marpet > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
