The safety policies and procedures that are put in place by companies across Colorado to mitigate risk, avoid accidents and benefit consumers would all be jeopardized by Amendment 69.
There are industry winners, and then there's everybody else. The characteristics of today's top insurance brokerages are well documented, but not easy to achieve.
Each year around this time, we return to the CIAB offices with an electric energy fed by our annual Employee Benefits Leadership Forum. In what is shaping up to be a healthcare revolution, employee benefits brokers are in the drivers seat.
Its been particularly frustrating to watch what has been happening with the state implementation of the Dodd-Frank provisions regarding surplus lines insurancethe Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act.
For years, agents and brokers have pursued an elusive goal: streamlined risk submission to multiple carriers that reduces policy errors and increases pricing and underwriting precision. That goal seems to be within reach.
In today's challenging marketplace, it is easy to blame all the problems of insurance intermediaries on the soft cycle or the underlying economic uncertainty, from unemployment to the mortgage crisis. But
Brokers Help Clients, Economy EndureSince Sept. 11, the nation has focused on tragic loss, recovery, and resolve to travel a difficult road ahead. It is ...
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