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While wholesale agents, brokers and carriers depend on a number of well-regarded excess and surplus lines associations to help develop business and protect their interests, individuals specifically
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Those questions and more are explored during a war game, in which companies develop strategies in response to a particular event and then challenge one another on how well those strategies would work
Those questions and more are explored during a war game, in which companies develop strategies in response to a particular event and then challenge one another on how well those strategies would work
(The following article was derived from Ms. Cunningham's presentation at the 2006 ASCNet "TENcon" annual meeting, which was held in September in Dallas.) ONE OF THE biggest challenges agents face today is achieving organic growth.
If an executive is foolhardy enough to act overly discriminatory, however, employers often have no alternative but to terminate the executive and to make amends to affected workers, thereby