Congress's stall to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has thrown the insurance market into disarray. With more than 5.6 million policies in effect, and so much at stake, what can agents and brokers do to advise their customers?
Now that the personal lines industry is finally seeing some relief with upward rate adjustments after a prolonged soft market, the time has never been better to align the agency workforce toward the power of consultative selling.
The niche collector car market, filled with enthusiastic, passionate owners of vintage vehicles, muscle cars, sports and exotic motorcars or classic automobiles, often is an untapped market for insurance agents.
In a slow economy, many agents and business owners are looking for ways to improve or stabilize the proverbial bottom line. One area to consider is the collector and classic car market.
Bill suffered a devastating fire to his custom home. Fortunately, no one in the family was home during the fire, but the house and its contents are nearly all destroyed. He contacts his insurance agent to make a claim. The home, not including
I started Chartwell Insurance Services 8 years ago on the premise that the high-net-worth individual was underserved in the personal lines insurance market. I had worked for years in the family agency and
Let's face it: Current market conditions mean that most agencies are in a substantial business slowdown, both for commercial and personal lines sales. Our agency is based in Des Moines, the most metropolitan
Whether you're a one-man operation or a large insurance agency, one of the many issues you're probably struggling with is how and when to contact your personal lines clients. In an ideal world, we would sit down with every client every