Agency Management

The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers is partnering with LexisNexis to build a Web-based insurance exchange for independent producers, with test runs set to begin next summer.

The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York are offering their members tools to help explain the benefits of a career in insurance in ways that younger students and workers can relate to.

The announcement that Arthur J. Gallagher has received permission to receive contingent commissions from insurers once more was met with both positive and negative comments from within the commercial insurance community.

The health insurance industry is very nervous about the reform bills making their way through Congress, and rightfully so.

There's been a lot of talk on the acquisition front by excess and surplus lines insurance companies, but little action to date--even in a year that followed back-to-back declines in organic growth for the segment overall.

Commercial insurers wondering what they need to do to attract and hang on to their customers got an earful from the 411 buyers responding to open-ended questions about what they want from their carriers.