Personal Lines

Referrals are the lifeblood of the high net worth business. Here's how agents can get more of them.

Many are traveling by motor coach as a relaxing way to see the country, but what about insuring their ride?

Amendments made to a California bill that would require minimum insurance standards for ridesharing have eased opposition from companies like Lyft and Uber which, for the past year, have been waging war with state lawmakers on the issue.

What skills do adjusters need for professional success in 2014? Certainly, technical skills are a must. This includes a working knowledge of law, medicine, construction, insurance policy content and interpretation, and subject-matter expertise specific to the claims they handle. Aside from technical skills, though, successful adjusters need soft skills.

We have a new kind of video camera for the investigator. But, we are not the ones filming, photographing and documenting our cases. The world is filming and photographing for us.

There has been a recent spate of articles in various publications about the Internet of Things or IoT. At first blush, the non-techies eyes glaze over when new and emerging technologies are the topic of conversation. Techies, as we know, have been into the IoT for several years. But to...