Agency Management

Many agency owners aspire to keep their firms privately held.

This top-notch trio were focused on the future, provided robust recruitment and retention programs, and emphasized "high-tech, high-touch" efforts.

A winning business model, a corporate culture focused on employee ownership and a commitment to "doing things right" in their communities helped earn Denver-based IMA Financial Group

Editorial Advisory Board Member Jeff Grady stands up for the industry and offers some encouraging words for 2011.

Independent agents are tired of losing personal lines market share to direct writers and they will be fighting back in 2011, said the new chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA).

The Department of Health and Human Services last night issued a statement that it will allow great flexibility to employers in applying medical loss ratio (MLR) standards to certain health plans under the health care reform law.