Agency Management

Even the most optimistic forecasters concede that the climb out of this Great Recession will continue to be steep and arduous. Florida, especially, has been hammered with high unemployment, mortgage failures, and tumbling property values.

A specialist in the life and health markets offers her opinion on the federal health-care reform package.

Not even a still-fragile economy can keep members of Florida's insurance associations from their annual gatherings. Find out where agents, brokers, and industry and carrier representatives will be meeting across the state in the coming months.

My neighbor's home caught fire two years ago after being hit by lightning. Frankly, thunderstorms scare me more than the threat of hurricanes because we have them more often. But I guess there's not much we can do to about it.

After years of fighting between politicians and Florida's property insurers, it appears that the state's private carriers may be on the verge of getting the ability to raise their rates by a limited amount.

Vernon D. Smith has been much in the insurance news lately, as the poster boy for certain transactions