Agency Management

The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors has named Susan Waters as its chief executive officer.

Pulling-the-plug-on-grandma scenarios. The N-word and other ugly epithets. Shouts of "baby killers." Vanquished politicos exhorting mobs, "Don't Retreat, Reload." Bricks crashing through windows of congressional offices.

Discussing general insurance matters with your clients is difficult enough. However, when the topic is the complicated, emotionally charged issue of long-term care insurance (LTCI), you are now involved in one very difficult presentation.

Florida's top insurance regulator told his bosses at the March 23 cabinet meeting that the state's property insurance market remains fragile despite no hurricanes hitting the state of Florida for the last four years.

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.