Agency Management

U.S. Senate leaders can't be serious about proposed penalties in their health care reform legislation, imposed against those who don't buy insurance. The

Despite its reputation for risk aversion, insurance organizations are engaging in more technology innovation than the industry is given credit for, a report from the consulting firm Celent said.

The world's two biggest insurance brokers earned a 100 percent positive rating on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender issues from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation earlier this fall.

What ethical obligations, if any, do insurance companies and independent agencies and brokerages have in developing a more diverse industry workforce by recruiting, training and promoting more women and minorities in their respective ends of the business?

Holding up a glass filled with white milk, Tyronne Stoudemire, global director of diversity and inclusion for Hewitt Associates, poured in some chocolate syrup--which promptly settled to the bottom until it was vigorously stirred.

Crime insurance and fidelity bonds provide only limited protection to financial institutions and other insureds seeking to recover losses from fraudulent operations like mortgage scams and Ponzi schemes, experts said here.