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Former American International Group Chief Executive Officer Maurice Greenberg arrived on Capitol Hill last week to tell a House panel how the government should fix AIG, but heard a congressman call him the wrong witness because of his own legal problems.
It's time for independent agencies that do an outstanding job selling insurance and providing risk management services for their clients to prepare their entries for NU's "Commercial Insurance Agency Of The Year" award program for 2009.
Rather than just steering business to carriers that offer the lowest price or highest compensation, it turns out the closer a carrier's relationship is with its independent agents, the more auto and homeowners insurance producers will send its way.
The Travelers Company Inc. announced that while it will begin more aggressively marketing direct personal lines business over the Internet, the carrier still strongly backs its independent agent channel.
In the midst of our worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, everyone is eager to choose one target as the scapegoat for the entire financial mess. Not surprisingly, most are pinning a good part of the blame on AIG
The questions posed to readers in NU's latest "Question Of Ethics" were: (1) Is this ethical concern warranted, and (2) How can any ethical concerns be addressed?
More coordination is needed among the panoply of organizations seeking to make insurance industry technology more uniform and user-friendly for agents, according to the new president of the AMS Users Group.
With a new administration in power, an economic crisis in full bloom and insurance at the top of the news because of problems at AIG, there never was a more critical time for independent agents to make their voices heard in Washington.
Too many agency acquisitions fail because one or both parties don't do enough--or the right kind of--due diligence. Before taking the dangerous plunge to acquire another insurance agency--or be