While news headlines scream about the disastrous residential construction market, retail agents and brokers are quietly growing commercial construction business in a changing marketplace by building on strong relationships with their

Just call me The Amazing Mazzo. We weren't peering into a crystal ball last month when we wrote about the need to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), but we might as well have been. As

Are you feeling poorer this spring than last year at this time? You're not alone. If you go to the grocery store or the gas station (at more than four bucks a gallon, we

The future of automation and technology for independent insurance producers is finally starting to seep into the present. After decades of tug-of-war between agents, carriers and vendors, the last several years have brought more collaboration,

In early April the AAB crew joined independent agents and brokers in Washington, D.C. as they lobbied Capitol Hill with the Big I (see our Web site at www.agentandbroker.com for some video interviews from the conference).The topic on

How's the market for directors and officers (D&O) insurance? It all depends on whom you're talking to--and who your customer is. Increased litigation from the subprime meltdown has helped to create a bifurcated market, divided into