"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," Neil Sedaka observed. It's difficult for an insurance professional to fire a client, just as it is for any other businessperson, especially in an economic downturn, when new clients may be scarce.
The FTC's new red flags rule requires service providers--including insurance agencies and brokerages and many of their business customers--to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs by Nov. 1.
In the looking-glass world of professional liability claims against insurance agents and brokers, words that we take as clear can become unrecognizably twisted and fraught with ambiguity.
In most professions, the generalist, the so-called "jack of all trades," has become an endangered species. TV's kindly general practitioner Dr. Marcus Welby could treat everything from a hangnail to
Online sites that tout insurance brokers' services are great sources of information for Web-savvy policyholders. They can also be goldmines for less welcome visitors: plaintiffs' lawyers looking for
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