Commentary

What is litigation financing? It’s when lenders provide upfront loans to claimants in exchange for an interest in the outcome of their claim or litigation—and it's becoming more pervasive in recent economic times.

Customer Communications Management, long established as a need in the insurance industry, is gaining momentum as a primary discipline. But has the industry really made progress?

There is no more competitive market in the insurance world than personal lines. We don’t need any more examples of this than the amount of time we spend watching advertisements on television for our favorite insurers.

Readers weigh in on a dilemma proposed by Question Of Ethics Columnist Peter R. Kensicki regarding an agent’s obligation to report payroll misstatements that were discovered while preparing a proposal for a potential client. They consider duties to the proposed insurer, current insurer and the potential insured.

Will carriers seek to grow profitability by buying up books of business or small companies as a whole and reducing their infrastructure?

Charlie Sheen is back in the news, the latest that he may be rejoining the cast of Two and a Half Men—meaning the show would go back into production! It seems only yesterday that I read he was suing his former employers, who in fact fired him from the show...