Commentary

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...

One of the rules I learned early on was that no matter how good the insurance coverage is, a business can never, ever recoup all the losses it suffers during a period of business interruption.

Opportunity is knocking for insurance agents seeking to bring new blood into their agencies. All they need to do is not follow the shortsighted discriminatory practices of which some employers are being accused.

No one likes to be singled out when bad news strikes—and goodness knows, The Hartford had enough bad news from the financial collapse of 2008—but technology observers believe being the victim of hackers is not so much an “if” proposition as a “when.”