Market Insights

Dave Springer Even in today's soft market, smart brokers know it's a mistake to focus solely on finding the lowest price

Florida is well known for its hurricane damage, but as the recent wildfires in South Florida showed, there is more than one kind of disaster that Mother Nature can wreak in the state. Because of the

One of the dangers of the legislative process, and indeed the industry itself, is that money loses its conventional meaning. By that, I mean it stops becoming the dollar bills handed over to the

When hiring staff, I always consider such qualifications as job history, professional skills, interpersonal skills (the airplane test--could you sit next to this person on a plane for the next 14

At 114 pages, this year's homeowners' insurance reform package touches on many issues familiar to those who have followed the legislative course of homeowners' reforms since Governor Charlie Crist

Agents, brokers, carriers, and the occasional regulator generally agree that Florida's insurance code is probably the most detailed and complex in the country. As a result, agents and brokers