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It has become the equivalent of a showdown in the old west with two gunfighters standing in the middle of a dusty street while on-watchers wait for pistols to be drawn and someone killed. The

As consumers, state lawmakers, regulators, and executive officers enter the final month before the possible end of the state's automobile no-fault personal insurance protection law, more attention is

I've often said in this column there's no one of us smarter than all of us, and the pages of this magazine each month have been precisely the proof I needed to make my case. Now, I'm going to

Let's get the dirty little secret right out in the open: Personal lines is the redheaded stepchild of the independent insurance agency system. Its detractors say it's high-volume, low-profit business best left to

Making a merger or acquisition successful means finding effective ways to deal with data stored in multiple systems. Deciding whether to consolidate, integrate, or maintain the status quo depends on a

Our story is of a family agency and a specialty. The agency was originally started in 1919 by my grandfather and his brother under the name J & H Cohen. In the 1930s, my father entered the business, and the agency