Direct Deposit Service Takes The Hassle Out Of Payment ProcessingA Northeastern-based insurance underwriter is working with its independent agent base to make payments hassle-free, and ...
Insurance Clusters May Bring Comparative Rating To Small AgenciesThe advantage of joining an insurance cluster, say executives, is the economy of scale it offers to ...
Training Budgets Must Be Sacred CowsAs the property-casualty industry struggles to manage expense ratios, training and education budgets become a tempting target.It becomes relatively painless ...
Risk Managers Must Broaden Educational Horizon To Survive If youre like most risk managers, youre lucky to make it through your most crucial tasks by ...
Innovative Training Avoids 'Brain Drain'While conducting a program at a large branch office of a regional insurance company last spring, I learned that 20 percent ...
Time Is Money: Agents Try Tech To Limit Training CostsThe biggest training expense for independent agents is not necessarily the money spent on courses or ...
Outsourcing Can Bolster Fraud FightingIn the insurance investigations business in the United States today, one fact has become clear. The ability to forge, manage and ...
Market Ripe For Surplus Lines BrokersToday's insurance market is driven by common sense rather than a lack of capacity, and provides an opportunity for the ...
Multifunctional Devices Speed Workflow, Save Money For AgentsMultifunctional devices--all-in-one machines that can print, copy, fax, and often scan--might play a key role in helping agents ...
Meeting Terror Risk Modeling ChallengeLast Septembers attack on the World Trade Center revealed that insurance companies are heavily exposed to potential catastrophic losses from man-made ...