Steven P. Beaty, Bankers Insurance Group Steve Beaty is senior vice president and CIO of Bankers Insurance Group, a $385 million-premium carrier based in St. ...
Can Insurers Handle Losses?The forces of two 767-planes flown deliberately into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center destroyed buildings that were said ...
Agents Miss Cross-Selling Opportunities Agents are missing a huge opportunity to expand their sales beyond property-casualty insurance products by allowing their clients to purchase their ...
Agents Rev Up Engines To Become Sales Machines Bad habits and a hardening insurance market can conspire against independent agents to make selling difficult, but ...
Specialty Brokers Move To Online Tools Despite the traumatic downturn in dot-com businesses, within the insurance industry there remain a number of offerings aimed at ...
Are Performance-Based Incentives Ethical?Is it ethical for insurance professionals to be subject to performance-based incentives, and would disclosure to those who are served by the ...
Vendors Automate Processing Tasks Like managing general agencies and wholesale brokers, there are a growing number of Web-based companies situated between retail agents and property-casualty ...
Ignore Cyber-risks At Your Peril: Experts"Cyber-risks," the threats posed to computer and Internet systems by hackers, viruses and other sources, are too frequent and costly ...