Identity Theft Risks: Businesses BewareThe March arrest of a Brooklyn busboy who used the Internet to steal the identity--and millions of dollars--from some of the ...
Has there ever been a greater tool for the business world than e-mail? Forgetting paper clips and three-hole punches, the ability to send a written ...
Beware The Pitfalls Of Cross-Selling We all know how valuable cross-selling is to independent agencies. Numbers I have read suggest profit margins on the ...
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 ...
Insurance Fraudsters Send In The Clones, Investigators SayPalm Springs Insurance investigators meeting here list stolen car clones, Internet fraud scams and fraud kits provided over ...
Agents Must Break The Commodity CycleAs the insurance market hardens, many underwriters and producers are in a state of chaos. Underwriters are buried in submissions, ...
Power BreakfastNew York "The machine works very, very well," says Doug Leatherdale, almost matter-of-factly. He talks to us across tables heaped with scrambled eggs and ...
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 ...
Agents To Get Anti-Discrimination TrainingLooking to take advantage of potential business opportunities in urban areas, a Hartford-based insurer and an independent agent association announced the ...