Cyber Terrorism: Is the Insurance Industry Prepared?A sampling of insurers in an exclusive survey by the Insurance Information Institute and TechDecisions indicates companies have beefed ...
Specialist or Generalist? One Size Doesnt Fit AllBy Lisa MurmanIndependent agency owners often debate the issue of whether their firms should be "generalists" or "specialists" ...
Selling Value, Not Price Creates Winning AgenciesBy Carl J. DeBarbrie Jr.By competing on personal relationship and price alone, independent agents and brokers create minimal barriers ...
Betterments Trigger Confounds Insureds Commercial property insurance forms typically list improvements and betterments as business personal property.Its one of those coverages thats just in there, ...
Consumer Groups Try To Push Big Brother Insurer Out Of Passenger SeatBy Michael HaFrom department of motor vehicle records to C.L.U.E. (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange), ...
SARS Excluded From Event Policies Exclusions for damages caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome are now common in event cancellation polcies, but have yet to ...
Best Practices For Agency Managers Means Looking Beyond The Numbers The past 10 years have brought huge change to the independent agency system. Agents and ...
Optimizing Supplier Relationships Perhaps more so than their brethren in other industries, financial services institutions, particularly insurance companies, rely extensively on outside suppliers for business ...
Its Time To Get Personal About Ethics Two years ago, in a survey of insurance professionals from the Central Texas CPCU Chapter, an overwhelming 82 ...
Real-Time Transactions Save Time I recently read about a centenarian independent agent. In 1903, most agents had no typewriter, no phone and no car. Of ...