Marinescu is president of Paulmar Group LLC. Emma Hart, director of insurance agency operations, Orange County, Calif., and Steven M. Beckett Jr., a P/C insurance broker and industry consultant, also contributed to this article. Email: chris@paulmargroup.com.
August 6, 2012
The concept of trust account (TA) management has no meaning to many professionals, or they have no uniform understanding of it. There are no text books or college classes on insurance TA management, and insurance-based publications seldom organize discussions to …
June 4, 2012
This is the second article in a two-part series on general ledger accounting. Part one can be viewed online. Only a few years ago, general ledger (GL) accounting was considered adequate by the industry consultants and regulators. To the more …
May 23, 2012
In current practice insurance premium accounting is based on general ledger (GL) accounting. It is used by all agency management software applications: AMS, Applied Systems, etc., just to name a few. Developed more than 500 years ago, GL accounting has …
May 7, 2012
In current practice, insurance premium accounting is based on general ledger (GL) accounting. It is used by all agency management software applications including AMS and Applied Systems just to name a few. Developed more than 500 years ago, GL accounting …
April 17, 2006
Unlike other sales and service companies, independent insurance agencies have a management function in their daily operations. Most property and casualty insurance agencies agree not only to sell and service insurance products, but they also receive transacted premiums, maintain them …
March 20, 2006
Unlike other sales and service companies, independent insurance agencies have a management function in their daily operations. Most property and casualty insurance agencies agree not only to sell and service insurance products, but they also receive transacted premiums, maintain them …
December 5, 2005
California Insurance Code requires property and casualty insurance agencies to receive premiums and return premiums in a fiduciary capacity. Return premium funds must be maintained in a separate trust bank account and refunded to insureds or finance companies without delay. …
September 5, 2005
California Insurance Code requires P/C insurance agencies to receive premium funds in a fiduciary capacity. Producer agencies are allowed to transfer earned commissions upon receipt of premium payments. Due to the fiduciary nature of premium funds the transfer of earned …