SPECIAL REPORT: Salute to Independent Agents

Twenty-nine year old Peter Webb served his country in the U.S. Marines for eight years. Since then, Sergeant Webb has spent four years serving small businesses as an account manager and producer for an Oklahoma City independent agency. Now just as his insurance career is solidifying, Webb is facing deployment to Iraq within the year as a member ...

Features

Editor's Note: Spring ritual

Disruptive Forces in the Insurance Industry: Constructive or chaotic?

Mentoring process is at the core of new producer development

Habitational properties get closer to home

Safety group dividend program gives profits back to habitational insureds

Premium growth: Should it be measured by company or by group?

Globalization of directors and officers coverage

Idea Exchange: Insider Trading Plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

Idea Exchange: 2007 Agency Salary Survey says ...

Idea Exchange: Brokers experience no shortage in M&A activity in first quarter 2007

Idea Exchange: 10 free and easy ways to drive traffic to your agency's Web site

Closing Quote: McCarran-Ferguson emerges as No. 1 threat to independent agents

It Figures: It Figures

Declarations: Declarations

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Currents

• Coastline populations increasing insurance prices
• Utah Court: Agents should take care when making verbal statements
• Arizona Appeals Court: Pain not equal to injury in workers' comp claim
• Wash. lawmakers OK Insurance Fair Conduct Act
• Bush administration rejects pleas for federal disaster plan
• Congressional hearings examine the need for national disaster solution
• Banks' total insurance revenue dipped
• SEC agrees to ease Sarbanes-Oxley rules for small firms
• Lloyd's posts more than $7 billon in record pre-tax profit

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