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In Race for New Personal Lines Insurance Business, Exclusive Agents at Disadvantage

Personal lines insurers have only one option when it comes to growing their business: they must steal market share from competitors. That’s because each year brings very few new customers. Only about two to three percent of personal lines customer …

Should you care about deductibles?

The deductible is such a familiar part of insurance that everyone thinks that they know everything about them. Yet, our customers have a different perspective on them. Our customers think that the deductible is just a way for us to …

Small Fleet Managers Would Choose Insurer for UBI Service: Survey

More than half of small fleet managers are likely to stay with their current insurance carriers rather than switching if their insurer offers usage-based insurance (UBI) programs, according to a new survey by analytics firm Lexis Nexis. If an alternate …

Travelers Insurance Finds Customers Stay Despite Rising Prices

Travelers Cos. Inc.’s quarterly profit handily beat Wall Street expectations as it charged more for insurance coverage while holding on to its customers, sending its shares up as much as 5 percent to an all-time high. Travelers, a Dow Jones …

Fewer Auto Insurance Buyers Shopping But More Switching Carriers: J.D. Powers

The auto insurance shopping rate has reached the lowest point in the past five years, with only 25 percent of insurance customers indicating they shopped for a new insurer in the past 12 months, down eight percentage points from 2011, …