Articles by Mark Robinson

Robinson is founding partner of Michelman & Robinson LLP, a national law firm headquartered in Los Angeles. He is an insurance industry specialist who primarily represents retail brokers and agents. Phone: (310)299-5500 or mrobinson@mrllp.com.

Referral Fees: A Multi-State Overview

No matter the business, customer referrals are always a welcome way to expand client bases and build trust within the marketplace. This is certainly true within the insurance space, where it is common practice for producers to incentivize friends, family …

What to Know When Selling Your Insurance Agency

Want to cash in? Suffering from burnout? Looking for a strategic partner? Itching to pursue other interests? Or is it simply time to have a family member or friend take over and grow the business? There are many reasons to …

Viewpoint: A New California Law Means New Obligations for Insurance Producers

Recent action by California Gov. Gavin Newsom should be of real interest to insurance agents and brokers doing business in the Golden State. With a swipe of his pen, Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1242, written by the Senate …

A Matter of National Security: Compliance with Foreign Assets Control Regulations

Many in the insurance space are blind to the fact that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is lurking in the shadows. A federal agency in the U.S. Department of Treasury responsible for the administration, implementation and enforcement of …

Permissible Broker-Agent Fees: It’s All a Matter of Geography

Oh, how things vary from state to state. This is particularly true when it comes to insurance laws. As insurance professionals know well, variations in state governance and regulation extend to the insurance space, with each state having its own …

What About Your Exposure?

As an insurance agent or broker, you have, above all else, a singular mission: to make certain insureds are adequately covered against exposure to loss or, at the very least, to help clients understand their liabilities and how they can …

What About Your Exposure?

As an insurance agent or broker, you have, above all else, a singular mission: to make certain insureds are adequately covered against exposure to loss or, at the very least, to help clients understand their liabilities and how they can …

Is Your Website ADA Compliant?

There’s trouble facing businesses nationwide, including those in the insurance space, coming in the form of lawsuits on behalf of visually impaired individuals against the owners and operators of websites not optimized for screen-reader technology. No industry seems to be …

Shootout with California Insurance Department Yet Another Headache for the NRA

Controversy has swirled around the National Rifle Association of late. Infighting that led to the ouster of Oliver North as the group’s president, its tenuous financial landscape and an investigation launched by the New York attorney general are just a …

A Case for Updated Insurance Licensing Exemption Regulations

Harken back to 2002 — a time when iPhones, Android phones, even Blackberries, had yet to be introduced. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were years away from their debuts, and streaming content on Netflix was still a fantasy — though there …