Articles by Regina Stephenson

Regina Stephenson
Regina Stephenson is a writer and editor concentrating on the financial services industry, most specifically insurance and insurtech. Since insurance regulation and legislation already make for dry tinder, Regina specializes in setting it alight with blogs that inform and entertain the compliance and operations teams of insurance agencies, carriers, and MGAs alike. By taking an inside-the-community approach to compliance news, her witty exposure of changing regulations and the inflection points of insurance technology keep the insurance industry current. Her previous experiences include ghostwriting and publishing books for independent financial professionals and serving as an online editor at CJOnline.com. Regina enjoys breaking down complex topics into bite-sized, understandable pieces, and is passionate about good storytelling. Outside of her professional work, you can find Regina parenting four kids alongside husband Adam, waging war on the chaos of their fixer-upper bungalow, or reading and watching fantasy escapist stories.

Flatten Your Onboarding with AgentSync Manage and Onboarding Portals

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Are your producers tired of entering (and re-entering) their answers five different ways into slight variations of the Uniform Producer Application every time they apply for a new license or …

Making the Case for Investing in Your Distribution Channel Management

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. When your team has come to the conclusion that your current vendor, process, or (let’s be honest) spreadsheet isn’t working, you need to get buy-in across your larger organization. Easy, …

What Talent Gap? Making Adjuster Management a Recruiting Point with AgentSync

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Onboarding processes are often a barrier to recruiting and retaining talented claims adjusters, but one innovative insurance services firm flipped the script by overhauling their adjuster onboarding to boost their …

Not Only the Fires Are Wild: California and the P&C Market Outlook

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. After years of watching insurance carriers exit the California property and casualty market, the state may see another exodus in the wake of the January 2025 wildfires and the historic …

Path to Profitability: Market Risks Facing Agencies and Carriers for Medicare Open Enrollment 2025

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. At first glance, having the most profitable Medicare season comes down to matching your distribution channels to the anticipated size of the market opportunity in a particular state and planning …

2025 Insurance Carrier Appointment Renewals for Individual Producers

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. New Year, new resolutions, like growing your distribution channel while maintaining compliance! To help you stay on top of your initial appointments, AgentSync Manage and Autopilot use our API-powered architecture …

6 Variations on Producer Licensing for Travel Lines

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. You and your bestie booked a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country train trip to celebrate your biggest professional accomplishment to date. What could go wrong? Sadly, an emergency appendectomy derails your plans two …

7 Ways Carriers Can Leverage Compliance Data for Business Opportunities

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Historically, carriers have been inclined to treat compliance as a series of necessary checklist items to perform. But by shifting your mindset to see compliance as a function of superior …

Are You Thinking About Appointment Compliance All Wrong?

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Historically, compliance has been seen as a necessary evil for insurance carriers. The dynamic often pits compliance or operations teams against sales, it causes silos, and it sows division in …

3 Reasons Not to Get Your Adjusters a Florida DHS

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Adjuster licensing is famously terrible. Ask anyone who has ever been an adjuster. Or handled adjuster compliance. Or even regulated adjusters for their state department of insurance. There are a …