I always enjoy D's and Lonestar's insightful perspectives on these subjects. Here's mine: I discovered online leads shortly after I opened my independent agency in South Florida just under 10 years ago while waiting for my first Yellow Pages ad to be published. That first year, YP still worked great...

I'm in Florida and Foremost cut it to 9% new, 8% renewal. That's the lowest of any auto carrier I have ever represented in 22 years as an IA. Even Progressive is 12% and 10% for us. It's simply not profitable. Luckily, our book is not large with them but Foremost will certainly not get another piece...

I only know about this case what I have read in this forum and in the NY Times article from the above link. And I'm no claims expert, just a long-time insurance agent. But a few things have irked me about some of these posts. Looks to me like Progressive made an early determination that their insure...

I found a decent workaround for the Acord printing problem in QuickFile. I'm on the Enterprise Edition. Instead of printing to create the pdf, choose email, then email the acords to yourself. It will then create one pdf document with all pages instead of the one page at a time thing. You can then co...