How Analytics Technology Can Speed Integration Post-M&A May 4, 2015 By Kabir Syed The record number of merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions involving insurance brokers and agents throughout the United States in the...
What Agents Think About Google Compare May 4, 2015 By Andrea Wells The independent agency system is no stranger to competition. But one new competitor in the marketplace has some agents and...
‘Hungry’ Insurers Continued to Cut Commercial Prices in Q1: CIAB May 4, 2015 Insurance brokers report that the commercial property/casualty market continued to soften in the first quarter of 2015, with large accounts...
It’s a Buyers’ Market May 4, 2015 By Andrea Wells Insurance buyers can expect to face friendly market conditions on most lines of insurance for the remainder of 2015 thanks...
Independent Agents Identify Business Opportunities for Carriers May 4, 2015 Most independent insurance agents are impressed by the carriers they place business with – but most also are interested in...
10 Things to Know About Recreation & Leisure May 4, 2015 Children ages 5 to 14 accounted for 52 percent of the football injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2012. –...
Beating Up on Workers’ Comp: Grand Bargain Taking Jabs from Multiple Directions May 4, 2015 By Andrew G. Simpson The state-based workers’ compensation system has stayed on its feet for 100 years in part by being able to defend...
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E&O Insights: Insuring Restaurants and Taverns Presents Some Real E&O Risks May 4, 2015 By Curtis M. Pearsall Although most agencies insure at least one restaurant or tavern, this shouldn’t suggest that they are easy accounts to write....
Best of the Best: Supply and Demand May 4, 2015 By Sarah Lucas Commanding the Highest Purchase Price The dust has settled from 2014 and, next to 2012, produced the highest number of...