States’ Lawsuit Climates Influence Expansion Decisions, Say Businesses September 18, 2017 An all-time high 85 percent of senior business executives at major U.S. companies say a state’s lawsuit environment is likely...
5 Things You Can Do to Double New Business in Your Agency September 18, 2017 By Randy Schwantz An agency owner named John called me up and said in a very sober tone, “We need to double our...
Why Regulators Should Dump Anti-Rebating Laws September 18, 2017 By Richard A. Brown For the commercial property and casualty, and employee benefits segments of the insurance industry, anti-rebating laws are both nonsense and...
Why the Federal Flood Program Is Sinking Deeper into Debt: CBO Report September 18, 2017 By Andrew G. Simpson The federal flood insurance program is on a course to continue falling deeper in debt, even when there is no...
Irreplaceable You September 18, 2017 By Donna Gray When you sell insurance policies like every other agency, how can you stand out from the competition? Be irreplaceable. It’s...
Tech Talk: Speed-to-Value and the AI Revolution September 18, 2017 By Tom Wetzel The term “speed-to-value” has been around as a management maxim for decades but is being reborn in the digital age...
P/C Insurers Lost $5.1B on Underwriting in First Half of 2017 September 4, 2017 The U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry recorded a net underwriting loss of $5.1 billion for the first six months of 2017,...
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Andrew September 4, 2017 By Simon Tuck How the Insurance Industry Can Mitigate the Next Big Natural Disaster As an industry, we knew there could be large...
Brokers Bucking Disruption: How Wholesalers Hang On Through Change September 4, 2017 By Andrea Wells As long as there is an insurance industry, wholesaler brokers believe they will have a role to play. “We will...
Business Moves September 4, 2017 Widerman & Company, Smith Brothers Insurance Widerman & Company Insurance of Haddonfield, N.J., has merged its business with Smith Brothers...