Last week’s Congressional vote to eliminate the so-called death tax has the Independent Insurance Agents of America very pleased, though...
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The passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act marked a watershed in U.S. financial regulation, opening up the banking, insurance and securities...
In his book, “The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman defines globalization as “the inexorable...
Trolling for new business leads has been the bane of insurance agents for decades. Electronic data mining has eased the...
The commercial property/casualty insurance market continues to harden, according to a survey conducted by the Council of Insurance Agents &...
Nobody likes to lose their shirt, least of all insurers. So it’s no surprise that, following the huge losses caused...
Last October, Lloyd’s produced a working document entitled “Developing Broker Relationships,” which proposed sweeping changes in the accreditation and regulation...
The exhibit hall at the ACORD Technology Conference in Orlando last month would have made your head spin. On the...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has completed four insurance agency acquisitions, purchasing Davis-Poston & Assoc. of Dallas; Bultman/Bell Associates of...
iwix.net, a specialty insurance portal, has secured $5 million in first round venture capital funding. All of the funding is...