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Best-in-class program writers

Today’s competitive specialty program marketplace requires attention to detail, including efficiency, professionalism and ethics. One way to stand out above...

Personality plus or minus in sales

By Carletta Neal
How to use a producer’s unique personality traits in sales A necessary evil. That’s how some people might describe insurance....

Declarations

Are the elves at work? “Just because it’s close to Christmas doesn’t mean the governor has to be Santa Claus....

THE LOCOMOTIVE

N10 INSURANCE TRAIN Excess and surplus lines market continues to push growth, innovation 8 Safeco Lists on NYSE CEO Reynolds...

Sales Management

A necessary evil. That’s how some people might describe insurance. A producer’s job, of course, is to turn this kind...

Five keys to captive success

Whether you’re talking about road contractors or hospitals or agents and brokers, every organization has in-house expertise. And you want...

Declarations

Contingent commission ban “Many industries — not just the insurance industry — rely on performance-based compensation, which is legal, honest...