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Reducing E&O Exposures: What Agents Need to Know

Certificates of Insurance, Data Breaches, Unfamiliar Markets Among Exposures for Agents Insurance agents who fail to keep up with changing legislation, regulations, policies and forms are opening themselves up to costly errors and omissions (E&O) claims, according to experts and …

What Agents Can Do

Several steps agents can take to reduce their general E&O exposure: Sally: “By far, the most common claim is simply an allegation of failure to place coverage. The most reliable way to prevent these is written documentation that says, ‘This …

How an E&O Claim Could Affect Agency Employee’s Career

Survey Finds Agencies Take a Second Look at Hiring Employees With Past E&O Histories Today’s soft insurance market, reduced commissions and a tough economy for agency owners and their clients might be adding to agency errors and omissions (E&O) exposures. …

Terminating Employment: It Doesn’t Have to Be Painful

Leaders likely have or at some point will need to make the decision to terminate a team member’s employment. Parting ways with an employee can be one of the most intimidating and difficult things to do as a leader. To …

Top 100 Agency Profile

Rank: 6 Agency Name: The ISU Group Year Founded: 1979 Headquarters: San Francisco, Calif. Approx. 100 additional locations nationwide Principals: T.J. Ryan III, CEO; Steven C. Pearson, president, ISU International % Commercial: 44% % Benefits: 13% % Personal: 43% 2009 …

Reducing E&O Exposures: What Agents Need to Know

Data Breach, Privacy Claims and Certificates of Insurance Costly Exposures for Agents Insurance agents who fail to keep up with ever-changing legislation, regulations, policies and forms are opening themselves up to costly insurance errors and omissions (E&O) claims, and even …

E&O Insights: Professional Liability

Nothing Standard About This Line of Business Typically, when looking to move an account from one carrier to another, you can count on some degree of similarity in policy forms. For the most part, a general liability policy with one …

Berkley: Economic Recovery Depends on Country’s State of Mind

Economic recovery in the United States is now very dependent on the state of mind of the American public and its business leaders, according to William R. Berkley, founder, chairman and CEO of W.R. Berkley Corporation. “No one in Washington …

What Agents Can Do

Several steps agents can take to reduce their general E&O exposure: Sally: “By far, the most common claim is simply an allegation of failure to place coverage. The most reliable way to prevent these is written documentation that says, ‘This …

Agency Saved From the Storm by Cloud Technology

In the midst of a disaster, our customers count on us to get our jobs done … No excuses!” That promise by County Wide Insurance, an agency in Dexter, Mo., was severely tested on Jan. 27, 2009, when an ice …