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An agency owner dreads the scenario that an employee leaves the agency and takes customers, prospects, employees and proprietary information with him or her to a new job. When this happens, the agency loses more than its investment in the employee....
It’s October and you know what that means—Halloween! Out will come the scaries and ghoulies, the warlocks and witches, and the Spidermans on every block.
But when, oh, when, will someone come to our door as Svengoolie?
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Things gradually may be getting back to normal in the global stock markets, at least compared to events last year, when Lehman Brothers tanked and AIG and others were in crisis mode after their subprime mortgage
investments collapsed.
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Remain diligent and focused on the insurance market and the economy as you maneuver the remainder of 2009 and into 2010. ...
The duty to defend is always broader than the duty to indemnify. California case law, and that of most states, requires that the insurer provide a defense if there is “potential” that coverage applies....
Twitter, tweets, tweeters (or twitterers, rhymes with widowers, which is ironic because obsessive users can make their loved ones feel abandoned) are just some of the words used to describe this latest rage....
As president of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), an organization of state lawmakers dedicated to sound insurance public policy, I know first-hand the benefits of state regulation for insurance consumers....
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A new national survey by Rasmussen Reports shows 66 percent of those questioned oppose allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. ...
More than 30,000 U.S. businesses filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of 2009, a 64 percent increase from first half 2008, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)....
Although U.S. captive insurers’ net income declined approximately 66 percent in 2008, net underwriting income actually increased over the prior year, according to a recent A.M. Best Co. study of 186 captive companies....
A recent Towers Perrin survey found that 74 percent of claim officers at property-casualty insurers reported their main objective for making technology....
Recession-driven layoffs are hurting not only the unemployed, but those workers who remain to shoulder their responsibilities....
During the past 2 years, state lawmakers have made texting while driving (TWD) one of the hottest public policy issues in the country....
The niche collector car market, filled with enthusiastic, passionate owners of vintage vehicles, muscle cars, sports and exotic motorcars or classic automobiles, often is an untapped market for insurance agents....
In a recent OfficeTeam survey of senior executives at the nation’s 1,000 largest companies, nearly half of the respondents said they have some degree or discomfort being friended by the employees they manage or their bosses
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To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, you can please some people all of the time, and all people some of the time, but you can’t please all people all of the time....