Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Forecasters Say It's A Web Web World
By Staff WriterCelent Inc. analysts say online insurance sales will double by 2011.Consumers may continue to place many of their orders offline, but the Web will play ...
July 15, 2007
Feasibility Studies Quell Anxiety About New Senior Market EntriesWhen I headed product development for a major insurer 21 years ago, I proposed that we explore the feasibility of developing a single premium immediate ...
July 13, 2007
Distributor Adds Product LineL.A. Marketing Plans has become the exclusive distributor of the RightHealth medical discount program from Access Plans USA Inc.L.A. Marketing is a unit of eBenefits ...
July 13, 2007
Ocean State Creates Basic Benefits OptionRhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri has signed a bill, 2007-H6054aa, that will permit insurers to develop bare-bones health plans aimed at uninsured employers with 50 ...
July 12, 2007
PBM Quantifies Effects Of Cost On Generic UseBig differences in co-payments for brand-name drugs and generic drugs lead to noticeable changes in prescription plan members' purchases.Researchers at Express Scripts Inc., St. Louis, ...
July 11, 2007
Tech Bits: Laser App, Skywire, MoreLaser App Software L.L.C. has added an e-signature feature to its library of financial services forms.Laser App, Upland, Calif., says users of its forms now ...
July 10, 2007
Sharon Alt Buys Out PartnerA well-known Fort Worth, Texas, health insurance expert is striking out on her own.Sharon Alt, president and co-founder of Alt Benefit Consultants Inc., Fort Worth, ...
July 10, 2007
Florida P-C Broker Picks Health VendorBrayboy & Associates Inc. will be providing employee benefits services for corporate clients of J. Rolfe Davis Insurance Agency Inc.J. Rolfe Davis, Maitland, Fla., is ...