Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
How To Get Your Broker-Dealer To Bend Over Backward For You
By George ConnollyI run a broker-dealer, but I used to be a producer. Finding and acquiring great clients is often a difficult, cumbersome journey. That's why it ...
July 28, 2006
House Approves Health Technology BillAmerica's Health Insurance Plans is asking Congress to take a hard look at a bill that is supposed to encourage doctors, hospitals and other providers ...
July 27, 2006
ACLI Executive Hopes For Progress In Trade TalksU.S. life insurers still have a chance to benefit from World Trade Organization negotiations, despite the recent suspension of the "Doha round.""The talks are not ...
July 27, 2006
Software Firm Releases Report GeneratorEldorado Computing Inc. has developed a tool customers can use to get information from benefits administration databases.Eldorado, Phoenix, which now does business as MphasiS Healthcare ...
July 26, 2006
GAO To Insurance Regulators: Review Personal Data BuysState insurance departments should keep a closer eye on insurers' use of purchased data concerning individual consumers.Officials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office have come ...
July 26, 2006
IBM Releases Grid Computing Package For Life InsurersInternational Business Machines Corp. has introduced a version of a high-powered number-crunching system designed for insurance company actuaries.The IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis ...
July 25, 2006
Nationwide To Sponsor FPAA large financial services company is forming a deeper relationship with the Financial Planning Association.Nationwide Financial Services Inc., Columbus, Ohio, has signed on to be ...
July 25, 2006
Gordon To Run Hancock Distribution ArmManulife Financial Corp. has promoted Peter Gordon to president of the John Hancock Financial Network.The network is the career agency distribution arm of John Hancock ...