Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
January 20, 2005
Enliven your career by telling storiesIf we want to teach concepts that to clients are foreign and complicated, the most effective way to do so is to use stories, says Scott Farnsworth.
January 19, 2005
Analyst Team Questions Reinsurance DealsA Hamilton, Bermuda, life reinsurer could run into turbulence.[@@]The reinsurer, Scottish Re Group Ltd., recently acquired one large life reinsurance business from a unit ...
January 19, 2005
Horse LatitudesI was going to begin this piece by remarking that the long term care insurance business was in the doldrums last year. But then to ...
January 11, 2005
Supreme Court Lets HMO Provider Suit ContinueA major class-action suit against 6 large managed care companies has moved a step closer to trial.[@@]The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review ...
December 01, 2004
Homeland SecurityAn elderly professional couple recently applied for a credit card, in this case from a major oil company, and, to their great surprise, the request...
November 23, 2004
Achieving Success In The Small Business Disability MarketAchieving Success In The Small Business Disability MarketByA growing business segment with underserved insurance needs, the small business sector, represents one of the most promising ...
November 10, 2004
A Whole New MeaningWould Your Business Owner Clients Be Interested In A Tax-Deductible Buy-Sell?ByMost business owners know the value of having a buy-sell agreement (BSA), and many of ...
November 10, 2004
A Whole New MeaningWould Your Business Owner ClientsBe Interested In A Tax-Deductible Buy-Sell?ByMost business owners know the value of having a buy-sell agreement (BSA), and many of those ...
November 10, 2004
The Spitzer EffectIf you listen closely, you should be able to hear the very beginning of a collective intake of breath as the industry wondersand even more ...
November 10, 2004
The Spitzer EffectIf you listen closely, you should be able to hear the very beginning of a collective intake of breath as the industry wondersand even more ...