Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Florida's New Web-Based Health Marketplace Soon to Go Live
By Elizabeth D. FestaWill this work as a stand-in under PPACA as a health insurance exchange, since Florida has rejected the health care reform law's request to set up such an exchange?
October 11, 2011
PPACA Toolkit: Exec Expects Exchanges to Absorb ProducersHealth insurance exchanges may expand and take over agent-broker relations no matter what happens in Washington.
October 11, 2011
Fix Your FocusIn this economy, failure to take a new approach to LTCI sales could lead to extinction.
October 11, 2011
Federal Regulators Re-Propose SIFI CriteriaAs the Financial Stability Oversight Council re-proposes the criteria it will use to determine whether an insurer is systemically important enough to merit additional federal regulation, an uneasy industry prepares for the worst.
October 11, 2011
Secondary Life Policy Market Gets Shot in the Arm from Federal JudgeInsurance interest runs the table in new decision in Pennsylvania on the heels of setbacks for the secondary life insurance market. When does inception begin, one might wonder.
October 11, 2011
Strangers Score Win in Life-Insurance Case (WSJ)Following several courtroom losses, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled against insurers and in favor of investors who bought several stranger-originated life insurance policies (STOLI).
October 11, 2011
Financial Planning Association Celebrates 10th Annual Financial Planning WeekFPA chapters host events nationwide; thousands of Americans receive financial planning advice.