Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Start a networking group
By Jeffrey A. Blutstein, Clu, ChfcI meet once a month for breakfast with a group of people representing a wide variety of businesses and industries. The sole purpose is to generate leads and business for each other.
May 23, 2011
HHS Awards More Exchange Construction GrantsThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has allocated a total of about $35 million in health insurance exchange establishment grants to three states - Indiana, Washington State and Rhode Island.
May 23, 2011
Lawyer Analyzes Teren Ruling for ILMAFormal definitions of insurable interest seem to matter more than intent when courts are considering stranger-originated life insurance cases, a lawyer says.
May 23, 2011
CannibalismWith the average age in the financial services industry hovering in the high 50s, there is a critical need for new and younger representatives to reach our growing population.
May 23, 2011
NAIC Panel OKs Exchange Producer PaperThe Exchanges Subgroup at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has approved a draft white paper that compares the roles navigators and producers might play in a new system of health insurance exchanges.
May 23, 2011
CIGNA Wins Big in Supreme CourtA unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 16 has significantly narrowed the grounds an employee can use to sue for additional pension benefits based on errors in a plan's summary plan description (SPD).
May 23, 2011
Hartford Agrees to Sell ThriftHartford Financial Services Group Inc. has found a buyer for Federal Trust Bank, a Florida thrift it acquired in early 2009, back when it was applying for permission to participate in the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program.
May 23, 2011
More Obama, Less TrumpThe U.S. economy seems to be on the mend and, barring unforeseen developments, Barack Obama appears to be the favorite to win the 2012 presidential election.