Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Editor's Blog: Regulator M&A
By Staff WriterAs New York moves ahead with efforts to consolidate its insurance department into a larger financial authority, will it increase efficiency...or throw out the baby with the bath water?
January 12, 2011
FINRA Private Placement Proposal Exempts Variable ProductsThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority plans to keep an exemption for variable life and annuity products in a private placements rule it is updating.
January 12, 2011
LIFE Seeks Real StoriesThe Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education is looking for more stories that show how life, disability, long term care and health insurance can make a difference in people's lives.
January 12, 2011
Peer-to-peerEarly January seems like an ideal time to remind our readers that Life Insurance Selling's content is built around a peer-to-peer approach -- and that such an approach sometimes requires your help.
January 12, 2011
Benefits of Texas' Newly Banned Discretionary ClauseLast month, Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin approved legislation that may boost business for agents.
January 12, 2011
How to get on talk radioRadio is still a medium that can create local celebrity status in a short amount of time. Financial talk shows are and will continue to be in high demand.
January 12, 2011
Summit Business Media Unveils PropertyCasualty360.comSummit Business Media L.L.C. today announced the official launch of PropertyCasualty360.com, a comprehensive website for property-casualty insurance professionals.
January 12, 2011
Unintended consequencesIt will be interesting to see if battery-powered autos are successful. I tend to think, once tax credits go away, that Americans won't like the restrictions of being limited to X miles daily.