Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Retiring Texas Commissioner: Protect Life Settlement Investors
By Trevor ThomasTexas lawmakers should consider giving a state agency clear authority to oversee the investment side of the life settlement business, outgoing Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin says.
January 10, 2011
Advisor update: Back to basicsThese last couple of years there's been one distraction to your book of business after another. There's been the financial crisis, SEC 151A, the Finance Reform Bill, Healthcare Reform and so on.
January 10, 2011
No Rest for the WearyAfter the long-running legislative battles over financial services reform, tax reform and Rule 151A in 2010, many in the life insurance world could use a breather.
January 10, 2011
The Case of the Mysterious Shrinking Case Sizesmall businesses are thirsty for credit, and that is giving nonmedical benefits sellers a sore throat. Prices for products such as group life, group disability, group dental and group vision are reasonably stable.
January 10, 2011
Legislating from the BenchConservative commentators are thrilled over a recent decision by a federal court in Virginia that rejected part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional.
January 10, 2011
Experts Foresee Increased Advanced Planning OpportunitiesWealth transfer planning among the high net worth is likely to increase in 2011.
January 10, 2011
Shots FiredThis weekend's assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was the kind of news that was nearly impossible to miss. Before I get any further ...
January 09, 2011
The Case of the Mysterious Shrinking Case Sizesmall businesses are thirsty for credit, and that is giving nonmedical benefits sellers a sore throat. Prices for products such as group life, group disability, group dental and group vision are reasonably stable.