Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
ACLI Backs LIFEC Project
By Staff WriterThe American Council of Life Insurers is welcoming efforts to create a new Life Insurers' Forum for Ethics and Compliance.
September 23, 2010
What to do when clients lieIn the sales process, prospects often tell "white lies" to deflect you.
September 23, 2010
Dodd-Frank Act: Transamerica Develops GuidesTransamerica Life Insurance Company has prepared one guide to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for agents and one for consumers.
September 23, 2010
PPACA: What is a Child?An Affordable Care Act provision will extend access to dependent health coverage to children up to age 26, but the provision does not define the word "child."
September 22, 2010
PPACA: OCIIO Describes Changes Affecting Government PlansSelf-funded, nonfederal governmental health plans will be facing new enrollee protection requirements, Steve Larsen says.
September 22, 2010
PPACA: IRS May Extend Anti-Discrimination RulesThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is asking how it ought to go about applying rules discouraging discrimination by self-insured employer health plans to insured group plans.
September 22, 2010
White House Press Secretary Mocks AHIPWhite House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called America's Health Insurance Plans the "insurance protection lobby" Monday during a press briefing.
September 22, 2010
NAIC Posts STOA StopperAn arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has drafted a model bulletin that would encourage insurers to guard against participating in stranger-originated annuity transactions.