Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Broker Acquires Health Navigators
By Staff WriterOvation Benefits Group L.L.C. has scooped up a health risk management firm.
September 13, 2010
CA Insurers Will Pay For ActuariesRecently, Steve Poizner hired independent actuaries to determine if health plans' requested rate increases were too high. But now, under a new bill, insurance companies will have to and pay for actuaries on their own.
September 13, 2010
NAIFA: Currey Accentuates the PositiveThe National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors has helped agents stay in the health coverage ballgame, Thomas Currey said here at the group's annual meeting.
September 13, 2010
NAIFA to Raise DuesThe National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors will be increasing dues Jan. 1, 2011, and again Jan. 1, 2012.
September 13, 2010
Health Issues Heat Up for AgentsCongress is expected to take up, as early as this week, a proposed revision to the healthcare reform law designed to limit a stringent tax-reporting mandate scheduled to go into effect in 2012 that is particularly irksome to small businesses.
September 13, 2010
Three more social media truths you can ignoreSocial media blogger Rich Brooks says a lot of social media advice "is framed as 'universal truths' that every business must follow. But even the most good-intended advice is often off the mark when it comes to your business."
September 13, 2010
Basel III: The MysteryBasel III seems to be so important and all-encompassing that it could affect anything, and everything, but insurance policy watchers are still pondering the implications.
September 13, 2010
Aon Makes Management DecisionsAon Corp. is giving more details about how it intends to handle the executives it expects to get when it closes on Hewitt Associates Inc.