Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Opportunities Abound In The Underserved Small Business Market
By Richard FinkelsteinThirty-plus years ago, life insurance carriers trained their large career agent forces to call upon small business owners to deliver life insurance-based solutions designed for their firms.
June 04, 2010
PPACA: New HHS Health Insurance Oversight Arm Adds ManagersThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has picked a former state insurance commissioner, an academic and a risk pool expert to help run a new Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.
June 04, 2010
Companion To Help CMS Promote Electronic RecordsA unit of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina will be helping the government reward health care providers for adopting electronic health record systems.
June 04, 2010
HHS Seeks Comments On Plan Quality AssessmentsThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting two Medicare Advantage performance measurement efforts through a routine paperwork reduction review process.
June 04, 2010
NAIC Panel Prepares To Test PBR ManualThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners is getting ready to alpha test a new, possibly more flexible approach to setting and assessing life insurance company reserves.
June 04, 2010
Democrats Ask HHS To Limit Medicare Advantage ChangesCongressional Democrats who voted for big cuts in Medicare Advantage spending now are asking regulators to keep the cuts from affecting MA rates and benefits.
June 04, 2010
IASB: Measure Life Settlements At Fair ValueThe International Accounting Standards Board is proposing that entities should use different methods for measuring life insurance policy assets and life settlement contract assets.
June 04, 2010
Marketing strategy: Define success with features and benefitsConsumers rarely make buying decisions based on a product or service's features; yet that's what most businesses promote over and over again.