Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Jim Ash inducted into the Greater Fort Wayne Business Hall of Fame
By Staff WriterJim Ash of Ash Brokerage Corporation was saluted on May 6 as a 2010 Greater Fort Wayne Business Hall of Fame Laureate.
May 18, 2010
PPACA: Agent Groups Fear Effects Of Medical Loss Ratio RulesHealth agent groups are urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to take a flexible approach when implementing the minimum medical loss ratio provisions in the new Affordable Care Act.
May 17, 2010
JHA: 2009 Individual DI Sales Fall 11%Revenue from sales of new individual disability insurance fell 11% in 2009, to $339 million.
May 17, 2010
IRS Releases Small Group Tax Credit ExamplesThe Internal Revenue Service has come out with guidelines for small commercial and nonprofit employers that want to take advantage of a new health insurance tax break.
May 17, 2010
WorkScape: EAP Use Growing At Big EmployersEconomic stress seems to be leading to more of an increase in employee assistance program services at large employers than at employers with fewer than 1,000 workers.
May 17, 2010
AnnuitySpecs: Q1 Indexed Annuity Sales Off 4%Sales of indexed annuities fell slightly in the first quarter from the total for the first quarter of 2009, an annuity tracking service says.
May 17, 2010
S. 3217: Industry Sweats Proposed Fiduciary ModelThe Senate last week continued to weigh appropriate standards that agents should use in selling investment products.
May 17, 2010
Towers Watson: CFOs Eye Capital NeedsLife insurer chief financial officers may be shifting toward more use of economic capital principles when managing company capital.