Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Keeping Your Mind and Emotions Focused in Crisis and for Growth: Practice Edge, March 2010
By Maya IvanovaFormer baseball player and manager Yogi Berra one quipped that baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
March 09, 2010
EBRI: Great Recession May Make Workers Work LongerMany workers now say they want to work past the normal retirement age - but some of those workers may have a hard time holding on to jobs as long as they think they will.
March 09, 2010
Ignagni: Stop Calling Names; Start Solving ProblemsThe head of America's Health Insurance Plans today asked Congress and the Obama administration to "turn away from vilification" and work with insurers to draft better health reform legislation.
March 09, 2010
Alliances: AIMS, Partners Advantage, Phillips Benefits, LifeCareAmerican Insurance Marketing Services, Inc. is forming an alliance that should help it expand the scope of the services it offers to associations.
March 09, 2010
Minnesota Fines Carrier Over Cross-State Annuity SalesThe Minnesota Department of Commerce has imposed a $275,000 fine in connection with allegations that an Iowa insurer sold unapproved annuity contracts to its residents.
March 09, 2010
LIMRA: 20% Of Life Policies Sold Through Direct MarketingMore than 20% of life insurance policies were sold through direct channels in 2008, according to LIMRA and the Life Insurance Direct Marketing Association.
March 09, 2010
Guaranty Companies Oppose Senate Financial Reform BillGuaranty fund trade groups are urging members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Committee to leave insurers out of any bill that would create a separate resolution authority for large, troubled financial institutions.