Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Optimizing the power of your Web site
By Jay NagdemanThe launch of a professional, well-designed site is only the first step in harnessing the power of the Internet to help attract clients and build your business.
January 27, 2010
Eagil Scoops Up Philly AgencyEagil Financial Group L.L.C. has acquired Goebel Insurance Agency Inc.
January 27, 2010
Employers: Health Reform Would Increase Access - And ExpensesEmployers say adopting the kinds of health system changes now under consideration in Congress would increase access to coverage but drive up their own benefits costs.
January 27, 2010
Hales: Freeze Chills Brokerage M&A MarketThe Great Recession, a soft insurance market and uncertainty about health reform contributed to a 40% drop in insurance brokerage mergers and acquisitions between 2008 and 2009, according to Hales & Company.
January 27, 2010
Insurer Eyes Cash Balance PlansA large insurer is making its group retirement products available as funding vehicles for cash balance plans.
January 27, 2010
N.Y. Department Posts Model Life Settlement DisclosuresThe New York State Insurance Department has posted language it would like life settlement providers to use to inform policy owners about the legal rights owners have when selling policies.
January 27, 2010
ABIA: Bank Agencies Struggled In 2009Average total returns on the value of bank-owned insurance agencies were 10.2% lower during the first half of 2009 than they were in the first half of 2008.
January 27, 2010
BHC Insurance Income Rises 12%Bank holding company insurance brokerage fee income reached over $3 billion in the third quarter of 2009, up 11.7% from about $2.7 billion in the third quarter of 2008, Michael White Associates reports.