Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Editor's Blog: Hail Mary Pass
By Staff WriterSteve Piontek says AHIP has been doing its best to play football with a monkey wrench.
October 19, 2009
Ceridian: COBRA Subsidy Use Was LowHelping laid-off employees pay to continue group health benefits led to an increase in continuation rates, but not as much as policymakers had hoped.
October 19, 2009
Patricelli: Baucus Health Bill Bad For FSAsBenefit plan administrators say trying to raise tax revenue by imposing caps on flexible spending account contributions and health benefits deductibility could shut down the FSA program within 10 years.
October 19, 2009
DTCC Launches Attachments FeatureA financial services infrastructure company has introduced a service that could improve automation of the annuity sales process.
October 19, 2009
California Enacts Settlement LawCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill aimed at regulating life settlements and imposing a state ban on stranger-originated life insurance policies.
October 19, 2009
IRS Issues Estate Tax Return NoticeThe Internal Revenue Service says that, in some unusual cases, it will limit its own ability to look at estate tax and generation-skipping transfer tax forms.
October 19, 2009
Making The Case For DI To The Business OwnerAt some point in their careers, successful producers take their practices to the next level by seeking clients who have a high net worth and hence, a larger problem to solve.
October 19, 2009
Dental And Vision Are Being Bundled MoreThe Great Recession may be increasing pressure on insurers and producers to sell vision plans together with dental plans.