Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Personnel Changes: EBSA, Conseco, Others
By Staff WriterPhyllis Borzi is the new head of the U.S. Labor Department agency that oversees benefit plans.
July 24, 2009
FINRA Sets FinesThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority says it has fined 5 bank broker-dealers a total of $1.65 million in connection with allegations of inadequate oversight of sales of variable annuities and other products.
July 23, 2009
AHIP Checks FactsAmerica's Health Insurance Plans is trying to use small doses of information to shape the current health system change debate.
July 23, 2009
Tech Bits: Oracle, ConnectureOracle Corp. has released Oracle Insurance Policy Administration 9.0, a new version of a product designed for life and annuity issuers.
July 23, 2009
TriZetto: Tech Is The AnswerBetter automation can bring health carriers and producers together, rather than driving them apart.
July 23, 2009
Polls? We Have PollsEmployers and their employees seem to have different views about the health system debates now under way in Washington.
July 23, 2009
Alliances: Bankers Life, My HSA Rewards, Horizon, AWACBankers Life and Casualty Company is now marketing Medicare Advantage plans from Humana Inc. to its own customers.
July 23, 2009
What Will Money Cost?Questions about how to incorporate interest rate uncertainty in insurance reserve calculations came up during a recent meeting of a National Association of Insurance Commissioners subgroup.