Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
GAMA Speaker: So Many, So Mad!
By Warren S. Hersch"My advice to you is this: Don't waste this crisis."
March 24, 2009
Income Product Aims At TeachersAssurant Employee Benefits includes features designed to appeal to educators in a new employee-paid disability insurance product.
March 24, 2009
MetLife Adds Pension SupportA large financial services company is trying to increase registered representatives' ability to sell retirement plans and pension plans to small and midsize employers.
March 24, 2009
Michael ProchnoMichael Prochno has been named director of National Accounts Sales for Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company. He has been in the industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining Fort Dearborn, Prochno held senior positions at Prudential and Unum.
March 24, 2009
Furloughs Worsen SSDI WoesCash-strapped states are aggravating Social Security Disability Insurance benefits decision delays by putting SSDI staffers on unpaid leave - even though the federal government pays the staffers' salaries.
March 24, 2009
GAO: Small Group Concentration WorseOn average, the dominant carriers in the U.S. small group health insurance market had even greater market share in 2008 than they did in 2005.
March 24, 2009
Milliman: Crisis Erases Pension GainsThe ongoing financial crisis drove the 100 largest corporate pension plans to experience a record $300 billion loss of funded status in 2008.
March 24, 2009
New York Proposes Life Settlement BillThe New York State Insurance Department has proposed a life settlement bill.