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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
LIFE Seeks Great Planning Stories
By Staff WriterAn insurance education group is asking financial professionals for stories about how life, health, disability or long term care insurance policies have helped clients overcome ...
January 21, 2007
Appeals Court Rejects Maryland's "Wal-Mart" Insurance MandateA federal appeals court in Baltimore says state laws that give employers a choice between providing health coverage and paying a tax or fee violate ...
January 21, 2007
New BlackBerry Offers Functional GainsWhile mobile computing is still a tough sell in the slow-to-adopt-technology insurance industry, the makers of the popular BlackBerry wireless handheld device are continuing to ...
January 21, 2007
Advisors Save Time, Learn More With Web-Based TrainingIn 2003, my company faced a critical challenge: how to effectively deliver training to a nationwide field force. The solution, we found, lay in supplementing ...
January 19, 2007
Regulatory Commission: 29 Members And CountingMichigan has become the 29th state to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact Commission.Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation permitting Michigan to join the IIPRCC ...
January 19, 2007
NAIC Organizes Agenda For 2007The National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting here could include work on a product regulation group, one regulator says.Officials at the NAIC, Kansas City, Mo., ...
January 18, 2007
AALU Executive Reacts To Senate Deferred Comp ProposalThe Association for Advanced Life Underwriting is lobbying against the non-qualified deferred compensation provisions that were added Wednesday to the Senate Finance Committee's version of ...
January 18, 2007
Cerulli: 401(k) Outflows Will AccelerateThe aging of the baby boomers already is starting to squeeze retirement plan providers.Researchers at Cerulli Associates, Boston, have presented that conclusion in a new ...