Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Achieving ROI By Streamlining Sales And Service Processes
By Michael De WaalToday's insurance market is fiercely competitive, prompting carriers, agents and brokers to look for any possible advantage when selling group insurance products. Because several key ...
November 18, 2006
ACLI To Korea: Let Insurers Cover Co-PaymentsA U.S. trade group is complaining about an Asian country's efforts to rein in its rising health care costs.The Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare ...
November 18, 2006
Helping Women Face Longevity RiskThe well-known fact that wives tend to outlive their husbands could hit financial professionals harder than they realize.Speakers talked about the "longevity mismatch" between spouses ...
November 17, 2006
UnumProvident Unit Reaches Out To BrokersColonial Supplemental Insurance says it is offering more Web support services for producers who are new to the voluntary benefits market.Colonial, Columbia, S.C., a unit ...
November 16, 2006
Credit Card Reward Program To Pay Medical BillsA unit of Bank of America Corp. is setting up a credit card program for customers of Aetna Inc.The new Aetna Health Living card will ...
November 14, 2006
South Dakota Department To Expand Online ServicesMount Rushmore State insurance regulators are reaching out to producers, agencies and insurers through the Web.The South Dakota Division of Insurance has agreed to hire ...
November 14, 2006
ACORD To Update FormsAn insurance standards group is working with International Business Machines Corp. to revise a major library of electronic documents.ACORD, Pearl River, N.Y., says it will ...
November 14, 2006
Aetna Uses Voice Consent TechnologyA health insurer is using the telephone to try to persuade more disability claimants to accept health coordination services.Aetna Inc., Hartford, says it has introduced ...