Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
ACLI Prepares To Meet Them In St. Louis
By Jim ConnollyAmerican Council of Life Insurers staffers are getting ready to talk about viatical settlements, travel insurance, hybrid securities and market conduct at the fall meeting ...
August 29, 2006
Sunflower State Taps UniCare To Run Health ProgramsKansas has picked a local carrier, Children's Mercy Family Health Partners, and a unit of WellPoint Inc. to run its Medicaid and children's health insurance ...
August 29, 2006
Ohio Asks Marketing Firm For InformationBuckeye State officials are giving a company in their jurisdiction an invitation to discuss its promotional efforts.The Ohio Department of Insurance has issued a notice ...
August 28, 2006
Feds Accept Pru Settlement OfferA broker-dealer partly controlled by Prudential Financial Inc. has agreed to pay $600 million to resolve a market-timing investigation.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says ...
August 28, 2006
Show Me State Gives Agency More ResponsibilityThe old Missouri Department of Insurance has become the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration.Missouri officials renamed the department after giving it ...
August 28, 2006
Activa Goes With Benefit InformaticsA Midwestern benefit plan administrator has selected a technology partner.Activa Benefit Services Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., has agreed to use systems from Benefit Informatics Inc., ...
August 28, 2006
Allstate Adds Critical Illness PoliciesA giant insurer says it will be giving voluntary benefits brokers more ways to help employers protect workers against life-threatening illnesses.Allstate Workplace Division, Jacksonville, Fla., ...
August 25, 2006
Marketing Alliance Reports Income DropThe Marketing Alliance Inc. reports net income of $82,600 on $3.9 million in revenue for the fiscal first quarter of 2007, vs. net income of ...