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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Get Back To Basics To Fill Void
By Glenn PlotkinEvery industry is subject to trends. Fashion, music, politics, and even life insurance experience trends that capture the popular imagination and then fall out of ...
July 16, 2006
Technology Products Help Automate Compliance ProcessesAs insurers, brokers and agents scramble to bring their operations into compliance with new federal and state guidelines, technology vendors have developed new products designed ...
July 16, 2006
Compliance Management Spurs Systems Automation For InsurersIn 2005, many U.S. insurers were privately held and thus not subject to the requirements mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002. However, private ...
July 14, 2006
Ky. Lawmakers Create Small Group SubsidyThe Kentucky Office of Insurance has published a summary of newly enacted bills that will affect Bluegrass State insurers.Outside of Kentucky, the bill with the ...
July 14, 2006
NAIC Could Create Hybrid ClassificationOfficials at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners will be looking at a wide range of strategies for handling concerns about risk classification of hybrid ...
July 14, 2006
Lawmakers Aim To Continue Life Education ProgramMembers of the U.S. House of Representatives are helping the insurance industry get ready for a major consumer awareness effort.The lawmakers have introduced House Resolution ...
July 14, 2006
Genworth Chooses Health Software PartnerA large financial services company has picked a technology firm to help it help benefits brokers and plan administrators study employers' group health claims.Genworth Financial ...
July 13, 2006
Acordia Acquires Indiana FirmA large broker is scooping up a Midwestern financial services firm.Acordia Inc., Chicago, a unit of Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, has acquired the ...