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Relationship Advice for the Hard Market

Agents need carriers and carriers need agents. It's a symbiotic relationship that puts insurance into the hands of the businesses that need it. However, the hard market is putting a strain on relationships across the insurance distribution system

Posted: Jul 01, 2024

3 Ways the Hard Market Impacts Due Diligence When Buying an Agency

Agents need carriers and carriers need agents. It's a symbiotic relationship that puts insurance into the hands of the businesses that need it. However, the hard market is putting a strain on relationships across the insurance distribution system

Posted: Jul 01, 2024

4 Tips to Help Multifamily Property Owners Mitigate Hurricane Risks

With hurricane season underway, now is the time for agents to work with community owners in hurricane-prone areas to assess their exposures and provide recommendations to mitigate risks, reduce losses and accelerate recovery.

Posted: Jun 30, 2024

What Is Commercial Output Coverage?

Don't let gaps in insurance jeopardize your client’s operations. Find out more about this inland marine coverage. 

Posted: Jun 30, 2024

FloodFlash Launches New Business Interruption Coverage

Flood BI can cover many aspects of business interruption, including non-damage business interruption and denial of access.

Posted: Jun 30, 2024

Why Every Business Would Benefit From a Media Liability Policy

Whether physical advertisements, written content, broadcasts, videos, podcasts, photographs or social media posts, almost every company creates, produces or generates content for themselves.

Posted: Jun 30, 2024

Who Insures Partially Paid-For Materials Stored on Merchant’s Property?

Should the merchant purchase business personal property of others or business personal property coverage?

Posted: Jun 27, 2024

Big ‘I’ Releases 2024 Market Share Report

Independent agency market share holds steady in hard market and continues growth in personal lines.

Posted: Jun 26, 2024

To Err Is Human: Using AI and Avoiding Unintentional Misinformation

Unintentional misinformation can seep into the underwriting process and cause signifcant coverage consequences—here's how artificial intelligence (AI) helps reduce this rising risk.

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Owning It: Meet Young Agent Kasia Anderson

"I’m excited to keep growing, learning and developing knowledge," says young agent Kasia Anderson. "As a female producer in a male-dominated industry, I’m also excited to help pave the way for other female insurance agents who want to grow and explor...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Owning It: Meet Young Agent Weston DeFrisco

"It's nice to have old-school relationship-building and true cold-call outreach in the agency," says independent agent Weston DeFrisco. "But with Generation Z coming in, they have all of these creative ideas on how to use social networking and artifi...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Your Client’s Fun Car From the ‘90s?

Yeah, that’s a classic. Protect it that way with Hagerty. 

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

Help Your Small Commercial Clients Up Their Claim Game

Good advice for positive workers compensation claim outcomes.

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

How AI is Changing the Need for Media Liability Coverage

For independent agents working within the media liability niche market, the proliferation of generative AI has created a fluid and complex environment.

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

How AI is Changing the Need for Media Liability Coverage

For independent agents working within the media liability niche market, the proliferation of generative AI has created a fluid and complex environment.

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

Falvey Insurance Group Expands Offering with Advanced Commercial Output Insurance

The policy is designed to cater to the diverse insurance needs of businesses in the manufacturing, institutional, industrial and commercial sectors, focusing on those with medium-to-large scale operations.

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

Falvey Insurance Group Expands Offering with Advanced Commercial Output Insurance

The policy is designed to cater to the diverse insurance needs of businesses in the manufacturing, institutional, industrial and commercial sectors, focusing on those with medium-to-large scale operations.

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

4 Ways Agents Can Help Clients Save for Retirement

Three years of historically high inflation has led to the target retirement savings amount rising more than 53% since 2020.

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

4 Ways Agents Can Help Clients Save for Retirement

Three years of historically high inflation has led to the target retirement savings amount rising more than 53% since 2020.

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

Big ‘I’ Primer Explains Basics of New Overtime Rule

It is important for every member agency, as well as state associations, to evaluate current employees to determine if they are eligible for overtime pay.

Posted: Jun 19, 2024

Most Americans Do Not Fully Understand Their Insurance Coverage

The national survey of insurance consumers revealed that 86% of consumers have key misconceptions about their coverages, according to Trusted Choice.

Posted: Jun 19, 2024