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Finding the Bright Side

Editorial Advisory Board Member Jeff Grady stands up for the industry and offers some encouraging words for 2011.

By Jeff Grady | Updated on September 30, 2010

The famous Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy coined the phrase, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Long after these inspirational words were first spoken, they continue to motivate countless numbers of ordinary people to do extraordinary things (not the least of which was a last-stand resurgence of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the classic movie, “Animal House!”). This encouraging phrase must also apply to Florida’s independent agents as they confront the realization of today’s triple threat: Full-blown, politically made insurance “reforms,” a prolonged soft market, and the worse economy since the Great Depression.

While these conditions are daunting to many agency owners, there are significant changes on the horizon that will soon make for a different day. Most notable is a wholesale change coming in Florida’s political landscape that simply has to be better than the populist crusade led against the insurance industry by Gov. Charlie Crist.

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