What are the biggest challenges facing producers today? How are they coping with the impact of the lingering recession and the soft commercial insurance market in most areas?

These are just some of the questions this year's winners and finalists confront in the annual "State of the Independent Agent Roundtable," put together by National Underwriter and American Agent & Broker.

The responses will appear in the Nov. 1 edition of NU, as well as the December issue of AA&B, as part of the "Commercial Agency Awards For Excellence" program.

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