Agency Management

Health regulators will deal this month with a request by agents that their commissions not be treated as part of a company's premium revenue for purposes of establishing medical loss ratios.

Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) President Terry Fleming said his group is helping guide risk managers on how to prohibit brokers from accepting contingent fees on their accounts and assure full disclosure about compensation from carriers.

The Senate is expected to take up a measure to limit a stringent tax-reporting mandate scheduled to go into effect in 2012 as part of health care reform.

Editorial Advisory Board Member Mike Colodny offers compelling commentary on Florida's troubled property market. How did it get so bad, and how can we dig ourselves out?

The federal health-care reform bill is having an enormous affect on two seemingly disparate groups: Baby Boomers and insurance agents. Premiums are going up, and commissions are going down.

J. Hyatt Brown is the chairman - and for over 50 years, the driving force behind - Brown & Brown Insurance.