If you go to any insurance convention these days, you're almost sure to hear agents, companies or both calling for greater use of the Internet for processing business. Judging from the results of the 2005 American Agent & Broker Readership
IT LOOKS like one of those great old Duke Ellington compositions has become the theme song of regulators working on the Model Compensation Disclosure Amendment to the Producer Licensing Model Act. I'm referring, of course, to "I'm Beginning To See
NEXT MONTH, agents and brokers will head to Washington, D.C., for their annual spring lobbying of legislators as part of conferences conducted by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America and the National Association of Professional
IT WAS AN all-too-familiar announcement. Last month ACE Ltd. said it would kick up its loss reserves for asbestos and other environmental claims by $788 million. According to a Morgan Stanley analyst quoted in the Wall Street Journal, ACE's move was
WELCOME to 2005-and to the continuing fallout from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's investigation of the insurance industry. For agents and brokers, a big question in the year ahead will be to what degree the reaction to the Spitzer
FOR PEOPLE working in a business that seems chronically down-in-the-mouth, analysts sounded almost giddy last month as they reviewed the property-casualty industry's recent performance and speculated about its prospects in 2004. Take, for instance,
