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Market Direction Hard To Gauge, But Are Agencies Ready?Brooklyn, N.Y. A consensus is building throughout the industry that the hard market of the past couple ...

Third-Qtr Brokers Results Trend Upward, But Some Not Happy With ResultsThird-quarter earnings showed double-digit gains for insurance brokers, but some top executives said they were ...

Dumping Paper Enhances PerformanceThere are a number of benefits businesses can gain when turning to technology for help, and according to one executive with a ...

Calif. Wildfires Cost $2B, Maybe MoreWith the Southern California wildfires virtually contained, the hard work of figuring out how much it will all cost begins, ...

Couch Braunsdorf Merges With PerksCard A New Jersey insurance agency has merged with an affinity discount card company to create what it sees as an ...

Small Businesses Underestimate Catastrophic Interruption Losses: SurveySafeco said a survey of small-business owners found that more than half of them have no business interruption insurance ...

Branding Independent Agents: The Tools Are Out There A former airline executive says branding is critical to an independent agents success.Agent associations, recognizing this, have ...