Part One: 2023 NU/PIA Independent Insurance Agent Survey | Respondents are overcoming adversity.

Cybersecurity is now a threat to every business. Insurance agencies and brokerages are no exception.

PIA National VP Ted Besesparis looks at the history of the NFIP and federal flood reform, and offers a pathway forward.

Independent agents have specific stakes in several high-profile issues being debated in Congress, such as renewal and reform of the National Flood Insurance Program.

Over the past several years, agents have achieved a series of legislative wins. What will we see with new political leadership in Washington, D.C.?

With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, the insurance industry is cautiously optimistic of the passage of a Dodd-Frank rollback bill and Wall Street reform.

Flood, state regulation and fiduciary rules among issues Congress may consider.

Threats to state regulation loom from both the U.S. and EU governments.