All the headlines from our Insurance Journal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 4 2009 // The original criteria and objective definition for Super Regional P/C Insurers™ were established in the Feb. 12, 2007 issue of Insurance Journal. Prior to the establishment of an industry-wide definition, a number of...
May 4 2009 // Channel Harvest Research and Insurance Journal have announced a major new study in the independent agency system that will probe agents’ attitudes toward carrier relationships and the insurance companies they...
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Apr 2 2009 // Channel Harvest Research and Insurance Journal have announced a major new study in the Independent Agency System, to be fielded in April, that will probe agents’ attitudes toward carrier relationships and the...
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in the current hard economy and soft market requires agents to set priorities. In the Jan. 28, 2009, issue of Insurance Journal, Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and...
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in the current hard economy and soft market requires agents to set priorities. In the Jan. 28, 2009, issue of Insurance Journal, Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and...
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in today’s economy and soft market forces agents to set priorities. Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and distribution at The Hartford, who oversees his...
Feb 8 2009 // In this hard economy coupled with the soft market, most agencies expect sales and revenues to go down. Even the best performers feel the downward trend in premiums.According to Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for...
Feb 8 2009 // The independent insurance agency system is enjoying a resurgence. For years, the number of agencies in the country had been declining but that trend, while not reversed, has been halted. The number in 2008 was 37,500...
Feb 8 2009 // In this hard economy coupled with the soft market, most agencies expect sales and revenues to go down. Even the best performers feel the downward trend in premiums.According to Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for...
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority?Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution at...
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority?Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution at...
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority?Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution at...
Dec 1 2008 // North Carolina’s new insurance chief agrees with insurance industry critics that the state’s backup wind insurance pool, known as the Beach Plan, needs shoring up.“I have described our Beach Plan or...
Nov 4 2008 // If insurance industry professionals were choosing the next president of the United States, Republican John McCain would be the victor. While most polls of the general electorate give Democrat Barack Obama a lead going into...
Nov 3 2008 // SAN DIEGO – (November 3, 2008) – Online video is booming. By 2012 nearly 50 percent of all Internet traffic will be to online videos, according to Cisco Systems.This online video boom can be a benefit to...
Nov 2 2008 // The 2008 Insurance Journal Agency E&O Survey, conducted Oct. 3 through Oct. 16, drew 1,042 respondents from 50 states; there were no respondents from the District of Columbia. The five states with the highest...
Nov 2 2008 // While independent agents have their favorite carriers for certain risks, on occasion they end up choosing a carrier other than their preferred carrier. Most often the reason they do is pricing.Independent agents named...
Oct 24 2008 // As the impact of the global economic crisis takes hold, a quarter of large U.S. employers expect to make layoffs in the next 12 months. However, most companies are focusing on increased employee communication and smaller...