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In the past year, the private flood insurance market has expanded. Consider taking these steps to change your approach to selling flood insurance and take advantage of these changes.

Aflac has offered critical illness coverage for years, but this refreshed offering takes a more holistic approach to providing benefits to policyholders.

The reasons for dumping paper are clear: It wastes money, slows down processes and diverts time away from generating new business. But if you’re confused about how to ring in the changes, start by taking these three easy steps.

Flood insurance is vital to the New Jersey communities independent agent Jeffrey Wyrsch serves. But “ongoing changes to the NFIP, along with the emerging private flood marketplace, create new challenges on a regular basis,” he says.

By: Volume 116, No. 4

More agencies are saying goodbye to printers, faxes and filing cabinets. If your agency hasn’t made the leap to paperless, here’s why you should.

After a flood event, numerous flood-related claims are turned in on insurance agents errors & omissions policies. While some of these claims are justified, a great number of them are due to lack of flood coverage.

There are plenty of ways to generate leads digitally, but they will never hold a candle to the word-of-mouth referral. Most agencies, however, don’t have the volume to grow at the pace they desire.

Vickie Sawyer believes there are two kinds of people in the world. “You can be someone who just sits around and complains about a problem,” she says, “or you can be someone who does something about it.”

Rate hikes in commercial auto, law enforcement professional liability and property are contributing to the many challenges in the public entities insurance space. But is joining an interlocal pool the answer to obtaining lower rates?