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Ace nails the question of whether or not to insure a clay tennis court installed on personal property.

Over the next year, you are going to hear me refer to our mission. And IIABA’s mission is very clear: To provide members with a sustainable competitive advantage.

Regardless of how much money your agency earns in a year, there are a number of branding challenges common for all independent insurance agencies. How many of the following seven challenges have you found yourself facing?

When the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010” (Dodd-Frank) was signed into law, it also created the Federal Insurance Office (FIO), a non-regulatory insurance information office tasked with keeping the nation’s policymakers

Call it the liability du jour. Now that identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America, generally perpetrated by criminals hacking into a company’s networks and systems to ferret out customer and employee personally identifiable information, the o

The Millennial generation, born in the general timeframe of 1977 and 1998, is just beginning to enter the workforce—which means you need to start paying attention to them as potential young producers at your agency. Members of this 75 million person group

I’m Your Vehicle, Baby; The Third-Party-Over Party Isn’t Over; Hitchin’ a Ride

Any agency that deals with commercial lines is familiar with the daunting task of processing and explaining additional insured endorsements and certificates. But every now and then, an agency handles a request to name a party as an additional named insure

By: Volume 108, No. 11

Ace explains why a CGL carrier denied coverage for damage to building that was caused by a forklift.