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Enforcing time management doesn’t have to mean micromanagement.

Summertime is wonderful. I love the heat and all the bright colors. I love to wear shorts and a golf shirt. I love to sit on the deck in the evenings, enjoying a nice Kentucky breeze while watching the birds. I love to play golf and win a few bucks from m

The debate over how best to regulate the business of insurance just got a lot more interesting, with good news for organizations, like the Big “I,” that support reform of the state system and oppose an optional federal charter. Before Congress recessed

Every independent agency needs disaster planning. Nearby construction can take out your electricity or sever your Internet connections, putting your staff out of commission for several days. A computer virus can bring your systems down, resulting in costl

Once a year, I roll out to a self-storage garage I rent to clean up the joint. Dust, like insurance ignorance, is an enemy of mine, and I don’t like it overtaking my antique garden gnome collection I keep in the storage unit.

In some cases, Florida homeowners associations are just now making loss assessments for damages incurred in 2005…

By: Volume 103, No. 7

Are insurers ready for a possible Avian Flu pandemic?

The question of what defines a “pollutant” might never be decisively answered. From a Clorox bleach spill causing a customer to slip and fall in a grocery store, to an overturned milk truck asphyxiating fish in a trout ranch pond, the CGL pollution exclus

There is a lot of talk today about a leadership crisis in America. No agency is immune to this crisis, and some are even more susceptible to it than others. Real leaders today are few and far between. We have great technicians and great managers, but few