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
The warmth of summer has come to the nation’s capital, and with it comes an increasingly heated debate in Congress. Now boiling on the front burner is a crucial issue for all independent insurance agents and brokers: insurance regulation.
I went to a continuing education class the other day and finished up my Kentucky requirement a month early. I enjoyed the subject matter, but the best part of the class was seeing a large group of friendly competitors.
I volunteer at the National Institutes of Health as a guinea pig in clinical trials. They pump experimental drugs into me, and I tell them if my toes turn purple…