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By: Volume 109, No. 8

Call Chris Boone old-fashioned—or call him realistic. As executive vice president of marketing for Bancorp South Insurance Services in Jackson, Miss., Boone selects the insurance companies this 30-branch agency uses. The agency currently represents 200 ca

The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court means the sweeping health care reform measure, much of which the Big “I” opposed, remains the law of the land. Although Congress may revisit, revise or repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at

Face-to-face interactions have been immensely important to the insurance industry. Though seeing one another in person is irreplaceable, the digital age has transformed how we communicate, learn and buy, altering business as we know it.

When Ace testifies as an expert witness in an insurance fraud case, the court judge pauses the trial to ask him for advice on a separate matter. The judge’s neighbor is a landscape contractor, whose employee was injured when moving a heavy chest at the co

It’s always amazing to me when agents ask me for advice. It is so flattering but if they ever knew that I was just a plain old agent like them, they would be taking their inquiries elsewhere! Then again, as my wife reminds me from time to time, I have bee

Two decades ago, Mark Matrone was on track to be a principal—the teaching kind, not the insurance kind. He may not be teaching fourth grade any longer, but in some respects, he’s back in class.

The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court means the sweeping health care reform measure, much of which the Big “I” opposed, remains the law of the land. Although Congress may revisit, revise or repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at

By: Volume 109, No. 7

Nary a day passes without news of another crisis embroiling corporate board directors and senior officers. Corrupt executives one day, rogue traders the next. In the wake of the news, management frets and sweats as stock prices swoon, shareholders take to