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The Case of the Guarded Garage

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.

Hurricanes and Loss Assessments

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

July 2006

By: Volume 103, No. 7

Pssst, Wanna Hear a Dirty Story?

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

Full-Contact Leadership

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

OFC Battle Heats Up

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.

Battling Our Competitive Threats

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.

The Case of the Double Vision

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…

June 2006

By: Volume 103, No. 6

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