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Although many thought Google Compare would massively disrupt the market, its operation ended less than a year after launch. What does this mean for other disruptors and the rest of the industry?

Remember worrying about whether the U.S. Supreme Court would deem the Affordable Care Act’s provisions constitutional? Today, the uncertainty of the Supreme Court’s future composition has similarly significant business implications.

Primarily applicable to the fields of economics, political science and psychology, game theory originally addressed zero-sum games, in which one person’s gains result in another’s loss.

As Ethics Awareness Month comes to a close, three agents share their most jaw-dropping ethical dilemmas.

According to Google Research, 98% of Americans switch between devices throughout the course of one day. That includes everyone from millennials to baby boomers. Is your agency taking advantage?

At the recent Pathways to City Resilience Forum, financial and government leaders addressed how U.S. cities and institutions can build resiliency in three key areas: infrastructure, climate change and cyber.

The career agency force dropped to 145,000 in 2013, compared to some 250,000 career agents at the height of the career agency system. Is your agency taking advantage of this decline?

Connected residences now stream reports about security, temperature, air quality and more, presenting the opportunity for more precise underwriting and efficient communication. Is your agency ready to respond to the Internet of Things?

Connected homes, cars and selves have the potential to tremendously mitigate your clients’ risks—and in some cases, reduce the need for insurance altogether.

The justice system is addressing a case where an employer reduced employees’ hours to 30 a week. Whether or not the intent was to avoid providing health insurance is up for debate.