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In North America, women account for over half of the entry-level workforce in financial services, but represent fewer than one in five C-suite positions.

Breaking down processes and evaluating technology systems is vital to an agency’s success.

Carriers often use the terms “umbrella” and “excess” interchangeably on their forms. What is the best way to tell if an umbrella policy is a true umbrella policy, or if it is actually an excess policy?

To gauge the status of agents’ biggest concerns as we look ahead to 2020, IA spoke with several independent agent carrier partners about where these trends stand today—and where they’re headed tomorrow.

To kick off the New Year right, here are five outside-the-box ways to retain insurance clients.

E-commerce is the driving force behind groundbreaking technological trends in the trucking industry, which is likely to become the leading transportation sector when it comes to autonomous vehicles.

As a trucking insurance specialist, independent agent Toni Jones cites challenges from rising premiums to a lack of qualified drivers. “These types of accounts can be notoriously difficult to place,” she says.

An insured runs a business in which he uses a front-end loader. The loader accidentally crashes into his personally owned truck. The truck is insured on a personal auto policy but only has other than collision coverage. Is he covered?

For a business to be competitive and flourish in the future, employees must take on new and different team roles beyond their usual job-related activities.

It’s time for agents to accept that millennials make up the majority of potential insurance customers, and develop a new customer experience tailored for this generation.