Do Age and Gender Matter?
The number of female young agents responding to the Young Agents Survey grew in 2015 – 46.7 percent were female while 53.3 percent were male. In the 2014, only 39.5 percent were female. While the gender gap appears to be …
What Agencies Need to Know About Recruiting the Next Generation
Recruiting the next generation of talent is not a new challenge but a difficult one. At the recent NetVu15 conference in Indianapolis, a workshop titled “Generation XYZ in the Workplace” drew a large crowd, many of whom were agency principals …
Declarations
Big Step Forward “This will be a big step forward in the city’s overall resiliency efforts as we prepare to deal with the future of extreme weather.” —New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s …
Why the Simplex in Cyber Liability Needs to Change
Our industry loves acronyms and buzzwords. Allacronyms.com publishes a list of 1,086 insurance industry acronyms. Iwebhound.com has an acronym list that is even larger. You can tell when insurance people are talking to insurance people, because every other utterance is …
The Positive Power of Negative Thinking
It’s easy to imagine that being positive about everything in your life is the ideal mental state. It’s a wonderful fantasy, but it’s not real. Negative thoughts exist – and in some ways these musings are positively enlightening. One example …
10 Things to Know About Cyber Risks in Public Entities
The per capita cost of a data breach to the public sector is $172 per record, according to the “2014 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States” — Ponemon Institute Public sector companies have the highest estimated probability of having …
Business Moves
Confie Seguros, Your Insurance Spot, Wise Insurance Agency, Bronkie Agency Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance based in Huntington Beach, Calif., has acquired three East Coast insurance brokerages. Confie Seguros acquired the assets of Your Insurance Spot …
Future Competition
Young agents, while generally happy with their career choice, temper their optimism with doses of reality about what lies ahead in terms of competition. Who can blame them? This issue of Insurance Journal features exclusive results from the 2015 Young …
My New Markets
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People – South Central
Stacey Miller Lemons has joined Dallas-based insurance broker MHBT Inc. as a commercial property/casualty account executive. Lemons, who is based in Lubbock, Texas, has more than 25 years of risk management and insurance experience. Previously, she worked at Roach Howard …
