Articles by Joseph Mangan

Web Enables Agents to Cut Processing Time for Small Business Accounts

When the prospect of selling insurance over the Internet first reared its head, one of the initial impressions it left was that it posed a threat to independent insurance agents and brokers. Futurists proclaimed a new world where consumers would …

Web Enables Agents to Cut Processing Time for Small Business Accounts

When the prospect of selling insurance over the Internet first reared its head, one of the initial impressions it left was that it posed a threat to independent insurance agents and brokers. Futurists proclaimed a new world where consumers would …

Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum

Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the short term. Members of separate panels composed of financial …

Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum

Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the short term. Members of separate panels composed of financial …

E&S Lines Basking in the Warm Glow of a

Early in 2000, insurance prices started doing something they had not done in almost 15 years. They began to increase, and they kept growing at a modest pace into the third quarter of 2001, when the events of September 11 …

E&S Lines Basking in the Warm Glow of a Hard Market

Early in 2000, insurance prices started doing something they had not done in almost 15 years. They began to increase, and they kept growing at a modest pace into the third quarter of 2001, when the events of September 11 …

To Sell or Not to Sell: Bank-Owned Insurance Agencies My Be Wave of the Future

As far back as anyone now in the insurance business can remember, agents were fighting against allowing banks to sell insurance. That changed in 1996 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that national banks selling insurance in small towns were …

To Sell or Not to Sell,Bank-Owned Insurance Agencies May Be Wave of the Future

As far back as anyone now in the insurance business can remember, agents were fighting against allowing banks to sell insurance. That changed in 1996 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that national banks selling insurance in small towns were …

XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI

Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same information over and over …