Rev. Jesse Jackson issued a challenge to the agents present at the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s annual meeting last week: Take off the blinders and see that a multicultural clientele is economically advantageous. Put the moral and ethical contemplation …
After seven years as a Nationwide independent contractor, David Howell of New Braunfels decided it was time to move on. Like any divorce, the decision to part ways was neither easy nor swift. The seeds of thought were planted two …
Someone up above has been listening. How else can one explain the hardening market that has been the subject of thousands of prayers. Both agents and E&S vendors, then, should be doubly excited about the commercial auto market, which is …
Some insurance stories should be easy to write. Say, when an insurance company buys another insurance company. Representatives from both companies are always more than willing to tell reporters how the match was heaven-made, how no one will “lose” their …
Plans are underway for Unistar Insurance Co.’s charter to be sold to Agricultural Workers Mutual Auto Insurance Co., a 52-year-old mutual based in Fort Worth for $50,000. Negotiation of the sale began in the weeks before Unistar ran into serious …
Last issue I spent considerable time articulating how online continuing education can go wrong. How it could dumb-ify CE. One man from Tennessee, fearful of what might be coming down the pipe, created a spoof site called www.learnnothing.com relating his …
A sense of humor is not lost on Bill Wilson, an insurance agent hailing from Tennessee. Wilson spent three days of his vacation time crafting www.LearnNothing.com, a spoof site the name of which pays tribute to one of his favorite …
Don’t believe the ads you might see or hear about consumers buying their homeowners insurance online. Because if they have to try as hard as I did to procure just one quote, they’re probably going bare. Online insurers have created …
The fall of California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush was painful to watch. There was no quick, quiet exit. It was a drawn-out, three-month ordeal documented and driven day by day by the Los Angeles Times and the California Legislature. You …
In prehistoric times—more specifically the time of the dinosaur—the Texas Coast was somewhere near Glen Rose. At least that’s one of the nuggets of information I’ve hung on to since a trip to Dinosaur Valley State Park last year. It …
