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Analytics Advice for Agencies How, Why and Where Agencies Should Use Data Analytics

The data insurance agencies and brokerages possess is ever-growing. Thus, agency managers need to be able to answer how, why, and where they can successfully analyze and use all of this data. The answer to the “why” is simple: To …

Build vs. Buy: Organic Growth in a Rising Rate Environment

Now that interest rates are rising again, it’s time to re-examine whether buying an insurance agency is the smart choice for growth or whether building an agency makes more sense. While lots of factors come into play when agents want …

New Markets

Jewelers Block Market Detail: Berkley Asset Protection (www.berkleyassetpro.com) has more than 20 years of industry experience and offers coverage for physical loss or damage to precious and semi-precious stones, jewels, jewelry, precious metals and other related property usual to the …

Declarations

Aftermarket Parts “By passing extremely narrow interest legislation to ban the use of aftermarket parts, the General Assembly has unfortunately voted to raise auto repair costs for Rhode Island drivers who, as a result, could end up paying the highest …

Vacation Benefits Short-Lived for Many Stressed Employees

Taking time off helps workers recover from stress and experience positive effects that improve their well-being and job performance, but for many working adults, the benefits of time away vanish nearly immediately. Nearly a quarter of working adults (24 percent) …

Analytics as an Answer to Strategic HR Management

It is hard to imagine modern human resources management without analytics. A growing emphasis on productivity and employee engagement has inspired organizations to collect and analyze workforce data. As young professionals increasingly equip themselves with data science and other technology …

Business Moves

Marsh, Wortham Insurance Global insurance broker Marsh is acquiring Houston-based Wortham Insurance. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018, were not disclosed. Founded in 1915, Wortham has more than 530 colleagues based …

4 Ways to Highlight Experience in Resumes

1. Ooze Expertise. No one knows the insurance industry like you. Your resume is a timeline of when your experience collided with major industry events. Cite your knowledge of industry trends, the effects of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, new …

Disconnecting Consumers

Is the insurance industry meeting customers’ expectations when it comes to connectivity? One new survey says maybe not. According to a survey by MuleSoft, a provider of technology for application networks, customer loyalty is at risk for organizations unable to …

Declarations

Medical Marijuana “Prosecuted or not, the fact remains that Twin Rivers would be forced to commit a federal crime if it complied with the directive of the Workers’ Compensation Board.” — Maine Supreme Court Associate Justice Jeffrey L. Hjelm stated …

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