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Seeking Unexplored Routes to Riches, a Rising Oklahoma Agency Network Finds Its New Corporate Identity, While Doubling Its Size Top 100 Agency Profile Rank: No. 15 Agency Name: INSURICA Insurance Management Network Main Office: Oklahoma City, Okla. Additional Locations: 26 …

In the insurance world, forces of nature are rarely celebrated. Events such as hurricanes, fires, tornadoes and floods can confound the most exacting calculations, drain profit and sink insurers. But then there is Adam DeGraide, a 38-year-old, rock ‘n rolling …

SPECIAL REPORT: Salute to Program Managers

Some of today’s most successful program managers have pulled the plug on association endorsements. They’re not anti-association but they have decided that these endorsements are not always worth the trouble or extra costs. John McCaffery, director of marketing for Conshohocken, …

The CHANGING FACE of Surplus Lines Brokers

The surplus lines industry is never boring, never plain and certainly never black and white. Often dubbed as the innovator of new insurance products, the industry could even be considered colorful when it comes to the breadth and scope of …

Staying Afloat in Complex Construction Insurance Waters

With the tidal wave of legal cases involving construction defects bogging down county, state and federal courts, it has become imperative that insurers “cover their behinds” from every imaginable angle — including educating insureds as to what is not covered …

Agents Errors & Omissions

If ever there was a time for insurance agents to get out and go looking for a better errors and omissions policy, this is the season. Agents who do will come across several admitted carriers that are welcoming new business …

Strength in Numbers: How networks and clusters brighten agents’ access to markets

Today’s demands on independent agents are plentiful: competition, risk management, compensation disclosure, quality markets and carrier’s demands for premium quotas, to name a few. Such demands could be one reason some agencies today have increased their use of market access …

From Cuba to Capitol Hill

Not your typical agent: Big “I” President and Miami independent agent Alex Soto in a one-on-one interview Alex Soto, president of the large InSource agency in Miami, and president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, is not …

From Cuba to Capitol Hill

Not your typical agent: Big “I” President and Miami independent agent Alex Soto in a one-on-one interview Alex Soto, president of the large InSource agency in Miami, and president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, is not …

From Cuba to Capitol Hill

Not your typical agent: Big “I” President and Miami independent agent Alex Soto in a one-on-one interview Alex Soto, president of the large InSource agency in Miami, and president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, is not …

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