Expansion of Workers’ Comp for COVID-19 Created Narrow Benefit in 6 States December 21, 2020 By Jim Sams While at least 17 states have passed laws or issued orders that expanded access to workers’ compensation benefits for employees...
How Kindness & Giving Prevailed in a Year Fraught with Challenges December 21, 2020 By Bill Ross This year has been unusually challenging, to say the least. We’ve been thrust into a virtual life of Zoom work...
How One MGA Is Helping Nonprofits Manage a Tough COVID-19 Year December 21, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield When he started building Convelo Insurance Group, founder and CEO Josh Lamberg likely never imagined that the managing general agency...
If You’re Not Growing, You’re Shrinking December 21, 2020 By Chris Burand This familiar euphemism has so much truth embedded in it. Like most robust age-old truisms, humans – and in particular,...
IICF Raises More Than $880K, Honors Gallagher at Annual Northeast Benefit Event December 21, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) raised more than $880,000 at its 14th annual Northeast Benefit Event, held virtually this...
New Capital Entering Market Unlikely to Quickly Soften Rates: Vantage Risk CEO December 21, 2020 By L.S. Howard Greg Hendrick, CEO and co-founder of the new reinsurance and insurance company Vantage Risk, isn’t too concerned about the new...
NIIC Fundraising for City of Hope Persisted Through Pandemic December 21, 2020 By Don Jergler Among the things that have become difficult in a year that has been marred by COVID-19, one key problem would...
Prospect Qualification and Appointment Setting to Land More Meetings December 21, 2020 By Amanda Puppo The objective of prospecting is to find quality opportunities to narrow the sales funnel, and then consistently target that focused...
Record Return of Merger Activity Leads to Massive Growth in M&A Insurance Market December 21, 2020 By Carolyn Cohn A record rebound in merger activity this year and a rise in litigation has brought with it an upsurge in...
Sales Management & Producer Goals During COVID-19 December 21, 2020 By Catherine Oak Every insurance agency client we have today is seeing producers struggling with new production because of COVID-19 restrictions. They are...