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Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required on Brokers

Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct proper due diligence on a purported surplus lines …

Asbestos Litigation: Manufacturing’s Silent Killer

If you still had doubts about the need for lawmakers to pass serious legal reform, you should have been convinced by the hurried filing of 85 questionable class action lawsuits in just two neighboring Illinois counties in the single week …

Ethics in the Age of Spitzer

You’ve read the papers and articles about the Attorney General Spitzer investigation. How do you feel about the specific allegations and facts that have been revealed? If you’ve read them carefully, you probably feel sick about them. This is not …

Ethics in the Age of Spitzer

You’ve read the papers and articles about New York Attorney General Spitzer’s investigation. How do you feel about the specific allegations and facts that have been revealed? If you’ve read them carefully, you probably feel sick about them. This is …

Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required

Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct proper due diligence on a purported surplus lines …

Ethics in the Age of Spitzer

You’ve read the papers and articles about the Attorney General Spitzer investigation. How do you feel about the specific allegations and facts that have been revealed? If you’ve read them carefully, you probably feel sick about them. This is not …

Ethics in the Age of Spitzer

You’ve read the papers and articles about New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s investigation. How do you feel about the specific allegations and facts that have been revealed? If you’ve read them carefully, you probably feel sick about them. This …

Success Keys: Educate Yourself, Focus to the Max

While teaching basic insurance, ethics, and errors and omissions for the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida I have noted several trends I would like to share with you. The good is very good, in fact, it is excellent. Never before …

Agent? Or Broker? Consumer Choice Dictates Disclosure

What Eliot Spitzer has done within the insurance industry should be entered on the positive side of the ledger. While much of the follow-up has driven up expenses and slowed down the inner workings of insurance carriers, the rooting out …

Ethics in the Age of Spitzer

You’ve read the papers about the Attorney General Spitzer investigation. How do you feel about the specific allegations and facts that have been revealed? If you’ve read them carefully, you probably feel sick about them. This is not our finest …

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