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Independent Agencies Win When Retention Comes First As an independent agent, you know the truth: acquiring new clients is often much more expensive than keeping the ones you already have. The old saying, “new business is king,” no longer entirely rings true. Today, retention is the new … POSTED DECEMBER 16, 2025 10:00 AM

Drowning in Busywork? Tech to Help Agencies Reclaim Time and Boost Efficiency With the winter holidays quickly approaching, independent agencies are looking for ways to reclaim precious time—to unwind and recharge. Between client requests, policy servicing, sales demands, carrier logins, and endless administrative tasks, agency teams often feel like they’re running on … POSTED DECEMBER 15, 2025 2:13 PM

Cold Weather Flights: Best Practices from Lessons Learned Most aviation accidents are due to human error. An estimated 69% of general aviation non-commercial fixed-wing aircraft accidents in 2021 were caused by pilot mistakes. The right winter preparation, though, can help you stay safe and avoid disastrous outcomes during … POSTED DECEMBER 15, 2025 10:00 AM

Should Captives Be Allowed to Insure Homeowners Risks? Most states and U.S. territories permit the establishment of captive insurance companies to insure a variety of commercial risks. However, no state or territory allows them to insure personal auto risks, and before mid-2024, no state or territory allowed them … POSTED DECEMBER 08, 2025 6:32 PM

Leveling Up Fleet Safety with Inspection Technology Pre- and post-trip inspections are a daily requirement for carriers. Many fleets still rely on paper Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports, or DVIR, that drivers must fill out by hand, but this approach can lead to illegible entries, misplaced documentation or, … POSTED DECEMBER 08, 2025 10:00 AM

How to Grow an Independent Insurance Agency As consumers shop around for the right combination of coverage, price and service excellence, building a name for your insurance agency is important. But they may want access to multiple insurance products/carriers, so it pays to go independent. With the … POSTED DECEMBER 05, 2025 5:49 PM

Profits Versus Christmas Cheer—A Good-Business Lesson Dan Pope, Senior Vice President of Underwriting at Old Republic Surety, learned a lesson as a young surety rep about the most important numbers at a client’s business. Profits and losses are not the only numbers companies use to determine … POSTED DECEMBER 05, 2025 10:00 AM

Unlocking the Future Workforce in High School: The Impact of Emerging Talent Programs and Local Industry Engagement The future of insurance is sitting in today’s classrooms. We hold this truth to be self-evident: when young people gain insurance knowledge, real exposure to professional pathways, and meaningful engagement with industry professionals, the results are extraordinary. “For well over … POSTED DECEMBER 01, 2025 10:00 AM

The EZLynx Solutions Insurance Agents Love Most Independent insurance agents are always searching for smarter ways to serve their clients and run their businesses more efficiently. At this year’s Applied Net conference, attendees couldn’t stop raving about the EZLynx® tools they rely on every day. Whether it … POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2025 10:00 AM

AI + Human BPO: The New Model for Insurance Process Automation In insurance, automation has long been viewed as an “either/or” scenario-either a task is handled by AI, or it’s assigned to a BPO team. That’s no longer the case. Today’s most successful MGAs, carriers, and wholesalers are embracing a hybrid … POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2025 10:00 AM

Insurance Business

Business continuity isn’t keeping pace with cyber threats, warns Sedgwick CISO Third-party attacks and policy exclusions are rewriting the rules of cyber risk POSTED JANUARY 01, 0001

Nonprofits squeezed out of coverage as insurance carriers pull back Pamela Davis warns the insurance market is failing nonprofit clients at a critical time POSTED JANUARY 01, 0001

Cyber insurance isn’t booming - it’s recalibrating Growth is real, but so are capacity pressures, credibility gaps, and systemic risk POSTED JANUARY 01, 0001

What tech startups get wrong about insurance Many tech firms lose out on enterprise deals because they overlook one crucial cost of entry: compliance POSTED JANUARY 01, 0001

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