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Finding a Market for Hard to Place Accounts

Everyone occasionally comes across those hard to place accounts. Hopefully, your first shot will be our own Big “I” Markets at www.bigimarkets.com. Other alternatives include www.insurancemarketplace.com and www.mynewmarkets.com. In this…

The Key to Customer Recovery: Stand Behind Your Product, Communicate and Follow Through

What can an insurance agency learn from a furniture company? Simplicity Sofas focuses on quality, innovation and improvement. They jump to supporting their customers and resolving issues. They communicate, keep…

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Creative Problem Solving Can Lead to Amazing Customer Service

The story you’re about to read is a five-star, scale of one to ten – give them an eleven – amazing customer service story. If you’re a customer of Whole…

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Acquiring and Keeping Good Producers

To solve the problem of a declining agency client base, the answer for insurance agency owners is to recruit producers who will both grow the agency in support of their…

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Price Check

At a rapidly accelerating rate via TV advertising, online “ease of use” promotion and proliferating media articles, consumers are being duped into believing that personal lines insurance is a commodity,…

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Food Truck Claim…BAP or CGL?

According to a recent news story, a dozen or more people were injured by exploding propane tanks used for cooking on a food truck parked at the curb of a…

ACV vs. RC Recovery in Liability Claims – Revisited

A burst water pipe in a neighbor’s yard causes water damage to flooring in your insured landlord’s rental home. The rental home DP insurer denies the damage, citing the “surface…

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Why Are Real Estate Managers CGL Insureds?

The ISO CGL policy includes real estate managers as insureds in the Who Is An Insured section. Why?

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Recommending Your Competition

Are there any situations where you would refer a prospect to another agent? One agent who writes almost exclusively commercial lines refers personal lines opportunities to an agency that writes…

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Rewiring the Insurance Industry

This is neither an advertisement nor an endorsement, but rather an informational piece about what one agent-led group is trying to accomplish. Anyone who deals daily with certificate of insurance…

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