Agency-Customer Texting Agreement
In recent years, text messaging has moved quickly into the professional setting, providingindependent agents with a quick and simple way to communicate with clients. The expansion oftext messages to and…
Resources
Privacy Provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act & Their Impact on Independent Agents
In 2016, Big I General Counsel did an in-depth review of the GLB Act and provided significant insights on the data security, carrier contract, and overall information security implications of…
Your Website Should Be ADA-Compliant
What Is Website Accessibility? Today’s Web Accessibility Requirements: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1992 (ADA)W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services The…
Internet of Things: Life and Health
Life & Health Insurance Impacts For both Life and Health sectors, IoT and wearable biosensors offer the potential to provide more information offer better insights, improved efficacy and preferable outcomes…
Internet of Things: Commercial Lines
Commercial Insurance Impacts: The impacts of IoT on commercial insurance can be as varied as the many types of businesses that purchase commercial insurance. All businesses, including insurance carriers…
Internet of Things: Personal Lines
Personal Insurance Impacts: The impacts of IoT on personal insurance are starting to and will continue to affect how independent agents will process insurance, how consumers will purchase as well…
Internet of Things – Deep Dive
The Internet of Things (IoT) is broad in scope and pervasive in its nature. It isn’t one technology, but a combination of technologies that provide information, access and solve problems.…
Digital/Paper-Free in 2023?
Background If you have been around long enough you may recall the call for the industry to be “Paper-Free in ‘83”. It is now 35 (!!) years later, and the…
Agency Resource – Downloadable ‘Agency-Customer eDelivery Agreement’ Template
ACT has worked with the Big ‘I’ national general counsel to create an ‘Electronic Delivery Consent Form’ template agencies can download and use. This was initially developed to cover when…
IIABA/ACT ‘Agency Website Privacy Policy’
Did you know that Gramm-Leach-Bliley NY DFS and NAIC regulations require small businesses (i.e., agencies) to have a Privacy Policy listed on your agency website? The Big ‘I’ and ACT…
