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Five Work Comp Errors Every Agent Makes

Workers’ compensation, from a coverage standpoint, is the simplest coverage to understand and even explain. However, statutes and common laws serve to complicate the initial simplicity of workers’ compensation and…

Number of Claims: 3 or 636?

In the world of insurance coverage, the word “claim” is one of the most frequently spoken. It is used by an injured party to describe its pursuit of relief against…

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Homeowners’ Insurance and Firearms

Once again, we find ourselves in the deeply political and emotional debate about guns, the second amendment, gun control, and safety. This discussion requires us to clear up some misconceptions…

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3 Sales Measurements Every Agent Must Understand

If it’s not measured, it can’t be managed. Every agent and agency must be able to measure specific sales ratios to effectively plan for the future. Two commonly measured ratios…

2 Overtly Useless BAP Endorsements

Lawyers make life interesting for the insurance industry. Often we outsmart them by creating endorsements to satisfy a request that, in effect, really do nothing other than make the lawyers…

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Service Centers – An Update

Service centers make a lot of sense from a financial standpoint except it will take as many as five years for your clients to stop calling YOU and start calling…

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