VU Resources

Many agency problems arise over claims. The agent’s duty to report claims to the carrier can be one area that can generate many different scenarios and opinions. Failure to timely…

Increasingly inclement weather, civil disobedience, electrical grid failures – all these problems can create a nightmare for insurance agents. Not only will these events impact your clients, but your agency’s…

COVID-related supply chain issues have dramatically increased the cost of building materials. The result, replacement cost limits on property policies may be too low for the foreseeable future. How should…

ISO’s Commercial Property Conditions (CP 00 90) gives the insured up to two years to file suit against the insurance carrier. Should the agent advise their insured on this limitation?…

COVID and the government actions that resulted were never anticipated, but now it has happened. Such government actions are now a known exposure, what must the agency do to going…

In recent months, this has become a hot topic: Can our agency cancel or non-renew a nightmare client?

Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of…

Six “costs” in addition to the premium combine to develop the insured’s true total cost of risk: 1) Deductibles or Self-Insured Retentions; 2) The cost of uninsured or self-insured losses…

Every insurance practitioner knows what happens when there is an ambiguity in policy language, the insured is supposed to win. But what makes a provision ambiguous? Is an ambiguity created…

Ethics is a rather irrelevant CE topic. Knowing the difference between theoretical and applied ethics does not help the insured avoid a catastrophic financial loss because the agent didn’t understand…