Webcasts
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Loss Control with a Badge
Profitable insurers deliver more than investment income – they reduce loss. In this Video, James Schweitzer of the NICB, Keith Jentoft of Videofied along with Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald, President of the National Sheriff’s Association, talk about how technology has resurrected Alarm Response – delivering over 50% arrest rates. Law enforcement loss control is [...]
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Insuring Today’s Self Storage Risk
The self-storage market represents an excellent opportunity for independent insurance agents. But it pays to understand the differences between self-storage and other retail businesses. The webcast Insuring Today’s Self-Storage Risk, presented by MiniCo Insurance Agency, will provide information to help you understand the unique exposures of self-storage risks so you can seek out coverages designed [...]
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Viral marketing to a new generation of policyholders
Building on 15 years of market research and experience, Photoscene.net, the nation’s largest accident media collection and delivery company, has developed a patented “Branding and Retention Cycle” which brings customer, agent and carrier together at the scene of every accident.
Freddie Clemons, Director of Business Development, and the Photoscene.net team will explain how implementing this cycle [...]
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Protecting your portfolio against foreclosure- and vacancy-related claims
The dramatic decline the U.S. mortgage industry is facing is without precedent. Statistics from TransUnion show that mortgage loans that fall 60 days or more past due, which often lead to foreclosure, have risen for the past six quarters nationally – reaching 4.58 percent at the end of 2008. Up almost 16 percent from the [...]
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How Esurance Increased Online Inquiries and Reduced Abandonment with No Upfront Investment
Esurance saw a market opportunity in helping people buy competitively priced auto insurance over the Web. The real key was making it truly simple – and comfortable – for customers to buy this complicated product online. Esurance wanted to provide 24/7 customer care with a clearly measurable business value, without investing in serious infrastructure changes. [...]
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Evaluating True Value vs Hype in B2B Media
In this economy more than ever, evaluating media before you buy it is imperative to your business success. It’s intriguing when a rep tells you: “I’ll put your banner on our home page for a year!” Or they might say “I’ll email your ad to 300,000 people for $500 bucks”. How about this one: “You [...]
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Welcome to TAPCO Underwriters, Inc.
Founded in 1983, TAPCO Underwriters, Inc. is an Excess and Surplus Lines MGA dedicated to providing fast, accurate and unparalleled service made possible by our cutting-edge technology and our exceptional staff of friendly, highly-trained customer service representatives.
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Call, Quote, Bind in a five-minute phone call. Demo of Tapco Underwriting System.
Join Tap Johnson and LuAnn Isley, ASLI for a live demonstration of the Tapco underwriting system, which quotes and binds in a five-minute phone call and helps you survive and prosper in today’s challenging market.
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What Your Clients Need to Know about Tomorrow’s Seniors to Compete in the Long-Term Care Industry
Your clients who operate nursing homes and continuing care retirement communities need to plan for dramatic changes in the long-term care marketplace. More home care, fewer caregivers, skyrocketing elderly populations, short nursing home stays, more funding for community based care are just a few of the challenges. Operators who don’t adapt will lose out. You [...]
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Norwood on Workers’ Comp
John, principal of Norwood & Associates, has been an lobbyist for insurance and financial services sectors across several decades. Norwood offered a focused looking at the all-important workers’ compensation issue, and he gave his thoughts on health insurance exchanges. In fact, Norwood forecast that 2012 will rank as an important one when it comes to [...]
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Lobbyist Norwood Analyzes Consumer Watchdog Legislation
John Norwood is one of California’s best known legislative advocates for the insurance and financial services sectors. Norwood spoke to the Insurance Journal about legislation and regulation, including a proposal by a consumer advocacy group that would establish prior approval for healthcare insurance and would make major changes to auto insurance and homeowners insurance in [...]
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At-Home Insurance Careers for Disabled Veterans
For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to guide disabled veterans into careers in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal experiences with disabled family members. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson, the two share their dream of an organization [...]
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Entrepreneurial Technologists
This year the Entrepreneurial Insurance Alliance (EIA), sponsored by MarketScout, named Vertafore and Risk Metrics, as winners of it 2011 Entrepreneurial Award in technology. Vertafore’s WorkSmart and Risk Metrics’ Insurance 360 technology products received recognition from the EIA as being some of the industry’s most innovative concepts in technology. Each year, the EIA receives hundreds [...]
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How Insurance Distribution Is Changing
Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge —and opportunity— of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove, president, MarketScout Wholesale, Dallas, Tex. In this interview from the recent Western Insurance Agents Association’s Insurance Industry Roundtable in California, Hargrove outlines the value proposition of agents and brokers [...]
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Interesting Times in Medical Liability
The medical liability market continues to perform well even as the nation struggles to implement health care reform. Robert Allen, senior vice presidents at Torus Insurance, says many health care institutions are implementing new strategies to be successful in today’s health care reform world. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega-Wells from the annual [...]
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Pat Ryan Asks, ‘Are You Happy?’
Patrick Ryan is an innovator who sees opportunity. And it was opportunity that drove him to launch Ryan Specialty Group in early 2010. Success lies in hiring “good people,” Ryan says. In this interview from the annual National Association of Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) annual convention in San Diego, Ryan says his newest venture gave [...]
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Vertafore: Intelligence in Technology
Insurance technology leader Vertafore serves 15,000 agencies, 1,000 carriers and about 750 managing general agencies. Steven Finch, vice president of Market Solutions, says the recent purchase of Vertafore by private equity firm TPG Capital lets Vertafore target even larger acquisitions to grow. In this interview, Finch reviews the concept of intelligent workflow and the future [...]
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Bad Prison Guard
A prison guard is mentored by a guard who likes to tease the prisoners.
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Inside IMCA Interview with Nanci Evarts
Inside IMCA Interview with Nanci Evarts at the 2005 Annual Meeting Communcation Roundup
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Integrating the Social Web in a Large Agency
On Point with Peter van Aartrijk and Rick Morgan is an audio conversation with insurance industry leaders who champion change and challenge all of us to think.
So, how does a large independent agency with multiple offices approach new marketing and communications opportunities on the social Web? They apply it first inside their own firm.
Peter [...]
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