Ethics in Today’s Insurance Industry
Today’s financial headlines and bailouts raise questions about the state of ethics in the financial services industry and in insurance. Marvin Kelly, president of the CPCU Society, whose members must honor a code of ethics, thinks the industry does a lot of things right but this doesn’t make the news.
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