3 Key Challenges Facing Agents in 2012

One year of data does not make a trend, advises Michael Klausner, professor of Business and Law at Stanford Law School. But directors and officers liability underwriters can still learn from the numbers Klausner has assembled from 2011 and previous years about securities lawsuits. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson at this year’s [...]

Michael Klausner, professor of Business and Law at Stanford Law School, has collected data on securities actions, including how many actually are dismissed and how many are settled Also, if there is a settlement, who pays it? In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson at this year’s Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s (PLUS) D&O conference, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Agency consultant Al Diamond of the Agency Consulting Group says a good consultant helps an owner realize his or her own dreams, not the dreams of the consultant. What consultants can be expected to do and how they get paid.

Inside IMCA Interview with Bill Dorsey at the 2005 Annual Meeting Communcation Roundup