Private Equity Drives Agency Change By Tony Caldwell Independent agencies haven't fundamentally changed the way they do business in 100 years but now must greatly up their game or sell.
How Risk Management Differs From Insurance By Chris Burand If you call yourself a risk manager when you are really only selling insurance, are you representing yourself truthfully?
3 Tips for Increasing Customer Engagement By Insurance Thought Leadership How to attract and service customers 100% digitally (during and after the pandemic)
For Agents, COVID Means Digital or Bust By Bill Suneson Survival in the era of COVID-19 will be determined by the independent agent’s ability to implement digitization.
Of Independent Agents, Heirloom Tomatoes By Kate Terry Direct vs agency is a silly fight. Neither channel maps cleanly to customer preferences. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
The Most Underused Channel for Leads By Nick Hedges One advantage many captive insurance carriers overlook is tied to what may seem like a disadvantage— consumer preference for online research.
What COVID and 43 Years Taught Me By June Taylor This crisis is proof positive for agencies of the value of professional education and of experience. Nothing else matters.
Agents Must Better Explain Their Value By Chris Burand If you can't make your case, then better marketers will convince consumers they are more ethical than you.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.