I received an e-mail recently from a client complaining about the forms he was being asked to complete by brokers through whom he had placed surplus lines policies.  Those forms asked him to name the admitted insurance companies from whom he had tried to obtain the insurance coverage sought before obtaining the surplus lines policy […]

Last week, I listened to a webinar about the effect of the 2017 tax reform legislation on independent insurance agents.  It was put on by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America and contained a lot of useful information (click here to see the slides from the webinar).   The focus of the webinar […]

Last week’s post was about the presentations of two of the well known speakers at my client’s conference event in Nashville.  They were good, but the one I found to be the most interesting was given by a person I had not heard of before.  Antonio Canas is the founder of “Insurance Nerds“, which is […]