Innovation, culture and people help young firm introduce new ways to better serve agents, brokers and their clients By Dave Willis, CPIA After an insurance career spanning some 44 years, you’d think Jino Masone would have looked forward to retirement. If that’s what you thought, you’d be wrong. Following nearly a quarter-century at Zurich, Masone stepped out of a very brief retirement to become chief operating officer of Breckenridge Insurance
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Good citizenship helps this Illinois agency’s growth and retention Flipping hamburgers at an outdoor barbecue may not seem like a strong marketing tool for establishing an agency as the trusted advisor for people and businesses in the Frankfort, Illinois area, but it was. It was yet another way that the people at Gnade Insurance showed their support for the community they serve. In this instance, the barbecue was the brainchild
From the Fifties to the future The phenomenon known as the “alternative market” began nearly six decades ago. Originally, the market included just a handful of Fortune 500 corporations looking for a viable risk-financing approach. They wanted to better align their organizations’ losses with what they were paying for commercial insurance. At about the same time, insurance innovator Fred Reiss, a former property insurance engineer who became an insurance broker
Wisconsin agent wins PIA National Young Insurance Professional of the Year award When your grandfather starts an independent agency in 1953 and your mother takes it over for 40 years before retiring, it appears that fate will bring you to the insurance industry as well. We might tack on the fact that your father has been the executive vice president of the Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) of Wisconsin since 1994
Survey results reveal opportunities for industry to advance Earlier this year, more than 4,300 agents, brokers and managing general agents shared insight on technologies available to help them grow their business and serve their customers. They also revealed which they’re using—and which they’re not. The online Insurance Digital Transformation Survey was conducted by the Insurance Digital Revolution (IDR), an industry initiative formed last year to accelerate adoption of technologies that
