What agents and brokers need to know Until recently, the blockchain and bitcoin were virtually indistinguishable in the press. To most people, the innovative technology and the most popular cryptocurrency application powered by it were one and the same. Now that’s changing. Bitcoin remains the most popular blockchain application to date, but it’s not the only cryptocurrency, and new blockchains are being developed all the time. In fact, nearly 1,000
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ESOP brings teammates together at this Mississippi agency Now that’s a big family—116 people and counting! “Our leadership puts others before themselves,” says Ross & Yerger Vice President and Personal Lines Group Leader Jordan Bryan, API. “They’re willing to do anything to help out any of our people, and that’s contagious. It contributes to the family-like atmosphere that pervades our agency. “And it is our agency,” she emphasizes. “I come
Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS) report offers practical steps to take before and after a cyber event occurs At around 11:20 in the morning, on the last Tuesday of June, a friend and former coworker of mine posted on Facebook: “Massive cyber attack … Freaking.” As a remote worker for a U.S.-based subsidiary of a global industrial firm—a company operating in 43 countries on five continents—she quickly felt the
Agents must understand the programs available to their customers through the companies they represent Over the past decade or so, several so-called disruptive forces have affected the personal auto insurance market. Among them: telematics and usage-based insurance products, which ushered in new ways for insurers to collect, develop, and use large volumes of refined, driver-focused data to assess and price risk more accurately. On the heels of this wave came
Industry professionals share their experiences with using online chat for business—and not just with customers and prospects I remember during my latter years of high school—yes, I’ll date myself here—when my family first got dial-up Internet in our house, and I discovered the concept of online chat, I thought it was amazing to be able to talk in real time with someone on the other side of the country on
