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Shop the Market Before Your Clients Do
What if the key to growing your insurance agency is already sitting in your book of business? It can cost seven to nine times more to attract a new customer than to retain an existing one — yet most independent …
POSTED APRIL 20, 2026 9:00 AM |
State of the Market – A focus on Public Entity
The public entity market remains stable, with few notable challenges. The property market continues to show signs of softening; competition remains strong and capacity is readily available in most segments. Conditions generally favor insureds; however, a significant catastrophe loss, especially …
POSTED APRIL 17, 2026 9:00 AM |
Confronting the escalating threat of severe convective storms in 2026
Severe convective storms, which include hail, tornadoes, and straight-line winds, have evolved from secondary concerns to primary drivers of annual insured property losses. Today, a single extreme hailstorm can generate catastrophic insured losses on par with a major Category 4 …
POSTED APRIL 17, 2026 9:00 AM |
The Account Manager Bottleneck: Why More Tools Aren’t Fixing Brokerage Work
An account manager starts their day in their inbox. A new submission comes in—attachments, loss runs, scattered details across multiple emails. They download files, rename documents, and try to piece together what’s missing. A follow-up goes out. Another email comes …
POSTED APRIL 14, 2026 9:00 AM |
Medicare Open Enrollment 2026: Market Risks and Distribution Channel Strategies for Insurance Agencies and Carriers
At first glance, having the most profitable Medicare season comes down to matching your distribution channels to the anticipated size of the market opportunity in a particular state and planning your sales coverage accordingly. Yet, optimizing your Medicare distribution channel …
POSTED APRIL 14, 2026 9:00 AM |
The Alliance’s Control of Risk Now Available in Self-Paced Format
Have you ever wondered why some organizations seem more susceptible to cyber-attacks or employee injuries than others? Why do some seem more resilient than others? Dive into these questions and more through the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance’s (The Alliance’s) …
POSTED APRIL 14, 2026 9:00 AM |
From Inbox to Quote — Automating the P&C Submission Journey
In Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance, the submission-to-quote cycle is where business is won, or lost. Yet for many carriers, MGAs, and wholesalers, this process is slowed down by inbox clutter and manual re-entry of data. Every submission email requires …
POSTED APRIL 13, 2026 9:00 AM |
What Is a Comparative Rater?
If your morning starts with 10 open browser tabs and the soul-crushing task of typing the same VIN and address over and over, you aren’t alone. It’s a massive bottleneck that eats up the time you should be spending talking …
POSTED APRIL 09, 2026 9:00 AM |
5 Ways to Reduce Operating Costs and Get More Control Over Your Insurance Loss Ratio
It’s no longer just a hypothesis that more and larger natural disasters, along with general inflation and social inflation, are driving up insurers’ claims costs. While underwriters continue to dial in products for today’s emerging risks, claims costs continue to …
POSTED APRIL 08, 2026 9:00 AM |
Risk & Insurance Education Alliance Opens Nominations for Outstanding CSR of the Year 2026
The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance is proud to announce that nominations and applications are now open for the 2026 Outstanding Customer Service Representative of the Year competition—an annual competition focusing on the insurance industry’s most dedicated, impactful, and outstanding …
POSTED APRIL 07, 2026 9:00 AM |
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