“Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s tough to get back in,” H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff under the Nixon Administration, famously observed. Half a century later, employers are finding the truth in the expression as they struggle to get their employees—many of whom were sent home to telework during the…
“Full coverage.” Does that phrase sound familiar? It should because we’ve heard it said by claimants in errors & omissions claim after errors & omissions claim. Why does the insured have inadequate limits?
Increasingly, courts and legislatures around the country have offered insurance professionals a parachute of sorts to save the day in the event of an errors & omissions claim. Sometimes it’s in the form of a short statute of limitations that begins once the policy is delivered to your insured. Other times, the court announces a…
Every fire loss claim covered by an insurance policy begins and sometimes ends with the agent who sold the policy. However, avoiding an E&O claim related to a fire loss begins and always ends with you understanding the process. Remember, the fire loss doesn’t start with the fire, it starts with the application.
“If I’d only sent them the policy, then I wouldn’t be in this mess.” And if I had a nickel for every time I heard that from an agent when there was a claim and a carrier was denying coverage for an uncovered underlying claim, I’d be a rich man.
It happens to many agents. Aunt Sally and Uncle Bill purchase some retail space and plan to rent it out. They need insurance and, of course, contact you since you are in the business. Granted, you have never placed a commercial policy of any kind before, much less in Florida, but how hard can it…
Writer and philosopher George Santayana is remembered for the phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Given the current state of affairs—coming off 2020 and a solid year of pandemic peaks and re-peaks—those words ought to send chills up your spine.
If you’ve forgotten what’s coming this month, you can be forgiven. COVID-19 has been front and center in our lives for so long that it’s difficult to look beyond it. But now’s the time you need to be thinking about hurricane season. And if you are an “inland agency,” this article applies to you, too,…
Just as you are probably receiving a lot of questions from your customers about how their insurance will respond to the events surrounding the Coronavirus/COVID 19, we are also receiving a lot of questions from agents and brokers asking what they should do regarding those questions. How do you respond when someone asks you whether…
Buying or selling an insurance agency or its book of business is, to say the least, a major decision. There are a host of factors for both the buyer and the seller to consider: the value of the business, a price point, personnel questions, property-related aspects, time commitments, and many other issues to investigate, assess,…
