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Habitational Hot Mess

The habitational market struggles with a lack of capacity, increasing non-renewals, higher deductibles and restricted underwriting. How can the industry adapt to this hard market? This article covers current habitational risks in the multi-family market and offers tips for agents trying to place coverage.

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Back to Basics – Financial Terms Commercial Insurance Professionals Need to Know

As you handle more complicated commercial accounts, you’ll need to understand some often-used financial terms. Whether you’re furnishing your commercial insured’s financial data for underwriting or renewal or responding to audit assistance, here are the top financial terms you should know.

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Back to Basics – What is the Business Owners Policy?

The business owners policy (BOP) is one of the most widely used commercial insurance policies designed to protect small-to-medium sized business owners. While the Insurance Services Office ISO form is readily available, many insurers develop their own BOPs, tailored to different types of businesses, from main street florists to restaurants to contracting businesses. If you’re…

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Avoiding Agency E&O Claims with Signed Documents – Safe, Safer, Safest

Most agency errors & omissions claims have some commonality. This article presents a few examples you can use to prevent a potential claim against your agency when managing client signatures.

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Can Administering Narcan Create a General Liability Exposure?

Our Ask an Expert service offers Big “I” members insight into today’s risks or other coverage, technology, or agency management issues today’s agents encounter. This article offers insight into an important question we received: If I administer Narcan as a trained or untrained employee in emergency situations as required by the employer, will the employer’s…

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Danger Will Robinson! Maniloff Tackles ChatGPT

We keep hearing how ChatCPT is going to revolutionize the written word, putting millions of copywriters out of business and creating a plagiarism nightmare for the educational system. However, how strong is ChatGPT when answering specific coverage questions? Randy Maniloff has some answers, and here’s a sneak peek – Don’t fire your insurance copywriters any…

Back to Basics – Lead with Workers Compensation Coverage

Read any insurance trade journal, and you’ll see articles about how agents can “lead with workers compensation insurance.” Savvy insurance agents can increase their business by targeting employers with considerable workers compensation exposures. Often after the sale of the work comp policy, agents don’t stay as involved as they do on other lines of coverage.…

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