Agent Assist: Wholesale Insurance

For years, the North Carolina wind pool — officially known as the North Carolina Joint Underwriting Association and North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCJUA/NCIUA) — offered protection limits up to $1.5 million. In those days, agents active in the...

Shelter From the Storm

A lawyer at a major U.S. property-casualty insurer once said, “I won’t buy an umbrella policy [for myself]. If I had one and were sued, the plaintiff’s lawyer would simply go after more money.”

Preserve and Protect

Hollywood’s art thief is a suave bon vivant, a dashing type who swoops in to liberate a valuable painting from the wall of a wealthy, boorish businessman. Lurking behind the movie romance is a much grittier reality, however. A glimpse of the case files of the Los...