QuotesAuction.com has found that more and more insurance brokerages are purchasing live transfer leads in bulk. North Hollywood, CA – March 29, 2008 -- Insurance brokerages earn money by taking a large number of leads, and turning them into sales. With ... [full story]

LONDON, March 28, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The banking crisis is far from over and both the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England seem to be running out of options - says the breakingviews team. Richard Beales in ... [full story]

INDIANAPOLIS – A proposal ostensibly designed to ensure that insurers are adequately addressing issues of climate change serves no purpose other than to appeal to special interest groups, according to the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC). NAMIC’s comments ... [full story]

Less than a year after the launch of an industry-wide campaign to improve the efficiency of communications between independent agents and carriers, several leading national and regional carriers are reporting that their real-time rating and policy inquiry transactions have doubled ... [full story]

NEW YORK - American International Group Inc has filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court against former Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and six other former directors and officers, accusing them of breaching their fiduciary duty. In the complaint, filed ... [full story]

MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Online car insurance customers looking for a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T, don’t have to look any further than progressive.com according to a recent study by The Customer Respect Group (CRG). The group ranked Progressive #1 for positive Web-based customer ... [full story]

If there is one thing that separates the self-employed from those employed by others, it is their preoccupation with health insurance. I was reminded of this on Feb. 14, when I wrote a post on the Shifting Careers blog asking ... [full story]