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What’s the Difference Between an Occurrence vs Claims Made Form?
Coverage Article, Helpful Tips: For Employees
Understanding Occurrence vs. Claims-Made Insurance Policies A professional signing an insurance policy document. Insurance professionals often face decisions that affect policy coverage and risk management. Understanding the difference between claims-made vs occurrence forms is a critical part of these decisions. This article explains the distinctions between these two forms, offering clarity on occurrence based vs […]
How to Complete the Acord 126 for Insurance
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees, Helpful Tips: For Training
What is the ACORD 126 Form? As you embark on your insurance career, it’s important to get comfortable with the applications found in your Agency Management System (AMS). Below, you’ll learn more about the ACORD application you’ll use regularly to manage client data, including the essential ACORD 126 form. ACORD forms are widely accepted documents […]
ACORD 163 Form: Your Guide to Commercial Auto Insurance
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees, Helpful Tips: For Training
What is an ACORD 163 Form? As you begin a career in insurance, it’s vital to become familiar with the applications used in your Agency Management System (AMS). Below, you’ll find more details about the tools you’ll use every day to manage applicant information, including the driver schedule app for commercial auto insurance. The ACORD […]
How to Complete the ACORD 129 Form
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees, Helpful Tips: For Training
What is an ACORD 129? As you begin a career in insurance, it’s crucial to familiarize yourself with the applications used in the Agency Management System (AMS). This article will delve into the details of the ACORD forms you’ll be using daily to manage client information, with a special emphasis on the ACORD 129 form […]
How to Complete the Acord 27 – Certificate of Insurance
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees, Helpful Tips: For Training
What is an ACORD 27 Form? When you start working in insurance, it’s vital to get familiar with the forms and applications used in your Agency Management System (AMS). You’ll use these documents daily to manage client information and provide proof of insurance. Read on to learn more about the forms like an ACORD 27 […]
How to Deal With Workplace Dilemmas
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees
The day to day operations of an agency can be full of complications of varying degrees. Often it is interpersonal relationships or difficult workplace situations. Both can cause internal and external conflict. It can seem at times that there is no right answer, and even finding the right next step can seem like a losing […]
My New Hire Won’t Stop Talking About His Old Agency, And It’s Killing Morale
Agency Owner Articles, Helpful Tips: For Leadership, Helpful Tips: For Onboarding
Justin and Jordan offer helpful tips to insurance agency owners on managing relationships and agency culture in this episode of the Independent Agent. Check out the details below! Part 1: A new hire wants to keep talking about the ways they did things at their old agency. Intermission: Justin tries a Grapefruit Goodman Part 2: […]
What Should Agencies Do When a System Conversion Does Not Go as Planned?
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees
In this episode Justin & Jordan discuss the steps agencies can take when working through obstacles encountered during an agency management system conversion. They also share thoughts on how a new employee can create the resources they need that will set them up for success in their role. Beverage: Haley’s Sangria Part 1: How can […]
A Producer Tries to Find the Balance Between New Business Activity and Quote to Bind Ratio
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees
The Independent Agent podcast gets romantic! Learn about office romances and how to manage pressure from management as a producer in an insurance agency from your favorite brothers. Part 1: An office romance at off-site team building activity Intermission: Justin tries Veuve Clicquot Champagne Part 2: A producer is getting pressure from the agency owner […]
How Do Agencies Continue to Find Prospects When Traditional Methods Won’t Work?
Agency Staff Articles, Helpful Tips: For Employees
In this episode, Justin and Jordan give advice on new ways producers can reach their ideal candidate when the conventional ways of meeting them are no longer an option. They also share some thoughts on how agencies can regain control of problematic agency bill balances. Beverage – Mike’s Harder Green Apple Part 1: What are […]