Being a captive insurance agent is not easy. Some estimates suggest that 75% of agents turn over within a five-year period. So it's no surprise that more insurance agents than ever are leaving captive ...

NEW BRIGHTON, Minn., June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TrustedChoice.com, the nation's leading digital prospecting platform for independent insurance agents, today announced it has officially joined ...

Ryan Hanley, chief growth officer at Linqura, at right, addresses a panel at InsurTech NY April 2, 2025. Panelists are Garrett Droege of IMA, Scott Knowles of Deep Vector, Josh Curry of BMS Group and ...

The Advicer We invested $700K with an insurance company and were told we could access the money in 5 years. Turns out, it’s 10 years with early withdrawal penalties of more than $24K. Now what?

The main distinction between an insurance agent and an insurance broker is that an agent works for an insurance company— like Nationwide or Farmers — and a broker works for you, the consumer ...

Sometimes, too, insurance premiums go up by quite a lot. West Virginia-headquartered independent Michael Sparks in January was staring down the barrel of a doubling of premiums for his renewal ...

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Most business decisions come with a trade-off. Leave a large insurance carrier to start an independent agency, and you will gain autonomy but sacrifice infrastructure, support, and access to products.

As an independent insurance agent, I might work with 15 different carriers, and if I look at them in individual silos, insurance company A may offer the cheapest homeowners insurance and insurance ...

NY First is a group of insurance companies and trade associations that support the independent insurance agency system. They work to foster a healthy, vibrant insurance market and workforce in New ...