The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts has announced the successful completion of its conversion from a stock insurance company owned by 30 shareholder banks to a mutual insurance company owned by policyholders.
3 in 4 human resources professionals surveyed say their benefits broker makes open enrollment easier for them, but 37% say their employees do not understand their benefits.
Direct premiums and considerations - down 1.2% from 2016 - will decline as regulatory uncertainty stymies sales of certain types of individual annuities, according to just-released report from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Contrary to most traditional worksite benefits marketing, which centers on the employer, efforts to sell optional benefits must instead focus on the individuals making the buy/no-buy decision - the employees.
Safeco recently surveyed 600 independent agents around the country to learn how they agents roles and priorities are changing, what they think will be important in the near future and how they are preparing for tomorrow.
After analyzing nearly 3,000 property & casualty insurers and more than 700 life & health insurers, The Ward Group this week unveiled its 2017 list of the Ward's 50 list of top-performing companies.
The first half of 2017 resulted in 622 new agency partners for Smart Choice, the nation's fastest growing independent agency network, the High Point, N.C.-based company announced in July.
As fitness monitors and other telematic devices grow in consumer use and acceptance, they are bringing with them major changes in the ways P&C insurance is bought and sold.