Question for FL Agents

[mariemerganser]

Can anyone shed some light on this? I currently have a small P&C agency with one 220 agent and no back office staff. The 220 agent does all the back office support as it is still manageable. I have a 20-44 agent interested in working for us, problem is he would have to work from his home as he lives in a different part of the state. What would the logistics to this arrangement be? We would be providing all the marketing as we are solidly generating 15 real time quality homeowners leads from our website per day. Is allowing an agent to work from home even a possibility from a legal perspective?

 

[FLInsa]

The only problem I see is that generally speaking personal lines clients tend to either want to go to your office or want you go to their house. If this producer is too far away from the prospects he is prospecting, how is he/she going to meet with the clients?

Other than that, legally speaking I don't see an issue.

Good luck.

 

[mariemerganser]

I guess what I am trying to figure out is whether or not a 20-44 agent can work from home if all business is conducted over the phone and through email. The department of insurance reps keep giving me different answers. Our 220 agent has really only physically met with a handful of clients in our office over the past year, 95% of her business is done over the phone, through email and fax. The new 20-44 agent would be working that same type of consumer except he would be working from home.

 

[FL P&C Broker]

To my knowledge the only thing a 20-44 can't do is commercial polices and be an agency principal. I don't see why he couldn't work at home as long as the agency has a physical location.

 

[joshb]

Can anyone shed some light on this? I currently have a small P&C agency with one 220 agent and no back office staff. The 220 agent does all the back office support as it is still manageable. I have a 20-44 agent interested in working for us, problem is he would have to work from his home as he lives in a different part of the state. What would the logistics to this arrangement be? We would be providing all the marketing as we are solidly generating 15 real time quality homeowners leads from our website per day. Is allowing an agent to work from home even a possibility from a legal perspective?

I apologize for getting off topic, but how do you generate 15 leads per day from your site? Is it mostly SEO? We are considering going some different routes in regards to driving our website activity up and I'd like to cut costs by weeding out some things that are known not to work. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post that kind of info here.