In This Issue

Protect Your Commissions in 2022 BY PHIL CALHOUN I AM OFTEN ASKED how commissions are handled when an active broker retires or worse, is no longer able to stay active. The answer is the same […]

Financial stress has been a factor in the workplace for many years now, affecting employee productivity as well as impacting their health. BY MIKE WILBERT EMPLOYEES ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES and salary levels have experienced workplace […]

BY YJ LEE VIRTUAL is the new normal. With the effects of the pandemic spurring the proliferation of customer centric digital platforms, a wellspring of virtual marketplaces for consumers and businesses makes purchasing the right […]

BY JOEL ZWICKER CAPTIVE AGENTS ARE SLOWLY but surely becoming part of a bygone era. Nationwide announced in 2018 it would transition to a fully independent model, and by July 2020 virtually all their agents […]

What matters for the insurance industry? BY MICHAEL GIUSTI More than perhaps any other vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine has drawn passionate responses from nearly every corner of the political arena. But in all the high-volume […]

A CONTINUATION AND UPDATE BY DOROTHY COCIU Author’s Note: Part 1 of this article was printed in the October 2021 issue of California Broker. This is Part 2 and includes updates from the September 30, […]