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Coming up for air
Set at the beginning of the Second World War, 'Coming Up for Air' describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This edition - one of George Orwell's early pre-war works - explores the historical and political context of the novel.
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Insurance and Collectibles: What Agents Need to Know
A recent major milestone--New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter recorded his 3,000th hit with a home run, and the record-breaking ball was estimated to be valued at upward of $300,000--drove home just how valuable sports collectibles can be.
Trade Publication Article
Insurance fiction underwritten
Whereas fictional cops, robbers, Wall Street operatives, politicians and even journalists get lead roles all out of proportion to their actual numbers in the general population, the ranks of fictional insurance professionals are pretty slim.
Journal Article
The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Rex Troute column
If you say the word \"museum\" to some folks it automatically sets their cheeks on yawn mode. [...] Burlington should not create a museum, but instead a railroad theme park to celebrate everything from the locomotive to the caboose, passenger travel and freight hauling, the Transcontinental Railroad to new speed trains.
Newsletter
Tech 'afflicts' those who plan poorly
To be sure, technology has been viewed as the \"afflicter of the comfortable\" in the insurance industry, and with good reason. Of course, most software vendors will not come right out and say that their new products will allow insurance companies to fire some of their employees because they will not need them when they install the new, automated systems. The usual catchphrase is something like: \"It will free up your [pick one: agents, underwriters, adjusters, marketing people] to do other, more important tasks.\" Oh really? Tell that to the 3,000 people who recently lost their jobs at Chicago-based Aon. A company representative said the cuts were necessary to make Aon more competitive with other brokers and financial services companies. But - and here is the key point - the company said that the reductions were made possible because of the utilization of new technology. If the world's 2nd-largest broker is reducing staff due to technology advances, can others be far behind?
Trade Publication Article