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FRAUD BUSTERS THE TECH (AND HUMAN) APPROACH TO WORKERS COMP CLAIMS HANDLING The best way to combat fraud takes both technology and human intervention By Lori Widmer It comes as no surprise to anyone operating a business that fraud is a big cost driver in workers comp. While it is not a large percentage of the claims filed (estimates from Radius Insurance put it somewhere between 1% and 2% of
NICHE TO BE UNIQUE Axis Insurance Services and its sister company PL Risk offer alternatives for underserved clients and hard-to-place risks By Lori Widmer Where there are coverage issues in the market, Mike Smith sees opportunity. Twenty-four years ago, Smith, founder and CEO of Axis Insurance Services, LLC (AIS), a Franklin Lakes, New Jersey-based professional liability insurance retail broker with national reach, decided there was a better way to sell
Responding to Change As a small MGA, Rockwood Programs has remained competitive by continuing to reinvent its business By Lori Widmer Glenn Clark, CPCU, is the restless type of executive. He believes business has to reinvent itself every day. It is a guiding principle that Clark, president and CEO of Rockwood Pro-grams, lives by and has demonstrated over a decades-long insurance career. For the past 26 years, Clark has headed
TECHNOLOGY BUILT FOR CHANGE M3 and Holmes Murphy partner with others to form BrokerTech Ventures By Dennis H. Pillsbury As technology has become more and more empowering for agencies, the industry has experienced a broad range of impediments to successful integration of tech-based solutions, given each agency’s way of doing business. Perhaps among the biggest impediments has been determining which of the plethora of solutions offers the greatest opportunity
