5 Things Sports Taught Me About Business and Life
Sports Taught Me So Much There are probably thousands of books out there about life lessons learned from sports, but somehow when it’s your own life, it’s different. I was…
Sports Taught Me So Much There are probably thousands of books out there about life lessons learned from sports, but somehow when it’s your own life, it’s different. I was…
An analogy between stealing second base and insurance underwriting. This article was featured on SportsEpreneur.com. You can find it here: “Stealing Second Base Is Worth the Risk, Sometimes“. In…
I am sure underwriters ask you for cover letters…and cover letters, and more cover letters. I was once at an underwriting conference with 20 or so carriers, and the individual…
Is there a difference when underwriting permanent insurance vs term insurance? I often get asked if there is a difference between permanent insurance underwriting and term insurance underwriting. The answer…
Insurance underwriters are fair—or at least they aim to be, and they usually succeed. I know it doesn’t always seem that way, but it’s true. In life, things pull in…
If you are like me, nice people are more pleasant to talk to. But maybe, again like me, you sometimes get frustrated by obstacles and feel like saying some not-so-nice…
Many life insurance underwriters have large case-loads and are under multiple time constraints. As a brokerage underwriter of life insurance, I always try to remind myself, and my staff, to take…
Brokers help clients decide what insurance to buy. Underwriters help insurance carriers decide which people to insure at what rates. While the two roles may sound like opposites, a brokerage…
Pat Johnston and I were both attending the same insurance underwriting conference, but we’d never met before—or so we thought. Because our flights got in at about the same time,…