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To Advise or Not to Advise?
The insurance distribution industry has been slowly evolving away from coverage knowledge for a long time. Education seems to have taken...

Chris Burand
Jul 27, 20224 min read


A Positive Impact
In the insurance industry, you can have a phenomenal career in which you can make a personal difference to clients, especially as an...

Chris Burand
Jul 25, 20226 min read


Insuring What's Important
Allianz posted an article in January 2022 based on a survey of 2,650 businesses listing cyber, followed by business interruption, and...

Chris Burand
Jul 21, 20224 min read


E&O Tips
One of the latest innovations in the marketplace are forms provided by wholesale brokers. HOWEVER, it seems some of these brokers are...

Chris Burand
Jun 1, 20222 min read


Do you have any idea what you are selling?
Someone wrote to me to tell me I was basically an idiot for previously writing that insurance is designed to protect assets and that...

Chris Burand
Apr 7, 20225 min read


Do you really want the answers?
There's a famous line in the movie A Few Good Men that was delivered by Jack Nicholson where he exclaims to the prosecutor, "You can't...

Chris Burand
Mar 8, 20225 min read


Proof of an Opportunity
A combination article/advertisement (an article posing as news that is really an advertisement) landed in my inbox. The article detailed...

Chris Burand
Jan 20, 20224 min read


Does anyone know what insurance is supposed to do?
An insurance instructor sent an email to me using a rather terse tone and advised me that I did not understand insurance. In his words,...

Chris Burand
Jan 19, 20223 min read


Are Insurance Companies and Brokers Trying to go Extinct?
Recently a federal court ruled that Chubb did not have to pay $138 million relative to Target's 2013 data breach. I am not an attorney so...

Chris Burand
Nov 30, 20213 min read


Great Intentions
Confusion seems to exist between the value of intentions and results in the workplace. Some people seem to think that if they have great...

Chris Burand
Nov 24, 20213 min read


Do you really need to read the policy you are selling?
Obviously, this is an article so it does not include music. If it could include music, playing in the background would be the song,...

Chris Burand
Aug 9, 20214 min read


The Cost of a Law License
Per the book, The Club, by Leo Damrosch, in order to join the law bar in London around 1770, a gentleman had to prove residence at The...

Chris Burand
Aug 5, 20215 min read


The Heart of Selling
I did not buy life insurance for a long time because I never met a life insurance salesman (they were all men) who could effectively...

Chris Burand
Jul 13, 20216 min read


Practice, Practice, Practice
As a producer, do you practice? I was in a situation the other day that I thought I could handle, but something unexpected happened and I...

Chris Burand
Jul 12, 20214 min read


Can insurers put their heads deeper in the sand?
Recently OFAC, FinCen, the FBI, and the NY DFS (New York's Department of Insurance) have each ruled separately that they would strongly...

Chris Burand
Jun 9, 20214 min read


The Simple Things
"The simple things you see are all complicated" --Pete Townshend This quote is from The Who's famous song, "Substitute." The song is...

Chris Burand
May 6, 20215 min read


Cyber: The Tale of Two Outcomes
I saw a story by a consulting firm that predicted cyber insurance sales would fill the estimated $50 billion hole caused by decreasing...

Chris Burand
May 3, 20215 min read


Agency Numbers
It was one of those situations where I needed a number, a piece of data that I remembered from years ago. I was searching through...

Chris Burand
Mar 15, 20213 min read


Another Reason People Don't Want to Buy Insurance
Henry Ford once said, "You can have it in any color you want, as long as it is black." I was reminded of this famous quote when I was...

Chris Burand
Mar 10, 20214 min read


Reviewing Your Homeowners' Book NOW is Critical
COVID-19 has changed home values significantly. In some cities, home prices have increased 25%-40%. Home building prices like lumber have...

Chris Burand
Feb 10, 20212 min read
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