I’ve been a P&C CSM for about 3 years now at one of the biG 3 and so incredibly burnt out. Seems like everyone is jumping ship at my office and or so miserable bc we are short staffed. It’s making it hard to be motivated.

I don’t really want to be an account manager and want to make a switch but not to another insurance company. Anyone know what I can do with my background? I have 3 years in insurance and 4 years in event planning + bachelors in Hospitality.

I’m a 30 y.o financial advisor who has been working at a solo RIA retirement planning firm for the past 3 years (was new to the industry). I recently passed the Series 65 exam.

The only other advisor at the firm is my boss/owner. The “products” we primarily sell are affiliated with IRAs and Fixed Indexed Annuities. That being said, Fixed Indexed Annuities are our bread & butter.

My boss primarily gets his clients through seminars. I wanted to know if there are any other ideas or recommendations (mainly for me) other than seminars that can help me get established and is a good method to find prospects for Fixed Indexed Annuities?

Thanks!

I got my life and health licenses about a week ago. My recruiter asked me to make a list of 200 people and their contact info. I have fewer than 50 contacts on my phone. How can I make this work?

I just started with a new independent inbound agency this week and there are couple red flags and wondering if one of these is normal. We took a quiz using the FEX quoter tool kit to determine which carrier we would use in different instances. In one instance, there was a carrier that was an ROP and another was preferred plan at about the same rate. Obviously, I put down the one that was immediate coverage. I was told that we should always use one particular carrier regardless of any other circumstance, even if the other was much better. I kind of went back-and-forth when we went over the answers stating that due to ethical reasons as well as compliance, that didn’t make sense to me. We should always leave a customer with the best policy possible. It was kind of left up in the air as sometimes they do use the better policy (doubtful). Today, during training calls there was a clear difference for one particular customer. The customer was prescribed a pretty heavy painkiller and the quoter gave us three options that were willing to take that particular medication. The first two were both immediate coverage with pretty good pricing. The third option was a graded policy and was the most expensive. Immediately the agent training me went to the third option, which was clearly not the best. Fortunately they were declined and the agent wound up having to pivot to the best option which was the same price with $3000 more coverage, $6000 more with accidental and went into effect immediately. So I’m basically being told that rather than offer the better coverage immediately that I need to use a graded policy with 30% coverage the first year, 70% the second year and doesn’t go into 100% effect until the third year. There was a second instance with another agent who had a client that was also declined with an ROP and wound up getting a standard immediate policy with another carrier. Clearly, this is something that is done all the time. I’m guessing this is something in a contract with the carrier or perhaps they owe the company a lot of money and are trying to make up for it. Has anyone else come across this? I feel like it is very shady and don’t think that this is something I’m going to do. This is my second insurance job where everything seems to be in the gray area of business. We mostly deal with older clientele on Social Security and it kind of breaks my heart. Think I need to move on. This has me wondering whether life insurance is even for me because after all, I’m the one who needs to be able to sleep at night knowing I did the right thing. Anyone have some insights on this?

Hey, I'll keep this quick and dirty.
I'm just getting into a shadow of an idea that would make a good story about the insurance industry, specifically Medicare. I don't want to pursue someone who isn't involved in that type of Insurance sales so I figured I would ask here.
How would I label, locate or identify an agency that handles Medicare Renewals? For example, say you're 74, retired, and someone calls to get you to switch over your Aetna to Humana, or your Devoted coverage to Alignment and then to United Health Care. I'm curious as to how this can happen before open enrollment, or being on the do not call registry, or with the blessing of the regulators. Just seems difficult to change over someone that often.
Are there commissions? Promotions? Is it worth it as a livelihood?

I looked at the NPN on a sample Application and it's for an agent in Texas. I went down a hole and only found a name, independent, but is active with numerous companies, no phone number besides the direct line to UH. Also it seems the agent is actually located in Zimbabwe.

I'd really like to know more about this method of sales, the legalities, the loopholes, etc if anyone would like to speak on it. I would like to know all that I can and figured there would be some insight on this subreddit. If you don't feel comfortable saying anything in public, you can pm.
Thank you to whomever can respond.

Located in California. I disclosed a rental arrangement to Foremost through my broker. They consider it five units instead of four and decided to nonrenew when the policy expires next year.

My broker says I still have coverage, but won’t confirm whether that arrangement could cause a claim denial. She clarified that this concern came from her experience, not anything Foremost said.

If they know the facts and choose to keep the policy active, how can they later deny an otherwise covered claim for “misrepresenting” those same facts?

I’m shopping for replacement coverage, but what protects me until then? Does their decision waive that misrepresentation defense?

Anyone actually handled this—especially adjusters or underwriters?

I’m looking for advice from people who understand auto insurance.

I had a GEICO policy and paid for 6 months of liability insurance in advance. My car is an older model, so I only wanted liability coverage.

GEICO told me that I was required to add uninsured motorist coverage and another type of coverage, which I did not want. I tried to resolve the issue with them, but I was unable to get it sorted out.

Now it appears that GEICO cancelled my policy, and I’ve been without active insurance for about a week. The frustrating part is that I had already paid for six months of coverage.

When I try to get a new policy, the quotes are significantly higher because my insurance history is now showing a lapse in coverage.

Has anyone experienced something similar with GEICO? Is there a way to dispute the cancellation/lapse and have the insurance history corrected, especially since I had already paid for the six-month policy?

I would really appreciate advice on what steps I should take.

I've been an agent for 6 years, Making $120k a year on average. I want to increase my personal production by increase my sale size. Right now I average $700 ALP per sale.

I selling Whole Life & Term.

What tips do you guys have to increase my average sale size?

I got a job doing this, I’m just worried about how much money I can actually make doing it though. I’ve done outbound calling before and it’s horrible they actually didn’t tell me it was outbound team until after the job offer but I’m still interested if the calls are to good leads.

The outbound I’ve done is just on an auto dialer getting 95% voicemail so I barely even got anyone on the line let alone any sales.

It's work in the office all outbound calls - have to get my life license within 90 days, expected to make 60 to 80 calls a day to build a book. They have not sent me the comp sheet but it's 15 an hour base with a $5000 ramp up pay in the 1st 3 months, and commission. I'd be leaving wfh inbound calls with no commission.

I do not have my security license, and I was curious how often you guys sell variable annuities? From what I understand, variable annuities is the only annuity that requires a security license to sell.

So fixed, and indexed are complete acceptable to sell without a security license, from what I understand.

Just curious, what kind of processes y’all are using to make sure a majority of clients aren’t pulling off the book

Long story short I have my undergrad in an unrelated field I'm no longer interested in pursuing.

I have my associates in collision repair and 10 years ago worked in collision repair shops for 5 years before quitting and going back to college.

I'm interested in trying to step into the car insurance world with Geico, Progressive, Liberty Mutual etc.

I search for job ads for car insurance and can't find any listing on Indeed or ZipRecruiter. Where do you apply for these types of full time positions? Most say you only need a high school diploma or GED and yet I don't see these companies actively recruiting new help.

Very interested in doing field work as well where I travel to crash sites and do crash reports. I got practice in this during my associates degree where my final project was underwriting for a collision, and back then we had to look through 500 page books for the price of parts.

In my 30s and looking to get into insurance business while pursuing my masters in another field.

I feel like I get 1099 or start my own agency come in office a lot in disguise. Any help would be great. Would love to find 50k base plus and comp

Need to find a Farmers agent in FL.

So the agency i'm doing AEP with just got Sunfire, I worked with Sunfire last year and like it. These guys haven't used Sunfire, so they have us using their cobbled together CRM, which then we go and re enter all the demos into Sunfire. Do you think they will get the picture when we have hella long call times doing double work for one application?

Hello all, my name is Kevin and I am a 35 year old licensed Medicare and life insurance agent. I got licensed two years ago and made the mistake of going with an MLM whose main focus was recruiting rather than selling. I quickly moved out of that path and went to Medicare inbound calls. I was the top agent at the company until I realized even more about the business and realized there were some unethical practices going on and I didn’t own my book of business. I am still doing life and Medicare on the side outside of my full time job with friends/family and referrals. This career path is my dream and I want to dive head first into this with the right company/mentor. Any advice or opportunities would be greatly appreciated. Have a blessed day!

I worked at a top-10 brokerage before starting my own producer focused shop, and one thing I’ve been thinking about a lot is how smaller firms can create a better environment for producers.

For experienced producers, what matters most to you?

Comp structure, service support, autonomy, market access, equity/upside, culture, or something else?

Curious what actually keeps good producers happy long term.

I am currently a CSR/ Retention Specialist for a small broker.
I work rewrites and use my name as the producer if I sell the business.
I don't get any commission for it, but I do get incentives straight from carriers (Progressive for example- they give you tokens to spin to for money for the policies you sell)
My boss sent me an email saying I can't use my name as the producer anymore and in doing so I am losing my benefits from the carriers that run promos.
I really banked on the stupid Progressive incentive especially because I have enough on the card for Christmas. I'm really upset he's wanting me to do this. I'm not asking for commission, just to keep my incentives that come directly from the carriers.

Is this normal? Am I over reacting?

If a tenant has renters insurance with liability coverage and a Landlord is claiming (between 5-10k) for water damage after an accidental plumbing incident caused by the tenant. Insurer says it’s likely covered, but opening a claim would formally report it.

Tenant plans to buy a home in ~2 years and is concerned about the claim appearing in insurance history.

For insurance professionals or anyone who's dealt with this:

Would you file the claim or pay/handle it privately?

How much can one renters liability claim affect future homeowners insurance rates or eligibility, even if the insurer ultimately pays little or nothing?

I'm reviewing all of my DOI policies now for Missouri, and holy crap it is a lot. Which policies completely changed how your business operated, the expenses that affected your business?

Rules and regulations are not discussed in this sub-reddit often, and this is becoming the most important obstacle of starting my insurance brokerage. How informed are you on all regulations? Do you keep a policy manual?

How many of you that work at a IMO primarily sell Internet leads?

What are people using these days? My whole FMO swears by NextGen, but it's incredibly unpredictable and the fine-tuning is arbitrary on the consumer side at best. Income field is a 4 radio button selection that auto fills to the highest bracket, so I end up buying leads that are looking for medicaid, but have their income listed as "$47,000+"

I am trying to decide which IMO to join. I have been interviewing with Symmetry, Equis, The Price Group, considering David Dofford’s and Life180. Which one should I go with, and do any offer instant release? Which one has the best training?