Don Jergler

Want a simple, yet effective agency management tip for making your employees happy? Treat them like customers. That mindset stood out among comments from

It's often easy to put a finger on exactly why someone likes their job, and if there's more than one thing to like, that says something good about the

It's a family affair at Heritage Insurance Agency and not just because a husband-and-wife team run the firm.

A Senate Budget Committee report shows how dangerous climate change is to the nation's financial system as well as how bad it could be for homeowners seeking affordable insurance.

Wildfires and their effect on the California's homeowners insurance crisis dominated Insurance Journal's West headlines this year.

It was all about the storms this year. They were the big news surrounding the insurance industry, with several named storms hitting in a severe and costly Atlantic hurricane season, and a few massive natural catastrophes abroad driving up losses and wreaking havoc globally.

Active wind-driven wildfires in Southern California are estimated to have burned more than 1,000 properties and prompted evacuation orders for more than 80,000 residents, leading to what industry watchers say will likely generate large insured losses not seeing in California for a number of years.

With aerial firefighting returning as strong Southern California winds died down for a bit, damage assessments from a handful of destructive Los Angeles area blazes are sure to become clearer—likely pushing up billion-dollar-plus insured loss estimates put forth from fires that are only three days old.

As firefighters gain more control over what have become the most destructive wildfires in U.S. history in a matter of days, the scale of the destruction and losses is becoming clearer.

Here's stark warning in a new report from a group of actuaries: the global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090.