Farmers says AgencyPoint is a large-scale business development recruitment center in Owings Mills, Md., that will offer a unique opportunity to anyone looking to become an independent business owner with Farmers. The Owings Mills AgencyPoint will be staffed with Farmers employees who will offer intensive, hands-on training to candidates who will become Farmers agents. Farmers adds that this is the 15th state in the Eastern Market expansion for Farmers.
Lincoln National Corp. is in advanced talks with Talcott Financial Group for a reinsurance deal that would shift billions of dollars of life insurance reserves off its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
Many insurance agents are planning to increase their use of AI but many aren't using it yet, according to the Association for Independent Insurance Agents Agents Council for Technology tech trends report.
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More than half of the participants in the global insurer's incubator program are AI focused or using AI in some way for their functions.
Rema Matevosyan, the company's co-founder, spoke with Digital Insurance about providing higher-resolution property images at scale.
While total real premium growth will likely drop in 2026, rapid investment of AI data centers is offsetting shocks from supply-chain disruptions.
