Learn how to be a successful insurance agent with the simple techniques in 10 Steps to Success. Author Daniel S. Fowler utilizes his thirty years of experience in the insurance business to illustrate how to work smarter rather than harder toward building a successful insurance agency. Fowler's unique information applies to almost any business and will give you the tips you need to achieve your goals, including:

• Building relationships
• Marketing and business plans
• Listening to yourself and your clients
• The importance of good employees

This is the first book on captive insurance which thoroughly examines the relevant issues associated with starting a captive insurance company. Part I begins with a description of the companies most likely to benefit from a captive program. This is followed by a detailed outline and explanation of the formation process and ends with an overview of the tax issues encountered by a property and casualty insurance company.

Part II presents the first in-depth historical analysis of the entire history of U.S. captive insurance case law. It begins with the reserve cases of the early 20th century and is followed by the flood plane cases of the 1950s, the I.R.S. victories of the 1980s, the taxpayer victories of the 1990s and the I.R.S.’ safe harbor Revenue Rulings of the early 2000s.

With over 950 footnotes and 40 sources, this is the most complete treatment of captive insurance to date.

This is the first book on captive insurance which thoroughly examines the relevant issues associated with starting a captive insurance company. Part I begins with a description of the companies most likely to benefit from a captive program. This is followed by a detailed outline and explanation of the formation process and ends with an overview of the tax issues encountered by a property and casualty insurance company.

Part II presents the first in-depth historical analysis of the entire history of U.S. captive insurance case law. It begins with the reserve cases of the early 20th century and is followed by the flood plane cases of the 1950s, the I.R.S. victories of the 1980s, the taxpayer victories of the 1990s and the I.R.S.’ safe harbor Revenue Rulings of the early 2000s.

With over 950 footnotes and 40 sources, this is the most complete treatment of captive insurance to date.

This is the book to read if you want to learn about life insurance. You will learn to gauge your insurance needs. Choose wisely among the different kinds of policies. Pick the right insurance agent and company. Use your policy to escape estate taxes. Build up your cash reserves tax-free with mutual fund.

...Checked forty thousand medical bills and found that more than 97% contained errors... hospital overcharges exceeded undercharges by three to one!

"Doctors and hospitals have become the gang that can't bill straight ...Cost of overcharges to consumers are over $10 billion a year"
-Money Magazine

(I estimate it is closer to $40 billion a year)

The information provided in this book will give the reader the ammunition with which to confront the insurer, corporate entity or wrong doer on a more level playing field.

Unlike most other books on this subject, this work includes loss procedures under property insurance policies such as homeowners and commercial contracts.

The other driver’s insurance company has agreed to pay the cost to repair the collision damage to you new car, but is that all there is. No, you could be entitled to more. The section dealing with automobile property damage will disclose some cash you may have overlooked.

You or a resident relative hits an errant shot on the golf course and instead of its intended destination, the ball smashes the windshield of another member’s car on the parking lot. You are probably not legally liable for the damage, but you can be a “good guy” and pay the cost to repair under a special coverage in your homeowners’ policy. Look at all the possibilities in Infrequently Reported Homeowners Claims.

As a member of a same sex marriage in a state where such unions are recognized, what are your rights with respect to the injuries or wrongful death of a spouse? See chapter (Damages) for a discussion of this question.

The drunk driver who caused your injuries may not be your only source of restitution. Take a look at Liquor Liability.

A kitchen appliance you have not altered in any way causes a fire that seriously damages your home and injures you or members of your family. What are your rights with respect to claims against the manufacturer or vendor of the product?

If you, a friend or relative has been involved in an accident that might have been the fault of another or suffered an insured property loss, this book has the potential to save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, resulting from underpaid claims or needless expense.

• During his five year USCG training mission of the Venezuelan Coastguard Geary's disclosure of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Operation Deep Six to destabilize the elected government of Venezuela and install Hugo Chavez as president put him in the cross-hairs of the Agency. Silencing him became an even greater priority when Geary exposed the CIA's theft of high value yachts used in idiotic schemes to smuggle narcotics from Colombia to the United States.
• Gotcha delves into the flawed business practices of The London Salvage Association that ultimately destroyed an organization that's been around before the reign of Queen Victoria and exposes the fraud and "trickle-down-corruption" that has tainted the Lloyd's Agency System.
• After the melt-down of ENRON and WorldCom the cover-up of Arthur Andersen's fraudulent ship valuation conspiracy by the once reliable Lloyd's List in London challenges the imagination.

• During his five year USCG training mission of the Venezuelan Coastguard Geary's disclosure of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Operation Deep Six to destabilize the elected government of Venezuela and install Hugo Chavez as president put him in the cross-hairs of the Agency. Silencing him became an even greater priority when Geary exposed the CIA's theft of high value yachts used in idiotic schemes to smuggle narcotics from Colombia to the United States.
• Gotcha delves into the flawed business practices of The London Salvage Association that ultimately destroyed an organization that's been around before the reign of Queen Victoria and exposes the fraud and "trickle-down-corruption" that has tainted the Lloyd's Agency System.
• After the melt-down of ENRON and WorldCom the cover-up of Arthur Andersen's fraudulent ship valuation conspiracy by the once reliable Lloyd's List in London challenges the imagination.