The Future of Captive and Non-Captive Agents: UPDATE
November 29th, 2006 by Megan Mahan
I received some pretty great feedback via email regarding yesterday’s post and thought I’d use my blog time today to share with you some of that feedback, and clear up any misconceptions that may have arisen.
Firstly, when it comes to the agents on the InsureMe network, I should tell you that we work with both captive agents and independents, as well as with brokers. I can also tell you that we tend to look at our agent base as, well, our base, rather than divvying it up into “captives” and “non-captives”.
Do special accomodations need to be made once in a while? Sure. And that’s just the shape of things. At the end of the day, we’ve got about 60-odd people here who genuinely appreciate our agents and strive to give all of them the best possible experience. Definitely no red-headed stepchild syndrome going on here.
But enough about InsureMe.
I also received a great email from Ryan today (who prompted me to give my two cents about captives and non-captives last week), and thought I’d share an excerpt (with his permission of course):





As I mentioned in yesterday’s quickie post, last week we received a comment from one of our readers, Ryan, asking about the future of captive insurance agencies. Namely, would they be able to compete against independent agents offering a range of products and services from different companies?

Insurance isn’t terribly exciting. Or sexy. Or cool. But 
