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Each year, DBL Center insurance brokers eagerly await the new premium rates for the next year for New Jersey TDB and New York DBL insurance. A rate hike from the states means enhanced opportunities for brokers as business owners seek ways to save money on statutory benefits. This fall, we have even more to report.
Trust The DBL Center to manage DBL, Paid Family Leave, and ancillary lines One of the benefits of working with The DBL Center is to have a specialist in your corner that understands required and ancillary benefits. For larger insurance brokers, these benefits might make up a small piece of their revenue. But they can
Colorado Small Business Owners Save Money by Privatizing FAMLI Sage Benefit Advisors, an Alera Group Company, is a health and employee benefits insurance agency in Fort Collins, Colorado. The company specializes in businesses under 50 lives. “Our average client type is 10 lives; we just happen to have over 1,000 of them. Our niche is
With Labor Day around the corner, people are debating about whether it’s too early to start bringing out the boots, sweaters, and pumpkin spice. But for The DBL Center and our insurance brokers, we are two steps ahead. We are already considering the end of the year. You know that as an insurance broker, the
Find out how The DBL Center, Your Insurance Wholesaler, can help you leverage these required benefits in states with family leave laws to save your clients money and use these funds to expand your book of business and earn more commission. This summer, Maine joined the growing list of states with family leave laws. It
The rapidly growing team at The DBL Center adds another name to our list of insurance experts ready to help our brokers with required benefits in specific states along with ancillary and group benefits across the U.S. The DBL Center recently appointed John Byrne Jr., formerly with Principal Financial Group, as Group Benefits Sales Representative.
In 2021, the DBL Center launched a first-of-its-kind desktop and mobile app to help insurance brokers track their renewals, cancellations, and commissions. The Broker Dashboard: Net Revenue Tracker provided technology never utilized before in the P&C and statutory insurance industries. Brokers who take advantage of this free platform receive emails when their clients’ policies are
See the DBL Center’s Michael Cohen share his secrets to long-term success. DBL Center managing partner Michael S. Cohen recently chatted with long-time friend Adam Forgione on an hour-long podcast, Elevate: Stories to Grow the Mind Full Support to Help You Earn More Maximizing your revenue potential with Net Revenue Tracker Dashboard. They began by
Paid Family Leave (PFL) and Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) programs expand across the U.S. in 2023. A recent study from the CommonCentsMom.com found that the U.S. ranks the worst in the developed world for early childcare. The study analyzed the costs of early childcare in 40 countries relative to the mother’s income, how
Sonja Spruiel joins The DBL Center as our new VP Business Development & Disability Underwriter. Spruiel comes from Arch Insurance, where she was the Regional Business Development Manager, Accident & Health. Prior to Arch, Spruiel worked at Standard Life as the EB Disability Underwriter specializing in Group Life and Short- and Long-Term Disability in the
Every year, Michael Cohen, president and CEO of The DBL Center, recognizes his employees and celebrates the year’s success with a holiday party. Past parties have been at trendy Long Island location’s like the speakeasy-style bar, The Founder’s Room, in Huntington’s Paramount Theater and other first-class eateries. This year, The DBL Center team celebrated with