Craig Hall, The Business Times: “In my experience, most people look at two things when purchasing an individual health care policy,” says Bill Brown, an agent selling who has been health policies since the early 1970’s, “And that is to concern themselves with the parts of the policy they will use the most; prescriptions and […]
Craig Hall, The Business Times: Many businesses believe their insurance needs are covered with basic workers’ comp and property and casualty insurance, and that cannot be farther from the truth as it relates to the current economy and our ever-evolving technology based business environment. “The fact is, most business owners have little to no idea just […]
Craig Hall, The Business Times: “My agency is focused on people that own businesses,” say LaVonne Gorsuch, a State Farm agent in Grand Junction, “And because we have a relationship with the business owner that goes beyond writing insurance, we can more accurately understand just what it is they are looking to protect and plan […]
Craig Hall, The Business Times: One of the most difficult issues to address in an economy such as we have now is in just how many fewer service people may use,” says Neil Waldron, Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Strategic Services for Rocky Mountain Health Plans (RMHP), “When coupled with the fact that people have […]
Craig Hall, The Business Times: Western Colorado is experiencing a mixed bag when it comes to insurance rates. Jamie Lummis, a partner at Moody Insurance Agency in Grand Junction says that property and casualty rates are competitive, workers’ compensation had its first rate increase in nearly ten years and health insurance rates are continuing to increase. […]
I remember the day so clearly. I had just returned from a buddy golf trip to Seattle, and Nikki confirmed what we suspected before I left. While we were driving to a friend’s house to catch the Monday night football game after picking me up at Walker Field, Nikki told to me we were going […]
If there’s one constant in business, it’s that it’s always changing. Nothing could be more true for small businesses, especially in this economy. And as we head into September, changes are indeed coming to the Business Times. The paper has actually grown while weathering the economic storm pretty well. We’ve grown in producing 36- to […]
Politicians are fond of picking numbers out of thin air to suit their particular agendas. They feel if one repeats the numbers often enough, like many in the mainstream media are all too happy to do, then Americans will come to accept them as an unquestioned truth. More importantly, these truths become things that only […]
One of my favorite sayings is from Ronald Reagan, who said the scariest 10 words in the English language are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.” Well, with great humility to those leaders and visionaries I keep on a Word document on my desktop, I ‘m going to add to my […]
I can still remember the day and the feeling. I was sitting in the board room of a local bank about three months after my brother died and I moved to town to take over the Business Times. In a meeting with my family, our business banker and the bank president, the president spoke these […]