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YOUNG INDEPENDENT AGENTS WANT MORE TECHNOLOGY

Young independent insurance agents identify technology to help them more easily write business and service customers as the second most important thing-after competitive rates-carriers can offer an independent insurance agency. Drive Insurance Group of Mayfield Village, Ohio-based Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. discovered this while conducting a survey of more than 750 young (40 years of age or younger or those who have been in the industry less than 10 years) independent agents. The majority of young independent insuran

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