Chris Amrhein

Chris Amrhein, like most true believers in insurance, stumbled upon this business accidentally; specifically, after graduating from college and needing a job.
After beginning in this business as a life-health agent, he graduated to property-casualty sales where he first met the greatest mine of comedy material extant today, the ISO forms. Following several years as a producer and independent agency manager/owner, Chris spent many years as a full-time educator/VP-Education for the Florida Association of Insurance Agents and VP-Education for the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. Those years found him traveling about the country teaching seminars on everything from agency management to the claims made CGL. It has also taught him the absolute truth of Jimmy Buffet's famous observation about those who make a career of the property-casualty business: "If we weren't all crazy we would go insane."
Chris is now a speaker, consultant, seminar leader and training developer, and resides in Lorton, Virginia, with the love of his life (and wife) Donna and youngest son Alexandru (17). His two older sons - Patrick, 34 and Kevin, 32 – are doing quite well without him. His email address chris@insuranceisfun.com and website www.insuranceisfun.com, say it all.
Current Industry Activities:
- Member, CPCU Oversight Committee
- Member, Accredited Adviser in Insurance (AAI) Advisory Committee.
- Primary Author (AAI textbooks):
- Foundations of Insurance Production – Personal Insurance
- Multiple-Lines Insurance Production – Commercial Liability Insurance
- Agency Operations and Sales Management – Principles of Agency Management
- Monthly columnist (1993-present) - "Policy Issues" - Insurance Journal & American Agent & Broker Magazine
- Faculty member: IIABA’s Virtual University; Society of CIC James K. Ruble Seminars
- Developer of “Street Level Ethics” Program for AICPCU/IIA
Past Activities:
- Chairman. IIABA Future One Producer Development Task Force
- Member, IIABA Future One Subcommittee on Customer Service
- Author/Editor - Florida General Lines, Customer Representatives and Adjuster Study Manuals
- Member, IIABA Agency Management & Technology Committee
Hope I Die Before I Get Old Else Medicare is Going to Knock me Cold
Whether you are seeking help in properly planning this inevitable rite of passage for a spouse, parent, relative or your own journey through the this retirement "right of passage", harvest the value of experience and join us.
The Human Asset: Life & Health Risk Mgmt for the P&C Agent
This course is designed to provide students with methods to recognize and provide solutions for this missing piece of the client coverage puzzle, utilizing already known standard risk management techniques.
Social Networking: OMG or E&O
Social networking is expanding rapidly and agents are encouraged by everyone around to jump in or miss the boat. At the same time the rapid evolution of the technology and vast seemingly instantaneous dispersal of information can leave the agency subject to new and unknown issues affecting errors and omissions.
ISO's New CGL and AI's: Trap or Treat?
With the launch of ISO's first significant revision to the CGL program in six years,provisions affecting Additional Insureds in both the standard CGL and AI endorsements may be the most crucial for agents and insureds to understand.
Property Valuation
This session will discuss the problems, pitfalls and potential solutions to a massive yet largely overlooked insurance industry issue.
Five Claims Secrets No Lawyer Wants You to Know
Have you ever wondered how attorneys - who attend exactly none of our industry's plethora of training, continuing education (CE), or designation sessions - have managed to create a massive profit niche out of inserting themselves into insurance claim resolutions?
Top 10 Things Agents do Everyday - But Shouldn't
If you've even wanted to turn potential E&O from mere CYA to ROI - or simply wish you could turn everyday chaos into potential growth, this session is for you.
RC + ACV = E&O: Why Most Property Insurance Values are Wrong
This session will discuss the problems, pitfalls and potential solutions to a massive yet largely overlooked insurance industry issue.