Reader Survey: Way to Grow!

I don't know which is more remarkable, the fact that more than one in three respondents to our 1998 Reader Survey said their companies had acquired a company during the past two years, or that they reported a median incentive budget that has nearly doubled (to $950,000) since our last survey, two years ago. Insurance may have started out the 1990s as a lumbering industry in decline, but it's moving to close out the century with a bit of a swagger.