Planning for the future of your agency is crucial. As an owner, you have put in years of hard work and dedication to building your business. Whether you plan to sell your agency or need to prepare for unexpected circumstances, you need to ensure that it is in good hands and that it continues to thrive in the future.
At Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions Consultants (IMAC), we understand the importance of succession and continuity planning for independent insurance agency owners. Our team of experts has decades of experience in insurance M&A and we offer a comprehensive Succession and Continuity Planning service that can help you plan for the future of your agency.
Succession planning involves preparing your agency for the next buyer to take over. At IMAC, we work closely with you to identify potential successors and develop their skills and capabilities. We also create a plan for transferring knowledge and leadership, ensuring a smooth transition of ownership and leadership when the time comes to sell or retire. Our comprehensive approach ensures that you get maximum dollar value from the sales process and find the perfect buyer to carry on your legacy.
Continuity planning is focused on ensuring that your agency can continue to operate effectively even if you need to step away from the business for a period of time due to unexpected events such as illness, injury, disability, or personal matters. At IMAC, we help you identify key personnel who can step in and take over responsibilities, as well as develop contingency plans to ensure that the agency can continue to operate smoothly during your absence.
Our team of professional consultants at IMAC provide expert guidance throughout the planning process while maintaining 100% confidentiality of your information. Through our extensive network of contacts in the insurance industry, we have ongoing relationships with some of the top agency buyers in the nation, from private equity investors to individual agency owners looking to expand their business. We pre-screen prospective buyers to ensure that all offers have the financial backing to close the deal and provide a match at top value–with several back-up offers waiting in the wings.
Our knowledge of agency values is second to none, and we know when an estimate is undervalued and when to ask for a second opinion. As mergers and acquisitions professionals, our expertise also extends to reviewing deal terms and raising concerns on your behalf during the negotiation process. From preparing your agency for the future to managing the planning and negotiation process, we’re here to help you ensure maximum dollar value with minimum disruption to you. Fill out the form below and one of our consultants will be in touch to walk you through the process, gather the relevant information and start your Succession and Continuity Planning.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to