Louise Lague

Lague is a contributing writer.
What a Long, Strange Trip
Lifestyle What a Long, Strange Trip
From Apple commercials to insurance epiphanies, stardom takes a while.
March 1, 2023
Is Insurance One of the Good Things?
Lifestyle Is Insurance One of the Good Things?
John Krasinski does the insurance world proud and more good news.
January 17, 2023
Albert Brooks
Lifestyle Albert Brooks
Show your LTC some TLC.
December 1, 2022
Greg Kinnear
Lifestyle Greg Kinnear
Who cares what the policy says if the agent is good looking?
November 1, 2022
Phil Collins
Lifestyle Phil Collins
SIUs and creepy tin clowns—the colorful side of insurance.
September 29, 2022
Caitlyn Jenner
Lifestyle Caitlyn Jenner
“Your ability to grow as a person is directly related to the amount of insecur...
September 1, 2022
Brian Cox
Lifestyle Brian Cox
Insurance violence didn’t get him anywhere, but media brutality has been a win...
July 12, 2022
Jack Kerouac
Lifestyle Jack Kerouac
“I’m not a beatnik. I’m a Catholic.”
May 31, 2022
Renée Zellweger
Lifestyle Renée Zellweger
Murder for insurance became this woman’s way of real life.
May 6, 2022
Dwayne Hickman
Lifestyle Dwayne Hickman
Male, pale but never stale.
April 1, 2022
Johnny Depp
Lifestyle Johnny Depp
He has a no-cancellation clause.
February 28, 2022
Franklin Pierce Adams
Lifestyle Franklin Pierce Adams
He moved from insurance to writing the weather column. It was only up from there...
January 18, 2022
John DeLorean
Lifestyle John DeLorean
Developing an algorithm to sell life policies to engineers: what’s boring abou...
November 30, 2021
Mick Jagger
Lifestyle Mick Jagger
He’ll insure you all have a good time.
November 1, 2021
Alan Arkin
Lifestyle Alan Arkin
He perfectly portrayed the madcap life of an insurance agent.
October 1, 2021
Jack Nicklaus
Lifestyle Jack Nicklaus
Focus on remedies, not faults: a winner’s ethos.
August 31, 2021
Nick Jonas
Lifestyle Nick Jonas
Who better as an insurance ambassador than a Disney kid gone buck wild?
July 20, 2021
Evel Knievel
Lifestyle Evel Knievel
Can one really be too macho for insurance?
June 1, 2021
John Travolta
Lifestyle John Travolta
Confident, oily, charming…luckily it’s only vaguely about insurance.
May 2, 2021
William H. Macy
Lifestyle William H. Macy
Cheating on the SATs is a different kind of insurance.
March 26, 2021
Chevy Chase
Lifestyle Chevy Chase
If you can’t quote Fletch, are you really in insurance?
February 28, 2021
Blake Lively
Lifestyle Blake Lively
Nothing represents women in insurance better than pom-poms.
January 15, 2021
Liam Neeson
Lifestyle Liam Neeson
An insurance producer kicking arse at 65? That is hot.
November 30, 2020
Insurance Touches Us All
Lifestyle Insurance Touches Us All
A quirky career is book-ended with one solid feature: insurance.
October 29, 2020
Carl Reiner
Lifestyle Carl Reiner
Enter laughing.
September 24, 2020
Gérard Depardieu
Lifestyle Gérard Depardieu
“There is always another story. There is more than meets the eye.”
August 20, 2020
Woody Allen
Lifestyle Woody Allen
When nobody wants the lead role, it might be a clue your movie’s a dud.
July 9, 2020
Warren Beatty
Lifestyle Warren Beatty
When cynicism and populism meet, insurers are still the bad guys.
May 26, 2020
Tyrone Power
Lifestyle Tyrone Power
His role as an insurance broker in his first ever film led to stardom.
April 27, 2020
Glenn Jacobs
Lifestyle Glenn Jacobs
Turns out Kane was able.
March 27, 2020
Robin Williams
Lifestyle Robin Williams
"Any body will do."
March 1, 2020
Stephen Tobolowsky
Lifestyle Stephen Tobolowsky
Ya snooze, ya lose.
November 26, 2019
Christopher Nolan
Lifestyle Christopher Nolan
His neo-noir psycho killer thriller pairs insurance with tattoos to rattle minds...
October 29, 2019
Forest Whitaker
Lifestyle Forest Whitaker
The insurance man was not as appealing to Hollywood as Idi Amin.
October 1, 2019
Matthew McConaughey
Lifestyle Matthew McConaughey
The insurance agent is the most likable guy.
August 21, 2019
Dick Powell
Lifestyle Dick Powell
Highballs and suburbia got pretty boring.
July 12, 2019
Carly Craig
Lifestyle Carly Craig
Hot insurance agent gets 252 Tinder hits.
April 19, 2019
Rami Malek
Lifestyle Rami Malek
Tribute to Old-Country Insurance Man
March 27, 2019
Vicki Gunvalson
Lifestyle Vicki Gunvalson
In a boring industry? Whoop it up.
March 1, 2019
Jay Ajayi
Lifestyle Jay Ajayi
Receiving from the Bench
January 22, 2019
James Corden
Lifestyle James Corden
A Jewel of a Cameo
November 30, 2018
Herman and Philip Roth
Lifestyle Herman and Philip Roth
Lasting Lessons in Last Things
November 1, 2018
Shirley MacLaine and Jessica Lange
Lifestyle Shirley MacLaine and Jessica Lange
Feeling Their Whole Life Oats
September 28, 2018
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery
Lifestyle Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery
The Bond of Insurance Fraud
August 30, 2018
Eliot Spitzer
Lifestyle Eliot Spitzer
The infamous attorney general inspired at least three films, none of which comes...
August 6, 2018
Ernest Hemingway
Lifestyle Ernest Hemingway
Known for his killer novels, he had a hand in film noir.
May 22, 2018
Congressman Tom MacArthur
Lifestyle Congressman Tom MacArthur
He conquered insurance. Then, he set out to legislate it.
April 30, 2018
Ben Stiller
Lifestyle Ben Stiller
Somehow Gets It Right
April 17, 2018
Peter Ustinov
Lifestyle Peter Ustinov
Hercule Poirot, Insurance Investigator
March 19, 2018
Linda Fiorentino
Lifestyle Linda Fiorentino
It’s the women you have to watch out for.
February 9, 2018
Bob Hope
Lifestyle Bob Hope
A life insurance policy for a gunslinger? That’s the premise of Alias Jesse Ja...
December 14, 2017
Tom Williams
Lifestyle Tom Williams
Southern charm combined with shrewd business acumen.
November 30, 2015
Dream Weaver
Industry Dream Weaver
IMA Financial’s Rob Cohen lives his dream while helping others to create their...
October 1, 2011
All Roads Lead to Rose
Industry All Roads Lead to Rose
Brenda Rose, of Toronto’s FCA Insurance Brokers, rose from liberal arts major ...
July 1, 2011
Role Model
Industry Role Model
Stan Loar’s Great Adventure: The public face of Woodruff-Sawyer keeps you gues...
March 16, 2011
Women on Top
Industry Women on Top
Women are now better educated than men across the board. It is only a matter of ...
December 10, 2010
Proactive Is Not Active Enough
Lifestyle Proactive Is Not Active Enough
With his nonstop lifestyle, Johnny Pitts has grown the business nine-fold since ...
September 30, 2010
YouTube Star
Lifestyle YouTube Star
Bob Klonk’s disarming brilliance, arm-twisting passion and YouTube stardom are...
June 1, 2010
It Was No Circus
Brokerage Ops It Was No Circus
Ryan Wilkerson’s trial by fire—at only 27—saved Haas & Wilkerson, his fami...
April 1, 2010