When working on succession plans and selling your practice, there are plenty of tripwires. It's worthwhile to understand how you can avoid them.

When spreadsheets and auction-based solutions were the only thing we needed to lower costs for our clients, the producer model might have worked. But somehow, over the last 30 years, we forgot to ask if that model was still viable.

"There are a lot of people getting very wealthy along this supply chain," says Senator Susan Collins.

"I imagine there are a lot of questions being posted and everyone is trying to figure out what this means," one labor and employment lawyer says.