SPECIAL REPORT: Salute to Independent Agents

Twenty-nine year old Peter Webb served his country in the U.S. Marines for eight years. Since then, Sergeant Webb has spent four years serving small businesses as an account manager and producer for an Oklahoma City independent agency. Now just as his insurance career is solidifying, Webb is facing deployment to Iraq within the year as a member ...

Features

Editor's Note: Developing federal issue

Habitational properties get closer to home

Safety group dividend program gives profits back to habitational insureds

Premium growth: Should it be measured by company or by group?

Globalization of directors and officers coverage

Idea Exchange: 2007 Agency Salary Survey says ...

Idea Exchange: Brokers experience no shortage in M&A activity in first quarter 2007

Idea Exchange: 10 free and easy ways to drive traffic to your agency's Web site

Closing Quote: McCarran-Ferguson emerges as No. 1 threat to independent agents

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• Maryland agents get notice relief
• Mass. judge throws book at injury case perjurer
• Delaware agent groups on verge of merger
• N.J. ruling could affect 10,000 drunk driving cases
• Judge rejects antitrust, racketeering charges in brokerage suit
• Bush administration rejects pleas for federal disaster plan
• Congressional hearings examine the need for national disaster solution
• Banks' total insurance revenue dipped
• SEC agrees to ease Sarbanes-Oxley rules for small firms
• Lloyd's posts more than $7 billon in record pre-tax profit

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• TRIAL STARTS FOR FORMER MARSH EXECS
• USI HOLDINGS GRANTED LIMIT ON COPYRIGHT DAMAGES

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