Successful E-Marketing: Using Cutting-Edge Technology To Keep Customers Happy

Depending on how you felt about e-commerce before, current events in the tech world can inspire emotions ranging anywhere from despair to gloating. But before you decide that it's perhaps a good time to stay away from the Internet altogether, a number of experts are saying this may be the best time ever for agents to market and advertise ...

Features

Editor's Note: Overwhelmed by Your Inbox'

ERC Acquires, Reactivates New 'GE CyberComp' Brand

Two Calif.-Domiciled Workers' Comp Companies Conserved by CDI

Allianz Makes Deal to Purchase Dresdner Bank for $20.5 Billion

Oregon Hopes 'Fleming Fix' Will Clear the Clutter

Australian Insurer HIH Seeks Bankruptcy Protection as Losses Mount

Three Big Carriers Join Forces to Launch Web-Based Agency

First Nevada's Hopes End in Liquidation

Insurers Sound Off About Rate & Form Filing

Are You Ready to Put the Life Back into Your Agency'

Parting Shots: Living Through the Dot-Com Shakeout

Departments

Fraud Roundup

• It Takes Two to Crash This Lexus
• 'Guilty, Your Honor'
• Playing Tug-of-War with the Truth
• This Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
• Game Over for this Agent
• One Apple Didn't Fall Far From the Tree

Newsbriefs

• STATE FUND DOWNGRADED
• QUAKE MARKET BACK TO NORMAL
• WEIGHING TOLL OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH
• RATING BY ZIP CODE STILL OKAY
• BEAZLEY COMPLETES BUYOUT
• DANGER ON THE ROAD
• SAFECO STILL UNDER SCRUTINY
• ZURICH, INSUREZONE TEAM UP
• NEW WARNING FROM CLAIMS DIRECT

Ratings

• Zurich Units Under Review
• Sterling Casualty's 'BBBpi' Affirmed
• ERC Affirmed
• Munich Re Affirmed
• Fitch Affirms Arrow Re
• XL Affirmed
• AFC Re's 'A-' Withdrawn
• SAFECO Credit on Watch Evolving
• Fitch P/C Report Published

Tech Talk

• Taking Steps to Maximize Your Web Presence