Hester, Heitel & Associates, an independent insurance agency in Phoenix, has been chosen as the spotlight agency to represent Project CAP’s Agency 2020 program. Agency 2020 was designed to provide independent agencies with resources to help them implement a long-term …
An Illinois agent has received an award from the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA or Big ‘I’) for his work on behalf of crop insurance agents. Brian McSherry of Illinois is the 2012 recipient of the Sidney …
InsurBanc — a federal savings bank founded by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America and W.R. Berkley Corp. a dozen years ago — has joined Connecticut Community Bank N.A., based in Westport, Conn., effective April 1. Under the …
When it comes to the 2012 presidential election, insurance agents have, as industry insiders like to say, “skin in the game.” In addition to being concerned with how the overall economy will perform under either a re-elected President Barack Obama …
Members of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) have elected David Purinai, who is president of MSH Insurance in Rocky Mount, N.C., as the association’s new chairman of the board of directors for the 2012-13 term. Purinai was …
The number of independent insurance agencies has increased, newer agencies are growing and the system as a whole is dynamic, according to the 2012 Agency Universe Study. The study also documents that independent agencies appear to be increasingly using social …
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) announced that David Allen Walker was installed as the association’s vice chairman at the association’s recent Leadership Conference in Atlanta. Walker is president of Hartland Insurance Agency …
A House subcommittee has advanced a bill that would exclude agency commissions from the formula that limits how much health insurers can spend on administrative and other non-medical costs. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee …
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (the Big “I”) has awarded an Iowa agency owner, Bob Fulwider, with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its members The Woodworth Memorial Award, presented at the …
Robust merger and acquisition activity, carrier relocations and an aging workforce are influencing independent insurance agencies in ways an agency owner might not have experienced decades ago. But Bob Bramlett, president and CEO of The Bramlett Agency in Ardmore, Okla., …
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