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The Hartford Joins Agents’ Trusted Choice Website for Small Commercial Lines
May 28 2015 // The Trusted Choice.com website has snagged a leading agency system insurer to help independent agencies sell more small business policies online. The Hartford has joined the TrustedChoice.com online commercial insurance...
Ames & Gough Hires Bateson as Senior Broker in Virginia
May 28 2015 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service firms, hired Jay Bateson as senior...
Texas All Risk General Agency, Inc.’s Technology Brings Growth in Houston
May 28 2015 // Dallas, TX, May 28, 2015 – Following 3 years of exceptional results in personal lines, Texas All Risk General Agency, Inc. is again expanding it’s homeowners/dwelling fire aggregate in the Greater Houston...
Google Compare and ITC in Online Partnership That Brings Agents into Mix
May 27 2015 // Google Compare is using a rating system provided by Insurance Technologies Corp., the Carrollton, Texas-based software provider announced Wednesday. In making the announcement ITC’s top executive said it’s a...
Former Ohio Agent Sentenced for Insurance Fraud, Theft
May 27 2015 // A former Ohio insurance agent was sentenced in early May after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and theft, Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor announced. Former McConnelsville insurance agent James Brent Whitehouse was...
Page Joins Southwest Risk as VP, Broker in Dallas
May 27 2015 // Southwest Risk LP has added Robin Page as a vice president and broker in the company’s Dallas office. Page began his insurance career with Chubb in 1973 as a property, inland marine and package underwriter in Dallas....
Small Businesses Bypassing Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange
May 27 2015 // Minnesota’s health insurance exchange is having a big problem with attracting small businesses. MNsure was originally expected to cover 155,000 people in small-group plans by next year. Enrollment was only 1,405...
Wall Street Doesn’t Like Obama Plan on Retirement Brokers’ Fiduciary Duty
May 27 2015 // The head of Wall Street’s self-regulator criticized the Obama administration’s effort to impose stricter standards on brokers who manage retirement accounts, saying the rule would make it difficult for smaller...
Are You One of THOSE Agents?
May 27 2015 // Most of my insurance career has been on the agency side, but I have also worked on the insurance carrier side. What I learned is that clearly neither side knows what the other side deals with on a daily basis. Agents think...
IIABNJ Launches U.S. Veterans Pre-Licensing Program
May 22 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) is launching a new program aimed at supporting the men and women of the armed forces and assisting them in finding post-military careers in the insurance...
Brokerslink Signs Partnership Pact with African Insurer Saham Finances
May 21 2015 // Independent broker network Brokerslink has signed a three year strategic partnership agreement with pan-African insurance group, Saham Finances. The bulletin said the agreement one of the biggest pan-African insurance...
Vertafore’s Answer to Google Compare for Agents
May 20 2015 // Some consumers may be agog over Google Compare, but insurance industry vendors like software provider Vertafore have been working to deliver quotes and ratings more quickly and conveniently for years. That’s the...
Beacon Hill Hires Holcombe as Senior Account Executive in Pennsylvania
May 18 2015 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc., a wholesale insurance broker and program administrator in Charlottesville, Virginia, hired Stephen A. Holcombe as senior account executive to to support the firm’s Northeast territory. He...
Google Dupes Insurance Buyers: Insurance Agent Executive
May 18 2015 // Independent insurance agents are accustomed to competition but many are watching with heightened interest the entry of one new competitor in particular, Google Compare. Bill Wilson, director of the Virtual University at...
Incoming President Ware Talks About Canadian Expansion & Why AAMGA Is More Than MGAs
May 18 2015 // The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) expanded its membership again in 2015 with the addition of eight new organizations, all based in Canada. The Canadian organizations sought to become part of the...
What Risk Managers Expect from Their Insurance Brokers: RIMS
May 18 2015 // A broker who does not fully understand a client’s business or lacks direct links with insurers may not only fall short in advising on coverage, but can cause headaches on all sides of the insurance relationship,...
Offering Value Added Services
May 18 2015 // Insurance producers sell roughly the same product as their competitor. The competitive edge often touted by producers is that their firm “has the best service” or “this policy has broader coverage”...
Agent Support, Ratings Added to Expanding Google Compare
May 18 2015 // The auto insurance comparison website Google Compare is expanding into Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as adding ratings and insurance agent support. That announcement was made on May 5 by Stephanie Cuthbertson,...
An Insurance Agent’s Guide to Finding & Converting Online Leads
May 18 2015 // Modern consumers shop online for everything from groceries to new homes. It only makes sense that they’re looking to the web for insurance polices as well. After all, why would they pick up the phone and call an...
Cyber, Talent, Data Among Game Changers for Insurers
May 18 2015 // Protecting clients against growing and poorly understood risks associated with information technology system failures is a leading concern of the insurance industry today, according to a group of prominent underwriters and...
