Latest Agencies Headlines
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Will Gay Marriage Bring Marketing Opportunities for Agents?
Mar 7 2010 // In business, change brings opportunity. And when it comes to the wave of states that have recently legalized gay marriage, some see a marketing opportunity in selling insurance products for same-sex couples. And why not?...
Agency Innovators: How Agencies Leverage Social Networking
Mar 7 2010 // Technology Trailblazers Build Relationships, Business Receipts There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and...
Beta Testing
Mar 7 2010 // I’m not sure what to do.” One of the primary reasons why insurance agents don’t jump into the world of social media — such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the myriad other...
IRS, States Target Employer Abuse of Classification of Independent Contractors
Mar 7 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, the Associated Press has...
State of Challenge: How Florida’s Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 7 2010 // Interview with FSLA President Bruce Bowers Weak Economy, Insureds Going Bare, Hungry Admitted Markets and Citizens’ Low Rates Test Agents Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker...
Bring Back the New York … or Florida … Insurance Exchange?
Mar 7 2010 // New York regulators are pursuing a reincarnation of the New York Insurance Exchange, a Lloyd’s of London-style insurance market, which lasted for several years the last time it was tried. Insurance Superintendent...
Aon Founder Comes Out of Retirement to Launch Global Wholesaler
Mar 7 2010 // The founder and retired chairman and CEO of the world’s largest insurance broker, Aon, has revealed the management team and a second subsidiary for his new global specialty insurance operation whose first company was...
Beta Testing
Mar 7 2010 // I’m not sure what to do.” One of the primary reasons why insurance agents don’t jump into the world of social media — such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the myriad other...
Insurance Agents Fined for Not Having Written Security Plans
Mar 7 2010 // Recent headlines underscore the importance of agents having written security plans to protect the privacy of their clients’ personal information. In the first case, the Virginia Bureau of Insurance fined an agent...
IRS, States Target Employer Abuse of Classification of Independent Contractors
Mar 7 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
Agency Innovators: How Agencies Leverage Social Networking
Mar 7 2010 // Technology Trailblazers Build Relationships, Business Receipts There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and...
Simplified Generational Marketing for Small Agencies
Mar 7 2010 // Targeting the Needs of the Past, Present and Future Virtually every insurance marketing expert proclaims that to sell policies to each new generation, you must approach them differently than their predecessors. And of...
Experience and Specialization Matters When It Comes to Complex Hospitality Insurance
Mar 7 2010 // In my view, along with a good banker, lawyer, accountant and doctor, the next trusted person for business and personal matters that one should have a long term relationship with is an insurance agent. As a business grows...
Taxes and Insurance Agencies
Mar 7 2010 // Strategies to Take for 2010 and Beyond We are all familiar with the old saying “The only thing certain are death and taxes.” From where we stand right now in 2010 it is clear that we will be taxed, however, at...
Large Brokers Freed to Go After Contingent Commissions But Will They?
Mar 7 2010 // The nation’s largest insurance brokers have received the go-ahead to begin accepting contingent commissions again – but two of them say they won’t do it. Officials in New York, Illinois and Connecticut...
New York Agent Charged with Stealing Premiums
Mar 5 2010 // A New York state insurance agent has been charged for allegedly stealing $15,400 in premiums. State police arrested Emil Feduniec, of Tuckahoe, after an investigation by the New York State Insurance Department’s...
Mississippi Insurance Agent Tubertini Honored by Association
Mar 5 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (the Big “I”) has awarded Mississippi insurance agent Ronnie Tubertini with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its...
Security Breach Notification Laws Reinforce Need for Cyber Insurance
Mar 4 2010 // With more than 40 states now enforcing privacy and security breach notification laws, underwriters are working hard to scoop up the business this niche creates, while also tweaking their policy forms to provide the...
Insurance Agents Name ‘Blue Dog’ U.S. Rep. Ross of Arkansas Top Legislator
Mar 4 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) has recognized Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), a former independent insurance agent, as its Legislator of the Year for 2009. The award was...
National Producer Licensing Reform Bill Passes House
Mar 4 2010 // Federal legislation designed to streamline non-resident insurance agent and broker licensing passed the U.S. House of Representatives. H.R. 2554, the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of...
