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Leadership and Sales Culture in Insurance Agencies
Mar 2 2010 // Leadership is lightning in a bottle. There are as many definitions for it as there are leaders. Any rules that could be agreed upon as to what constitutes leadership could be quickly contradicted by an example of an...
USG Promotes Lee to Brokerage Manager in Louisiana
Mar 2 2010 // National wholesale commercial insurance broker, USG Insurance Services Inc., has promoted Gina Lee to brokerage manager in the company’s Louisiana office. Lee joined USG in August 2006 as a senior underwriter and...
America First Launches Online Learning Center for Appointed Agents
Mar 2 2010 // America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Richardson, Texas, has introduced an online Agent Learning Center for its appointed agencies. First American appointed agents can...
Social Service Organizations in Tough Economic Times
Mar 2 2010 // It’s no secret that nonprofits are feeling the effects of a battered economy. Donations are down. State and federal funding are also down. Insurance providers say they are keeping a close watch on changing exposures...
Flood Insurance Program Closed; No Policies Until Senate Votes
Mar 1 2010 // The Senate last week failed to vote on bills to extend several federal programs including jobless benefits, COBRA subsidies, transportation project funding and flood insurance before these programs expired Feb. 28. A...
U.S. Senator Presses Agencies for Information About Illinois Levees
Mar 1 2010 // U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin wants a meeting with two federal agencies to seek information about efforts to certify five levee systems in three southwestern Illinois counties. Durbin and other overseers of the levees in Madison,...
Agents Urged to Tell Insureds of Flood Program Lapse
Mar 1 2010 // Insurance agents with customers waiting to be covered in the federal flood insurance program should tell those customers about the program’s suspension, an insurance expert is advising. As reported by Insurance...
Will Gay Marriage Bring New Marketing Opportunities for Agents?
Feb 26 2010 // In business, change brings opportunity. And when it comes to states that have recently legalized gay marriage, some see a marketing opportunity in selling insurance products for wedded gay couples. The “gay...
Evergreen Insurance Managers Acquires Certain Intercontinental Insurance Accounts
Feb 25 2010 // Evergreen Insurance Managers Inc. of Beaverton, Ore., announced the purchase of a Penn-America Insurance Co., Penn-Star Insurance Co., United National Insurance Co. book of business, and certain brokerage accounts from...
North Dakota Commissioner Revokes Insurance Agent’s License
Feb 25 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has revoked the license of a Stutsman County insurance agent. Hamm says Kyle Cuypers failed to disclose criminal convictions on his insurance producer license application last...
Insurance Agent to Run for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Post
Feb 25 2010 // A Tulsa, Okla.-area insurance agent says he plans to run for state insurance commissioner this fall. Republican John Doak said he plans to mount a statewide campaign for the job now held by Insurance Commissioner Kim...
Texas Agent Named ACSR of the Year
Feb 25 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) announced that Patricia Ann Daniel of Extraco Insurance in Waco, Texas, has been named Accredited Customer Service Representative (ACSR) of...
Big ‘I’ Agents Gain Access to Engineering Firms’ Insurance Program
Feb 24 2010 // The Independent Agents & Brokers of America Big “I” Markets program announced a partnership with the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) to provide Big “I” members with exclusive...
New Jersey Insurance Agent Indicted for Stealing $300K in Premiums
Feb 24 2010 // The former CEO of a now-defunct insurance agency in New Jersey has been indicted for stealing over $300,000 in commercial insurance premiums. Richard Pisacane, former head of Bayonne-based Northern Financial Group, has...
Florida Property Insurance: Northern Capital Loses Rating; HomeWise Consolidates
Feb 24 2010 // One fast-growing Florida homeowner insurer has had its rating pulled by its rating agency and reportedly halted new business while another domestic carrier is consolidating its business into one company from two. Northern...
Aon Founder Ryan Launches Specialty Wholesale Insurance Group
Feb 23 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...
Rating Agencies React to Fairfax Zenith Deal; See No Ratings Change
Feb 22 2010 // Neither Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services nor A.M. Best are currently expecting to change their ratings on Zenith National Insurance Corp or on Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings, following the...
Connecticut Insurance Agent Faces Sentencing for Fraud
Feb 22 2010 // A Waterbury businessman faces sentencing for ripping off clients of more than $1.3 million, which he used to gamble at Connecticut’s casinos. Thomas Cipriano has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering. The...
California Regulator Considering Regs to Alleviate Underinsurance
Feb 22 2010 // The California Department of Insurance is considering proposing new regulations governing standards and training for estimating replacement value on homeowners’ insurance. Among the ideas that was floated at a recent...
Trusted Choice
Feb 21 2010 // Just when producers thought it was safe, mandatory compensation disclosure has reared its ugly head again. In a move that has its origins in the Spitzer days, New York regulators are mandating that insurance agents and...
