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Agents Can Help Fight Insurance Fraud
Jun 15 2009 // Insurance agents can play a big role in helping states to fight insurance fraud. And with insurance fraud costing California alone $15 billion each year, or $500 per resident, the cost of which is eventually passed onto...
Take Advantage of Bad Times by Hiring a Marketing Major
Jun 15 2009 // Enhance Your Survival by Finding Light Within the Darkness The economic landscape is mired in darkness. Bankruptcies and foreclosures have risen to frightening levels, while the stock market languishes in despair. The high...
Managing an Agency in a Troubled Economy
Jun 15 2009 // InsurBanc’s Pettinicchi on Agency Financing Options Unlike many businesses, independent insurance agencies do not need to access credit on a daily basis. But when the time comes that an independent agency needs...
Social Networking for Fun and Profit
Jun 15 2009 // Why Agents Should Use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to Build their Brand Whether it’s used to market new insurance products or interface with current clients, social media is transforming the insurance industry...
The Globalized Broker Network
Jun 15 2009 // Assurex Global Struck Gold with Partners Around the World Assurex Global Year Founded: 1954 Locations: 500 offices on six continents Employees: 20,000 Annual Premium Volume: $28 billion Annual Revenue: $3.4 billion Assurex...
Monterey Insurance, John O. Bronson Co. Merge
Jun 12 2009 // Monterey Insurance Agencies of Monterey, Calif., has merged with John. O. Bronson Company, an independent insurance agency founded in 1888. The Monterey Insurance Agencies is a member of Trusted Choice, a national...
Those Wary of Health Insurance Reform May Have Ally in Physicians
Jun 12 2009 // President Barak Obama takes his case for reform of the nation’s health insurance system to the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physicians group, on June 15. While the AMA says it is honored...
Kansas Agent a Challenger in Insurance Commissioner Race
Jun 11 2009 // The owner of a south-central Kansas insurance agency has announced plans to kick off a campaign for insurance commissioner. David Powell of David J. Powell & Associates LLC in El Dorado is seeking the Republican...
Maples, Arcara, Lottridge Join Denver Insurance Broker Lockton
Jun 10 2009 // The Denver office of Lockton Companies LLC, a privately owned independent insurance brokerage, announced that Jason Maples, Frank Arcara and Ron Lottridge will be joining the firm. Maples, the founder and managing partner...
Liberty Northwest Drops Workers’ Comp Direct Sales for Independent Agents
Jun 10 2009 // Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit announced that one of its member companies, Liberty Northwest, has sold the renewal rights for most of its direct-sold workers’ compensation policies written...
Nautilus Insurance Group Receives Awards from the American Association of Managing General Agents
Jun 9 2009 // Scottsdale, Ariz. – June 9, 2009 – Nautilus Insurance Group, comprised of Nautilus Insurance Company (“Nautilus”) and Great Divide Insurance Company (“Great Divide”), member companies of...
Insurance Brokers Plan ‘Fly-In’ to Lobby on Health Care Reform
Jun 9 2009 // Five insurance producer associations are planning a joint lobbying effort next month on health care reform in the nation’s capital. The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”),...
Illinois-based Associated Agencies Announces New Hires
Jun 9 2009 // Associated Agencies Inc., a full-service insurance brokerage firm based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., reports that the company is growing and that it recently added a number of new staff members. Craig A. Kanter has been hired...
Williams Joins Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers in Dallas
Jun 9 2009 // Kyle Stevens, president/CEO of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. (WSS), announced that Karen G. Williams has joined the firm as contract underwriter in the Dallas office. She will report to Judy Hall, vice...
Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Expands Personal Lines Group
Jun 8 2009 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has added Gregg Carpenter as senior vice president and David Beeton as an account executive to its Preferred Client Insurance Services Group (PCS)...
Top 100 Final Call: Last Day to Submit Your Agency
Jun 8 2009 // Insurance Journal is on the search for the nation’s leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. And...
Crist Veto of Condo Insurance Bill Disappoints Unit Owners, Agents
Jun 8 2009 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s veto of a condo insurance bill has disappointed condo unit owners and insurance agents who must comply with what they say is a costly and confusing existing law that would have been...
Wright and Catron Join Wholesale Broker Towerstone in Dallas
Jun 5 2009 // Texas-based wholesale insurance broker Towerstone announced two additions to its staff in Dallas. Brent Wright joined Towerstone as a senior broker/underwriter. Wright has been involved in the insurance arena since 1999....
Texas GOP Vows to Keep Insurance, Transportation Departments Open
Jun 5 2009 // Republican leaders in the Texas Legislature have promised that insurance regulation, roadbuilding and other government functions will continue in Texas despite lawmakers’ failure to pass a measure preserving the...
Nevada, Colorado Insurance Agents, Brokers: Beware of Scam
Jun 4 2009 // Licensed insurance agents and brokers in California, Colorado and Nevada are being warned to beware of a scam targeting them. The Nevada Division of Insurance, California Department of Insurance and Colorado Division of...
