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States Gear Up for Stimulus Package
Mar 9 2009 // Impact on Insurance Industry May be Minimal, Experts Say The $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress looms as the largest mountain on the country’s newly changed economic landscape. But despite hope that the...
A Letter to the President
Mar 9 2009 // President Barack Obama recently received the following letter from the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America congratulating him on becoming the 44th President of the United States of America, and...
Changing Demographics Offer a World of Opportunity for Enterprising Agents
Mar 9 2009 // Minorities Destined to Become Majority by Mid-Century Before the 21st century reaches the half-way mark, more than 50 percent of the population of the United States will be represented by a vast cultural mix of people...
The Flood Insurance Coverage Paradox
Mar 9 2009 // You May Not Know What You Think You Know About Flood Insurance Claims When dealing with claims under flood insurance policies, you may be surprised that many things you think you know are wrong, and, particularly for...
People
Mar 9 2009 // San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. announced its management team for the combined insurance businesses of Wells Fargo and Wachovia Corp. Reporting to Dave Zuercher, group head of International and Insurance...
It’s Time to Discuss Flood Insurance
Mar 9 2009 // It’s rainy season, meaning there’s an increased risk for flooding. Since 1996, Oregon and Washington have had 18 federally declared flood disasters due to heavy rains, cresting rivers, backed-up storm drains...
‘Sometimes You Just Have to Ask’
Mar 9 2009 // “You don’t have to be Hispanic to join the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.” George Saenz Sr., founder of Cielo Vista Insurance Agency in El Paso, Texas, made that comment when Insurance Journal spoke to him...
Recession Gives Agents New Opportunity with Car Lovers
Mar 9 2009 // Agents can offer collector-vehicle coverage to customers as a money-saving opportunity that also will provide broader coverage more tailored to a collector’s needs. Last month, firefighters saved a 1964 Ford Mustang...
Finding a Niche
Mar 9 2009 // A Young Company With a Nontraditional Management Style, Heffernan Insurance Brokers Has Shown How an Agency Can Be Young and Successful at the Same Time Top 100 Agency Profile RANKING: No. 11 Agency Name: Heffernan...
One Size Does Not Fit All
Mar 9 2009 // Agents Beware of Coverage Differences in Personal Umbrella Policies A condominium board is involved in a lawsuit that results in a board member being sued. A neighbor’s child is playing in the backyard, falls off a...
Wholesale Insurance Broker USG Promotes Jones in Michigan Office
Mar 6 2009 // USG Insurance Services, Inc, a national wholesale broker of commercial insurance headquartered in Tampa, Fla., has promoted Andy Jones to senior underwriter at its Michigan branch. Jones was a manager for four years with...
Florida Charges People’s Trust MGA Using Unlicensed Insurance Agents
Mar 6 2009 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has moved to prevent People’s Trust Insurance’s Managing General Agent from using unlicensed agents to sell its homeowners insurance. The action follows an...
National Flood Insurance Expected to Get 5 Day Extension Today
Mar 6 2009 // The U.S. Senate delayed action last night on a federal omnibus bill that provides funding to most of the federal government, including the nation’s federal flood insurance program that expires today. However,...
Former Insurance Brokers Sentenced in Louisiana Bribery Scheme
Mar 6 2009 // Two major figures, both former insurance brokers, in a wide ranging investigation into corruption at the Orleans Parish School Board have been sentenced in federal court by U. S. District Judge Martin L. C. Feldman,...
National Flood Insurance Program Gets 5 Day Extension
Mar 6 2009 // The U.S. Senate passed a five-day extension to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by voice vote this afternoon after lawmakers delayed action Thursday night on the federal omnibus bill which would have extended...
AmWINS Acquires 3 Medical Stop Loss Insurance Wholesale Brokers
Mar 5 2009 // Charlotte, North Carolina-based insurance wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired three medical stop loss wholesalers in three separate regions of the country. The firms acquired are American Stop Loss...
Apollo Agencies Names Greenlee Director of Sales
Mar 5 2009 // Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based Apollo Agencies Inc., Kinecta Federal Credit Union’s wholly owned property and casualty subsidiary, announced that John Greenlee has joined the organization as director of...
National Flood Insurance Program Set to Expire Tomorrow
Mar 5 2009 // The U.S. Senate has yet to approve a measure extending the nation’s flood insurance program, which expires tomorrow. While the U.S. House of Representatives passed an extension to the National Flood Insurance Program...
National City Banks Sells 2 Florida Insurance Agencies
Mar 4 2009 // An independent holding company owned by an insurance industry veteran has purchased Harbor Insurance Agency and Florida Consolidated Agency, both former wholly owned subsidiaries of National City Bank. The new owner, Tom...
Griffin Joins Wholesale Broker Gresham in Florida Office
Mar 3 2009 // Stockbridge, Georgia-based wholesale insurance broker Gresham & Associates has welcomed a new property/ casualty broker, Scott Griffin, to its Orlando, Florida branch. Griffin, a University of Georgia-Risk Management...
