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Louisiana Agent Who Pocketed Premiums Gains Fine, Loses License
Jan 22 2009 // A Gretna, La., insurance agent has been issued a cease and desist order, notice of license revocation and fine for misappropriation of premiums and felony theft, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reported. Nancy Marie...
Insurance Brokerage Scanlon, Guerra, Burke Names Schneir Partner
Jan 22 2009 // Justin Schneir has been named a partner in the Woodland Hills, Calif.-based insurance brokerage firm of Scanlon, Guerra, Burke. He has been with SGB since 2003. According to the company, the promotion of Schneir continues...
Abacus Insurance Brokers Offers Online Builder’s Risk Program, Stunt Coverage
Jan 22 2009 // Los Angeles-based Abacus Insurance Brokers Inc., a program has launched an online builder’s risk program, as well as has enhanced its portfolio of production programs to include stunt coverage. Eligible projects in...
U.S. Risk Launches Real Time Quote Application
Jan 21 2009 // Dallas-based managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler, U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has rolled out a new online platform through which agents can rate, quote and bind a policy in minutes. According to the...
Willis HRH Announces New Executive Appointments
Jan 21 2009 // Willis HRH, the North American unit of Willis Group Holdings, announced a series of senior leadership appointments that the company says will drive growth and innovation in key areas of its retail brokerage business. With...
Menegus Joins R.E. Chaix & Associates Insurance Brokers
Jan 20 2009 // R.E.Chaix & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has hired Michael Menegus as a broker in the San Diego office. Menegus began his insurance career with GEICO in 1985 and after 10 years, moved into an underwriting...
North Dakota Yanks Fargo Insurance Agent’s License
Jan 20 2009 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says he’s revoked the license of Bruce Hager, a Fargo insurance agent who pleaded guilty to selling unregistered securities and acting as an unregistered securities...
Fox Elected President of Professional Insurance Agents of Ohio
Jan 20 2009 // The Professional Insurance Agents Association of Ohio, Inc. (PIA) elected Douglas J. Fox, of Perrysburg, president of its board of directors. Fox’s term commenced Jan. 1. Fox is an independent insurance agent, with...
Uy Joins Sullivan Brokers
Jan 16 2009 // Sullivan Brokers Wholesale Insurance Services announced that Alekhine Uy has joined the firm as casualty manager in the company’s Los Angeles office. He is recognized for his brokering expertise in casualty...
New York’s NIF Group Acquires California’s HDR
Jan 16 2009 // Manhasset, New York-based specialty insurance firm NIF Group has acquired HDR Insurance Services of Sacramento, California. HDR specializes in providing innovative programs for independent agents. HDR will continue to...
Group Changes Name to Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois
Jan 15 2009 // The Springfield-based Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois has unveiled a new name. The statewide group will now be known as the Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois (IIA of IL) It has also implemented...
Alabama Arson Suspect Lunceford Faced Foreclosure, Federal Agents Say
Jan 13 2009 // Witnesses testified that businessman and former Auburn University’s punter Tommy Lunceford Jr. was in a dispute with a couple leasing his Gulf Shores (Alabama) restaurant and faced foreclosure when the building...
Eye on Insurance Industry Regulation
Jan 12 2009 // In Financial Turmoil, Agents and the Industry Must Work Together It has been said that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” That also raises the question, what happens to the boat when the tide goes down? The...
Progressive Redesigns Agents’ Only Web Site
Jan 12 2009 // Progressive Insurance redesigned its Progressive Brand Express Web site for independent agents. The updated site – located on Progressive’s agency-dedicated Web site, ForAgentsOnly.com – gives agents...
FBI Reports Drop in Crime Including Arson
Jan 12 2009 // The nation experienced a 3.5 percent decline in violent crime and a 2.5 percent decline in property crime for the first six months of 2008, according to the federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Violent crime was down in...
Massachusetts Agents Want Regulator to Rein in Progressive
Jan 11 2009 // It’s the second time in the seven months Progressive has been selling personal auto insurance online that the company has become a target of agents’ ire. A trade group for Massachusetts insurance agents has...
Independent Agents: State Regulation Big Issue in 2009
Jan 11 2009 // The New Year always brings out great hope for a new beginning, a fresh start and greater resolve for the coming year. But with all the financial and economic turmoil of the second half of 2008, independent agents could...
People
Jan 11 2009 // Markel Corp. has promoted Henry Lopez to executive vice president for the Markel Midwest region. Lopez has been with Markel since 1995 and most recently was the vice president, director of business development for...
People
Jan 11 2009 // National managing general agent Burns & Wilcox has promoted Anthony Cugini to manager of the company’s Houston office. He is responsible for increasing sales across all product lines, including professional...
Summary of New State Laws
Jan 11 2009 // Alaska — Ignition Interlock Devices – HB 19, which took effect Jan. 1, 2009, limits driver’s license privileges relating to the crime of avoidance of ignition interlock devices when a person knowingly...
