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Virginia Insurance Agents Create Employment Services Firm
Jul 10 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (the Big “I”) has created an employment services firm – Agent’s Choice Staffing Services, Inc. – which is designed to specifically serve the...
Crump Insurance Services Hires Eastman as Associate Broker
Jul 10 2008 // Tara Eastman has joined Crump Insurance Services Inc.’s Dallas office as associate broker on Matthew Sheehan’s professional liability team. In this position Eastman will manage professional liability and...
Strengths and Weaknesses, Part 2: What Agents Think of Regional, National P/C Insurers
Jul 10 2008 // Regional carriers come out on top in agency compensation and claims services, while nationals outscore regionals on loss control and technology. That’s according to an Insurance Journal weeklong survey in June on...
Philadelphia Insurance Broad Form Has Adoption Agencies Covered
Jul 10 2008 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies has a new insurance product for adoption agencies with what it says is one of the broadest coverage forms in the market. PHLY’s new adoption agencies’ product offers...
House Subcommittee Moves Key Federal Insurance Regulation Bills
Jul 10 2008 // In a big week for insurance lobbyists, a key House subcommittee advanced three major insurance regulatory measures. The U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored...
Growing Your Insurance Agency Just Got A Lot Easier with InsuranceLeadz.com
Jul 10 2008 // As an insurance agency you know how important your existing customers are but for your business to grow and prosper new business is extremely important. It doesn’t matter whether you are selling home insurance, auto...
New Jersey Agents Applaud Broker Duty of Care Ruling in Hull Suit
Jul 9 2008 // Agents’ trade groups in New Jersey are praising a recent Garden State court decision that limits an agent’s duty of care when a client misrepresents himself. The ruling stems from a suit brought by Harbor...
InsuranceLeadz.com and Middle Cross Software Partner to Launch New Service Called Typhoon
Jul 9 2008 // InsuranceLeadz.com would like to announce its partnership of Middle Cross Software to launch their new Quote Burst Typhoon service line for Allstate insurance agents. This new service will allow Allstate insurance agents...
Costs, Confusion Keep Flood Insurance Numbers Low in Iowa
Jul 9 2008 // A combination of costs and confusion keeps many Iowans from buying federal flood insurance. Only about 1 percent of Iowans owned flood insurance when last month’s record flooding struck. More than 4,000 homes in...
Motorists Mutual Provides New Guide to Agent Planning
Jul 9 2008 // Columbus, Ohio-based Motorists Mutual Insurance Company recently announced that it is offering a new program to help its more than 4,000 independent agents “plan” for success. The company is providing its...
Pennsylvania Bans Lenders from Requiring Excess Home Insurance
Jul 8 2008 // Pennsylvania homeowners may be entitled to a reduction in their homeowners’ insurance premiums, thanks to The Mortgage Property Insurance Coverage Act that Gov. Rendell signed into law on July 4. The law, which was...
E&S Broker TAPCO Expands to Serve Delaware, New Jersey Retail Agents
Jul 8 2008 // TAPCO Underwriters, Inc., a Burlington, North Carolina-based excess and surplus lines managing general agency, is now offering its products and proprietary quoting and binding process to retail agents in Delaware and New...
Bunker Hill, Shel-Ray Underwriters Founders Retiring; Agencies to Merge
Jul 8 2008 // Ray L. Thomas and Sheldon I. Oster, founders of Houston-based Bunker Hill Insurance Agency Inc. and Shel-Ray Underwriters Inc., are retiring. L. Byron Way, currently executive vice president of Bunker Hill, has been named...
Insential Appoints VP/Brokers in Northeast, Southeast, Midwest
Jul 8 2008 // North Texas-based national wholesale insurance brokerage Insential Inc. has named new vice president/brokers for its operations in the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest regions. Angela Needham was appointed vice...
NSM Adds New Agents, Accountants Professional Liability Programs
Jul 7 2008 // NSM Insurance Group, based in Conshohocken, Pa., has acquired a new specialty underwriting group focused on professional liability coverage targeting property and casualty insurance agencies. This new group will include...
Contingent Commissions Legal, N.Y. Court Rules
Jul 7 2008 // In a twist to a scandal that has rocked the insurance industry over the last several years, a New York appeals court has ruled that contingent commissions paid out by Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group Inc. are not...
A Candle Burnes at Both Ends
Jul 7 2008 // Free-market advocates and some agents applauded last year when Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes quickly moved to deregulate the Bay State’s backwards-but-long-established system of personal auto...
People
Jul 7 2008 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has announced the promotion of Mike Becker to director of federal affairs. Since joining PIA, Becker has managed the day-to-day responsibilities associated...
When In Rome, Do As the Romans
Jul 7 2008 // Hint: Learn Before You Go The ancient expression “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” is used to warn friends and colleagues to respect and adapt to the culture of places that they visit. In the insurance...
Winning as a Strategist
Jul 7 2008 // Thinking Strategically Can Lead to Insurance Sales Success Want to be a better insurance agent or broker? Then consider your strategy. Today’s sales professionals must be at the top of their game to win sales through...
