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Beecher Carlson: Energized for Growth
Apr 7 2008 // Atlanta-based broker just keeps going and going while striving to maintain service excellence The “Energizer Bunny” of property/casualty insurance brokerages worldwide — that seems an apt description for...
Strategies for Agents in a Recession
Apr 7 2008 // Despite soft market conditions and a downturn in the economy, it’s still a good time to be an agent, says Leonard Brevik, president and CEO of National Association of Professional Insurance Agents. “There are a...
Industry Lines Up ‘Pro and Con’ on Bush Plan for Federal Regulator
Apr 7 2008 // Insurance industry groups lined up quickly with responses to the Bush administration’s proposed overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industries, including insurance. The...
During a Recession, Agents Tend to Fare Better Than Their Customers
Apr 7 2008 // Agents writing residential contractors feel recession first; manufacturing, retail segments follow Main Street independent insurance agents could take a bigger hit than their larger counterparts as an economic recession...
What America’s Young Insurance Agents Like Most About Being Agents
Apr 4 2008 // According to a new Insurance Journal survey, among the many things America’s young independent insurance agents like about their jobs is the money. Forty-three percent pull in between $51,000 and $100,000 a year,...
Long Island Agent Wins Award from National Trade Group
Apr 4 2008 // Vincent A. Alba, vice president of MRW Group Inc. in Huntington, New York, has been given the Barney Burns Award by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America. The award recognizes the insurance agent or...
RLI Opens Its Small Fleet Trucking Insurance to More Agents
Apr 3 2008 // RLI Transportation, a division of RLI Insurance Co., announced the expansion of its small fleet trucking program to include new retail agents. The program had previously been limited to existing, appointed agents. The...
San Francisco’s Worldwide Facilities Names VP, Broker
Apr 2 2008 // Worldwide Facilities has named Greg Kuchar vice president of the company’s San Francisco office. Kuchar most recently was with Risk Placement Services (RPS) in Orange, Calif., where he spent the past four years as...
Burns & Wilcox Adds Broker in San Francisco
Apr 2 2008 // Burns & Wilcox has named Denise DiPietro vice president/California brokerage in the company’s San Francisco office. Her specialty is general liability and contractors coverage, but she will be responsible for...
Connecticut Anti-steering Bill Heads to Full Vote
Apr 2 2008 // A Connecticut bill that restricts auto insurers from directing clients to certain car repair shops – legislation opposed by insurers and agents alike – is headed for a floor vote in the state’s General...
American E&S Acquires Network E&S’ Brokerage Business
Apr 1 2008 // American E&S Insurance Brokers of San Francisco has acquired Network E&S’ brokerage book of business. Network E&S, a California-based wholesale broker, has agreed to sell the renewal rights of its...
No April Fool’s Prank: Mass. Drivers Really Can Shop Around Starting Today
Apr 1 2008 // Today — April Fool’s Day — is the day when competitive rating in the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market becomes real. No kidding. For the first time in more than three decades, the state is...
Disaster Derivatives Set to Grow in 2008
Apr 1 2008 // With the United States bracing for big hurricanes this year, new derivatives to trade catastrophe risks offer insurers the extra protection they crave against multi-billion-dollar storms. Trading of “catastrophe...
Some U.S. Homes Now Worth Less Than Their Copper Pipes
Apr 1 2008 // Shards of broken glass outside the basement window of 31 Vine Street (Brockton, Mass.) hint at the destruction inside the three-story home. Thieves smashed the window to break in and then gutted the property for its copper...
Procedures for Depopulating La. Citizens Property Ins. Corp. Unveiled
Apr 1 2008 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued procedures for the first round of depopulation of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (LCPIC). The procedures were established at a meeting on March 14, 2008....
Industry Lines Up ‘Pro and Con’ on Bush Plan for Federal Insurance Regulator
Mar 31 2008 // Insurance industry groups are lining up quickly with responses to the Bush administration’s proposed overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industries, including...
California Assembly Considering Insurance Agent-Broker Bill
Mar 31 2008 // A bill that would help to clarify when an insurance professional is acting in the capacity of a broker versus an agent in California is scheduled come before the state Assembly Insurance Committee no later than April 16,...
American E&S Appoints Broker in San Diego
Mar 31 2008 // Marjie Amick, a 24-year industry veteran, will join American E&S Insurance Brokers’ Carlsbad, Calif., branch. Most recently, Amick was with Monarch E&S Insurance Brokers in San Diego. Her book of business...
North Carolina Insurance Agent Ordered to Hide his Fire Truck
Mar 31 2008 // State Farm insurance agent Darin Morton has had a fully functioning fire truck parked in front of his office in the Charlotte, N.C. suburb of Pineville for six years. But The Charlotte Observer reports that...
Chartwell Adds E&S Casualty Division to Arizona Office
Mar 27 2008 // Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC, a wholesale and specialty insurance broker focusing on high-risk, hard-to-place coverage, announced that it has added an Excess & Surplus (E&S) Casualty Division to...
