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Continuing Education Serves a Positive Purpose
Jan 27 2008 // Continuing education is a fact of life for all agents and brokers. Because states require CE credits, it translates into the reality of a continuous, and often repetitive, obligation — a career-long commitment of time...
How to Fulfill Agent Continuing Education Requirements
Jan 27 2008 // Continuing education (CE) is a fact of life for all agents and brokers. Since states require CE credits, the reality can be a continuous and often repetitive obligation — a career-long commitment of time and attention...
Despite Woes, Biggest Insurance Brokers Still Make the Grade
Jan 27 2008 // Fitch reports leaner and more transparent brokers are better equipped to deal with changing market conditions Taken as a group, the nation’s largest public insurance brokers did better in 2007 than 2006, although the...
Calif. Agents Brace for Rising Workers’ Comp Rates
Jan 27 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving, either for themselves or for their clients, in 2008. The study...
An Insurer’s Success Relies on the Expertise of Its Underwriters
Jan 27 2008 // An insurer’s success rests largely in the expertise of its underwriters. As the U.S. Department of Labor noted in its Career Overview series, “Great trust is placed in underwriters as an insurance company may...
Agents Have Options to Profit as Cycles Turn
Jan 27 2008 // Trust, efficiency, quality, knowledge are among the values independent agents bring to the insurance transaction Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard...
People
Jan 27 2008 // Zurich named Kevin Dunham senior vice president and global relationship leader for the western region of its Global Corporate in North America Business unit. Dunham is based in Glendale, Calif., and will manage accounts...
European Risk Managers, Industry Face New and Not so New Challenges
Jan 27 2008 // FERMA conference highlights growing importance of risk management in complex global business environment The insurance industry’s “traditional model” has become outdated and is so abstruse that the...
Setting and Tracking Goals for Agency Producers
Jan 27 2008 // Every inexperienced agent and seasoned producer is hired with some general production goals in mind. In the first few weeks and months that follow, their managers diligently watch over their new hires, much like they check...
Agents Mind Your Es & Os
Jan 27 2008 // As insurance companies face larger, more frequent catastrophe losses, they are increasingly playing hardball with their insureds. Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes can put pressure on a...
To Thrive and Survive
Jan 27 2008 // E&S brokers seek new ways to grow, prosper in today’s changing market For excess and surplus lines brokers, identifying available insurance markets not sought by the standard market may be the key to surviving...
Brown & Brown Acquire Diversified Insurance Brokerage of Ind.
Jan 25 2008 // J. Scott Penny, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown, Inc. and Kevin Mandrell and William Lantrip, principals of Diversified Insurance Brokerage Group, Inc. of Indianapolis, Ind. recently announced the...
Calif.-based MOC Insurance, Farallon Assoc. Announce Merger
Jan 25 2008 // Van Maroevich, president and CEO of MOC Insurance Services/Maroevich, O’Shea & Coghlan, and Peter Brown and Harry Humphrey of Farallon Associates Insurance Brokers, both based in San Francisco, announced the...
New York Insurance Ad Rules Make for Longer Phone Books
Jan 24 2008 // New York agents looking to spruce up their advertisements better pay attention to the list of insurers they represent. And their insurers’ addresses. That’s because any agent or broker that lists in advertising...
House Passes Flood Insurance Reform Legislation
Jan 24 2008 // The House of Representatives passed H.R. 3959, sponsored by Financial Services Committee Chairman, Barney Frank (D-Mass.), and Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), legislation that would gradually phase-out some of the subsidies...
Calif. Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Some Risky Mortgages
Jan 24 2008 // A California legislator on Wednesday introduced a lending-regulation bill that seeks to mandate the obvious — that people who want to buy a home can actually afford the mortgage, property taxes and insurance. The...
Mass. Insurance Department Launches Agent Finder Web Site
Jan 24 2008 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes today unveiled AgentFinder, a Division of Insurance Web site designed to make it easier for Massachusetts consumers to find insurance agents and insurance products in...
Sharon Haenig Joins Sullivan E&S as Commercial Lines Manager
Jan 23 2008 // January 23 2008 – Orange, CA – G.J. Sullivan Co., a member of Los Angeles-based The Sullivan Group, has appointed Sharon Haenig as Commercial Lines Manager for its office in Orange, CA. Sharon will be...
N.C. Young Agents Raise $70,000 to Fund Habitat for Humanity House
Jan 23 2008 // The Young Agents of North Carolina have raised $70,000 to fund the construction of a Habitat for Humanity house. The Young Agents are partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. During the past year, the...
Ludt Joins Lawson-Hawks Team
Jan 23 2008 // John Miller, chief executive officer of Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates announced the recent addition of Michael Ludt of Irvine, Calif., as a broker for the Healthcare/Medical Malpractice Division for the Mountain...
