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Mass. Insurance Agents Support Managed Competition But Oppose Credit Scoring
Dec 5 2007 // Insurance agents in Massachusetts support the state’s move to managed competition in private passenger auto insurance but oppose insurers’ use of credit scoring in rating or underwriting. In an online Insurance...
Professional Program Insurance Brokerage Enhances Tattoo Program
Dec 5 2007 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage has announced enhancements to its tattoo and body piercing program. Broader property coverage is available including coverage for property of others, property in transit at...
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Dec 4 2007 // Are you having a hard time finding new insurance prospects? Are you tired of spending money on marketing methods that don’t produce leads? If so LeadsClearance.com is a solution to your problem. More and more people...
Banks in Insurance Advance Despite Soft Market, Study Reports
Dec 4 2007 // Despite a soft property and casualty (P/C) insurance market, the top 100 banks in insurance made substantial gains in the past year, says a new report distributed by the Bank Insurance & Securities Association The...
Heffernan Insurance Brokers Hires Cox as Director of Wellness
Dec 3 2007 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers based in San Raphael, Calif., has appointed of Adam Cox as director of wellness, to implement a fitness and wellness program for all employees. In this role, Cox will be charged with...
How Mass. Agents Feel About Managed Competition, Credit Scoring
Dec 2 2007 // Insurance agents in Massachusetts support the state’s move to managed competition in private passenger auto insurance but oppose insurers’ use of credit scoring in rating or underwriting. They are expecting a...
Five Trends for Agents to Track
Dec 2 2007 // In a poem written 2,000 years ago by Horace, he used the phrase “carpe diem,” which is commonly translated as “seize the day.” Although interpretations of this phrase vary, one interpretation can...
Communication is Key When Managing Program Contracts
Dec 2 2007 // The insurance industry survives on relationships built between agents and carriers. The two parties can strive for a harmonious partnership with few problems. Yet when communications break down and there are disagreements,...
Deregulation Pushing Banks Into Insurance Industry
Dec 2 2007 // As the financial services industry has evolved since deregulation, there has been a rise in “bancassurance: the joint effort of banks and insurers to provide insurance services to the bank’s customer...
Declarations
Dec 2 2007 // On Agents and Brokers “Let me be clear about how I feel about agents and brokers. The agents and brokers are in the trenches every day, fighting for consumers. They’re the ones that have to deal with the...
People
Dec 2 2007 // Kyle Stevens was elected president and CEO of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers based in Pasadena, Calif. Stevens was promoted to chief operating officer in 2005 and was charged with overseeing all offices of the...
From Insurance Consumer to Commissioner
Dec 2 2007 // While the position of California Insurance Commissioner is elected and there are already rumblings that he’d make a good gubernatorial candidate in 2010, current California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner says...
When Selling Their Business, Brokerage Owners Should Not Go Bare
Dec 2 2007 // How hiring an investment banker who specializes in agency mergers can maximize value for a seller Only the most naive person would say it is not necessary to hire an attorney for a civil litigation. It is that same...
FBI Targets Miss. Lawyer Known for Handling Katrina Insurance Claims
Nov 29 2007 // FBI agents who searched the law offices of Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs on Tuesday left with copies of the office’s computer hard drives, a lawyer for the firm said Wednesday. Joey...
Laufer Hired as Senior Broker for Compass Insurance Group of Agencies
Nov 29 2007 // Chatsworth, Calif.-based Compass Insurance Group of Agencies has hired Paul D. Laufer as senior broker to spearhead the growth of Compass Insurance Group of Agencies. Over the past five years, Laufer was with a local...
Colemont Adds Broker in Chicago Office
Nov 27 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers recently promoted Matt Carpenter to broker in the company’s Chicago office. “Matt has performed exceptionally well for us already,” said Tom Dillon, president of...
Colemont Atlanta Names Assistant Vice President and Broker
Nov 27 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers appointed Matt Baxter to the position of assistant vice president and broker for Colemont-Atlanta. Baxter joined Colemont in 2004. Previous to joining Colemont, he worked for three years as an...
Texas Agent Sentenced for Perjury in Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 27 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that an independent licensed insurance agent pled no contest to a charge of perjury in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case. A Travis County district court sentenced...
Ky. Grand Jury Indicts Insurance Agent on Fraud Charges
Nov 27 2007 // A former Kentucky insurance agent has been indicted on fraud charges after allegedly forging signatures on 114 disability insurance applications. According to court documents, Ray W. Kennedy, 46, of Owensboro, Ky.,...
Agents Alliance Collecting Toys for Holiday Toy Drive
Nov 27 2007 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers based in Sacramento, Calif., will be collecting toys throughout the state to assist Infinity Insurance’s “Infinity Cares” seventh annual holiday toy...
