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NIF Group, NOVA Casualty Offers New Program for Social Service Agencies
Nov 15 2007 // Manhasset, N.Y.-based NIF Group, Inc., a program administrator and specialty brokerage firm, recently announced that NOVA Casualty will offer a new market for social service agencies. NIF Group will underwrite the program...
Peerless Insurance Returning to Mass. Auto Under Managed Competition
Nov 14 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group today announced that one of its companies – Keene, N.H.-based Peerless Insurance – intends to return to the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market next year after a 20-year...
Lloyd’s Reports on Chinese Market
Nov 13 2007 // Lloyd’s has released a research report on China’s rapidly developing insurance market, which it said “explores the key trends in the Chinese non-life insurance market and the opportunities they present...
Mich. Agents Sign Agreement with SeaPass to Provide Multi-line Quotes
Nov 13 2007 // The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) recently announced that it had signed an agreement to join the SeaPass Multi-Carrier Hub™ platform, as a commercial lines tool for independent agents for real-time...
Carpenter Moore Names Two to E&O Liability Practice
Nov 13 2007 // Carpenter Moore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., announced the addition of two broker-executives to its errors and omission liability practice. Ted Doolittle has been named managing director,...
Insurance Agent Objects to Paying Restitution in Kickback Scheme
Nov 12 2007 // Mississippi Insurance agent Ken Nowlin is objecting to a pre-sentence report that suggests he may have to pay restitution to Lafayette County in a kickback scheme involving the county’s health care coverage. In July,...
Sign Industry Group Open to all Licensed Texas Agents
Nov 12 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that the Texas Sign Association (TSA) purchasing group, TSA Comp Group Inc., is now open group. Qualifying on-premise sign product manufacturers, sign supply distributors and...
La. Citizens Seeks New Broker for Reinsurance Coverage
Nov 12 2007 // Louisiana’s taxpayer-backed property insurance company will seek a new broker for reinsurance coverage because its current broker failed to disclose that it hired a daughter of the insurer’s embattled former...
Looking for Profits at Marsh
Nov 12 2007 // The Marsh & McLennan Companies, or MMC, has seen its once dominant position atop the brokerage world assailed by changing conditions, Eliot Spitzer, more competition and its own internal restructuring. Although MMC...
Agency Ideas Newsletter Introduces New Sales Web Site for Agents
Nov 12 2007 // Cary, N.C.-based Agency Ideas, the publisher of Agency Ideas Newsletter, an independent subscription-only sales and marketing newsletter for property/casualty agents, has introduced ProducerIdeas.com, a membership-only Web...
Eugene, Ore., Agent Arrested
Nov 9 2007 // A Eugene, Ore.-based insurance agent who is the focal suspect in an ongoing investigation by Oregon State Police and the Insurance Division, part of the Department of Consumer & Business Services, was arrested by the...
Houses Passes Federal Disaster Insurance Measure Opposed by Bush
Nov 9 2007 // A day after a similar bill was introduced in the Senate, the House of Representatives passed federal legislation to help hurricane and disaster-prone states make property insurance more readily available to residents...
Hub International Acquires Diversified Risk Insurance Brokers
Nov 8 2007 // Chicago-based Hub International Ltd.’s California subsidiary has acquired FLF Inc. d/b/a Diversified Risk Insurance Brokers Inc. (DRIB), a northern California-based insurance brokerage. DRIB’s operation in...
Hudson Valley N.Y. Agents Honor Main Street America Group’s Scaglione
Nov 8 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. selected Kathleen Scaglione as the Hudson Valley Regional Awareness Program’s Executive of the Year. The award was presented at the fifth-annual Hudson Valley...
PIA’s Branding Program for Insurance Agents Wins Additional Awards
Nov 8 2007 // The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) has selected the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents’ “PIA Branding Program” as a recipient of two awards in its...
Progressive Changes 10,000 Agencies’ Signs
Nov 8 2007 // Progressive Insurance is changing the indoor and outdoor signs at thousands of its agencies across the country to highlight its affiliation with the businsses. Earlier this year, Progressive announced that it was returning...
Florida Insurer Group Elects Coral Gables Agent President
Nov 7 2007 // Professional Insurance Agents of Florida elected Phil Zelman president of the board effective Oct. 1. A member of PIA since 1999, Zelman is vice president and co-owner of NCF Insurance Associates in Coral Gables, Fla., and...
Lassiter-Ware Insurance Licenses QueryPlus
Nov 7 2007 // November 7, 2007 – QualCorp, Inc. signed agreements to license their new QueryPlus Reporting Tool to Lassiter-Ware Insurance. Nancy Burton sees the tremendous benefit and advantage of having the QueryPlus Reporting...
Will Mass. Give Thanks for Managed Competition or Rate It a Turkey?
Nov 7 2007 // Massachusetts has three dates coming up that could be turning points in determining who gives thanks for the state’s new managed competition auto insurance system and who rates it a turkey. Insurance Commissioner...
Hoffman-Henry Insurance Corporation Licenses QueryPlus
Nov 6 2007 // November 6, 2007 – QualCorp, Inc. scores a major victory in helping AMS AFW and AMS 360 customers by placing their QueryPlus Reporting Tool in the office of Hoffman-Henry Insurance Corp. Dennis Edwards sees the...
