Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Navigators Introduces Coverage for Securities Brokers/Dealers
Nov 6 2007 // Navigators Pro, a division of Navigators Management Company, has introduced the Broker InNAVation Securities Broker/Dealer Professional Liability policy. The Broker InNAVation policy provides coverage for securities...
Insurors of Tennessee Names Hoover Young Agent of the Year
Nov 6 2007 // At a ceremony that took place at The Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tennessee, Insurors of Tennessee recognized Chip Hoover as the Arch E. Northington Young Agent of the Year . Hoover is principal agent of AGA Hoover...
Ohio Casualty Honored by Technology Company, ASCnet
Nov 5 2007 // Ohio Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced that it was recently honored with three awards from Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group for Applied Systems agency management technology, in...
Mass. Offers Online Licensing with Agent Lookup Feature for Consumers
Nov 5 2007 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently launched a new online licensing system for producers. The first phase of the system, OLLIE (Online Licensing of Individuals and Entities), enables individual insurance...
Ohio Announces Changes to Agent Continuing Education Process
Nov 5 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that it will no longer require Continuing Education (CE) providers to collect an agent’s Social Security Number (SSN) starting Jan. 1, 2008. The Department said...
