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Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
More than just business
Mar 26 2007 // After spending most of her childhood and adolescent years growing up in foster care agencies, Rhonda Sciortino, a California independent insurance agent, felt she had to give back in the best way she knew how. In 1989,...
Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
People
Mar 26 2007 // Willis Group Holdings Ltd. amended the employment agreement with Chairman and CEO Joseph J. Plumeri to extend the term for an additional year. The employment agreement, which was scheduled to expire Oct. 15, 2008, will now...
Life Brokerage Association Exec Resigns
Mar 23 2007 // The National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (NAILBA) announced today that it has accepted the resignation of Executive Vice President Joseph M. Normandy. NAILBA has appointed an executive search...
TriSure’s Folger Named President-Elect of N.C. Agents Group
Mar 23 2007 // R. Cleve Folger, a founding partner at TriSure Corp., was named president elect of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina. Folger will assume his duties at the association’s annual convention in...
Conn. Agents Cite OneBeacon’s Evans as Company Pro of Year
Mar 21 2007 // Ken Evans, territory manager for OneBeacon Small Business in Canton, Mass., has been named this year’s recipient of the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Company Professional of the Year...
Wilson Heads Conn. Agents’ Group
Mar 20 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. elected officers during the association’s annual convention last week at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. Following are the new officers who will...
Conn. Agents Honor DiMatteo as Agent of Year
Mar 20 2007 // Victoria DiMatteo, co-owner of A.A. DiMatteo Insurance Service Center in Shelton, Conn., received the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Professional Agent of the Year award last week during the...
Calif.’s Agents Alliance Moves Board to Sacramento
Mar 20 2007 // The Board of Directors of the Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has moved its headquarters to Sacramento, Calif. “Sacramento is where all the key players in the political and regulatory arena are based,”...
Qualcorp, Inc. unveils QueryPlus reporting tool for AFW & 360 Agency Management Systems at National AMS User Conference
Mar 19 2007 // QualCorp, Inc announced today that they will be showing their new agency reporting tool, QueryPlus AFW/360, in Orlando Florida at the AMS National User Conference on March 21-25, 2007. QueryPlus makes the on-going chore of...
W. Va. Hosting Workers Comp Training Sessions
Mar 17 2007 // The Offices of the Insurance Commissioner of West Virginia in cooperation with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), will hold training sessions around the state on development of workers’...
Dallas Agents Group Names Kull as Executive Director
Mar 15 2007 // The Board of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas (IIAD) announced that Carol Kull has joined the association as executive director. Kull comes to the IIAD from the Home Builder’s Association of Livingston...
Bay Area Man Sentenced for Selling Fake Policies
Mar 15 2007 // A former insurance broker/agent has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the sale of approximately $6 million worth of fake insurance policies the broker falsely claimed were underwritten by Lloyd’s of London,...
Ill. Agents Host Annual Industry Legislative Day March 20
Mar 14 2007 // The Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois (PIIAI), in conjunction with the Illinois Insurance Association (IIA), Illinois Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (IAIFA), Illinois State Association...
Big ‘I’ Makes Changes to Federal Affairs Staff
Mar 14 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) has hired Jason Spence as its new assistant vice president for federal government affairs, effective March 12. Spence comes to the Big...
Agents and Brokers: Extended Deadline to Submit for IJ’s Top 100, March 21
Mar 14 2007 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top independent insurance agencies and brokerages is winding down with just a couple of days left for qualified firms to send in their entry forms. The exteneded...
Poolman Backs Uniform Licensing, Contingent Commissions
Mar 12 2007 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman believes that creating a uniform producer licensing system is a top priority, not just for North Dakota, but for every state. “We’ve worked hand in glove with our...
Study: High Disability Retirement in LA County Safety Agencies
Mar 12 2007 // Employees of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s and fire departments retire on disability pensions at a nearly 50 percent higher rate than their counterparts in 19 other California counties, according to a report by a...
Editor’s Note: Bonus round
Mar 12 2007 // Last November, then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer notified four insurance companies that they could no longer pay contingent commissions to agents and brokers who sell automobile, homeowners and certain other...
