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Agents can score with varied sports and entertainment industry
Jan 28 2007 // The leisure industry is big business, and insuring the wide variety of sports and entertainment activities and venues is an equally large opportunity. From rock-climbing walls and inflatables on-call for children’s...
8 N.Y.’s Interboro Mutual’s back in
Jan 28 2007 // Long Island insurer reborn as stock insurer 8 Delaware agents groups to merge Group will be both Big ‘I’ and PIA 8 Mass. Diocese gives files to insurers Insurers may review handling of abuse cases 10 Royal...
Under new rules, bytes of electronically stored info could have big bite
Jan 28 2007 // Insurance agents want to avoid litigation, but it is not always possible. When they become involved in litigation in federal court, it is important for agents and their attorneys to understand the new Federal Rules of...
AAMGA Leaders Conclude ‘Fact-Finding’ London Trip
Jan 26 2007 // Insurance may be local, but it doesn’t have to be handled exclusively in the state, or even the country, where it’s needed. For the surplus lines market that means Lloyd’s, which explains the annual visit...
Marsh Granted First ‘Wholly-Owned’ License in China
Jan 26 2007 // Marsh announced it has been awarded China’s first ever Wholly-Owned Foreign Enterprise (WOFE) insurance broking license. The bulletin said the “new license provisions, subject to tax and regulatory approvals,...
Higginbotham & Assoc. Adds Reedy as P/C Broker in Austin Office
Jan 26 2007 // Texas-based Higginbotham & Associates announced it hired commercial property and casualty broker Ben Reedy, an Indiana transfer, as account executive in its Austin office. Reedy was most recently a top three producer...
Court Reverses $20 Million Jury Award to Ex-State Farm Agents
Jan 25 2007 // The Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday threw out a $20 million jury award to five former State Farm Insurance agents who claimed they were improperly terminated for criticizing the company’s treatment of...
Ohio State Auto Adds New System to Benefit Agent Force
Jan 25 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Cos. have eliminated an automation roadblock for independent State Auto agencies using Applied Systems agency management systems. State Auto has implemented IVANS Transformation...
Calls Link Agents with Dubious Medicare Sales Practices in Ark.
Jan 25 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman has expressed concern upon hearing reports of questionable practices by insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans in the southwest area of the state. Calls...
Montgomery and Maynard Join RISC’s Brokerage Department
Jan 25 2007 // Dallas-based RISC announced that Sam Maynard and Cathy Montgomery have joined its Brokerage Department as vice presidents specializing in Casualty and Property respectively. Maynard began his insurance career with...
E.L.M. Insurance Brokers Forms Partnership, Launches Web Site
Jan 25 2007 // Executive Liability Managers Insurance Brokers (E.L.M.), based in El Segundo, Calif., has launched a new Web site available at www.e-o.com or e-insurebynet.com, to improve the application and binding process for...
Survey: Commercial Prices Continue Declining in Non-Catastrophe Areas
Jan 24 2007 // Commercial insurance premiums continued their decline in all but catastrophe-exposed areas during the fourth quarter of 2006, with insurers willing to lower prices and place fewer restrictions on coverage to get new...
USG Promotes Dodd at Texas Branch
Jan 19 2007 // USG Insurance Services Inc, a national broker of commercial insurance headquartered in Tampa, Fla., announced that Joanne Dodd has been promoted to brokerage manager for its Arlington, Texas, branch. Dodd has been an...
Higginbotham & Associates Names Two Managing Directors
Jan 18 2007 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance agency Higginbotham & Associates named brokers Tami Rodgers and Scott Shapard to its managing director team for 2007. Higginbotham appoints its brokers to managing directors who...
Former Mich. Legislator Joins Agent Association as Vice President
Jan 17 2007 // Former State Representative Scott Hummel of DeWitt, Mich. has been named vice president of Governmental Affairs for the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents. Hummel was first elected to the 93rd District of the House...
Booth of Allianz Chairs ACORD
Jan 17 2007 // Clem Booth, a member of the management board of Allianz, SE, has been designated the 2007 chair of ACORD’s board of directors. John Kellington, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Ohio Casualty...
Strategic Independent Agents Alliance Signs 2,100 Member
Jan 16 2007 // Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA), announced today that Barkema Insurance of Murray, Iowa has officially become SIAA’s 2,100th Independent Strategic Member Agency. Barkema Insurance joins the Midwest...
N.Y. Agents to Recognize Fastman as Professional Executive of Year
Jan 15 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. will present Jerry Fastman with its Industry Professional Executive of the Year award at the annual Metro Regional Awareness Program, Jan. 25, 2007, at the New York...
CEO Storms Seeks Bigger Role in Risk Management for Marsh
Jan 15 2007 // Marsh Inc. already is one of the world’s largest insurance brokers, but its chairman and chief executive, Brian M. Storms, wants to increase its role in the risk management business. As Storms sees it, Marsh should...
Delaware Agents Groups to Merge
Jan 11 2007 // The Independent Agents Association of Delaware (IIAD) and the Insurance Agents & Brokers of Delaware (IA&B of DE) have agreed to merge their memberships. “Our members have clearly told us that they want a...
