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Gales Creek Offers Community Development Program to Agents
Jun 15 2006 // Portland, Ore.-based Gales Creek Insurance Services, Inc. (GCIS) has announced that it is offering its Community Development Corporation (CDC) program to insurance agents and brokers nationally, effective Thursday, June...
Symington Tells Miss. Big ‘I’: Federal Charter a ‘Recipe for Disaster’
Jun 15 2006 // If a mandatory or even an optional federal charter is implemented in Washington, D.C., it will be a “recipe for disaster,” a top insurance agent lobbyist has warned. Charles E. Symington, Jr., told more than...
Bollinger Acquires 2 More N.J. Agencies, Hopgood and Windsor
Jun 15 2006 // Bollinger, Inc., a national privately held insurance broker, has acquired Windsor Benefit Consultants, Inc. and James E. Hopgood & Associates of Denville, N.J. Both firms’ employees will relocate to...
Agent Asks N.Y. High Court to Overturn John Hancock Ruling
Jun 14 2006 // Attorneys for life insurance agent Sherwood Schwarz have asked the New York State Supreme Court to overturn an arbitration award in favor of the John Hancock Insurance Company that they maintain denied him $30 million in...
Colemont Promotes Jan Rose Executive Vice President in Chicago
Jun 14 2006 // Colemont Insurance Brokers recently announced the promotion of Jan Rose to executive vice president of Colemont in Chicago. “Jan was a phenomenal leader for Chicago’s Financial Services Department. I have no...
N.J. Agents Elect Anderson as Association President
Jun 14 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has elected officers for for 2006-2007, with Andrew Anderson of Beach Haven, N.J., being chosen president. He is executive vice president and secretary of the G....
Hull & Co. Acquires Assets of Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers
Jun 14 2006 // Hull & Co.Inc. has acquired the assets of Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers Inc., located in Sherman Oaks, Calif., with revenue of approximately $2 million. “This is a great acquisition for us as it...
N.Y. Agents Report on Home Insurers’ Restrictions Downstate
Jun 14 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. says a recent survey of its member agents finds homeowners insurance companies have taken steps to reduce their exposure in downstate areas of New York since Jan. 1,...
WIAA & Alliance Submit Comments Opposing Mileage Verification Regulation
Jun 14 2006 // WIAA & Alliance Support Less Regulation, Not More, and More Competition, Not Less Rancho Cordova… On behalf of its members and members of the Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers, the Western Insurance...
Oxendyne Tells Ga. Big ‘I’: Abolishing Contingency Fees ‘A Mistake’
Jun 12 2006 // Abolishing contingency commissions and making them illegal would be a mistake, John Oxendine, Georgia Insurance Commissioner, told more than 800 agents attending the 109th Annual Convention, Trade Show and Young Agents...
N.Y. Agents Honor O’Shea
Jun 8 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York Inc. announced that John O’Shea, chairman of Marshall & Sterling Inc. in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will receive the Distinguished Insurance Service award at the...
Strategic Independent Agents Alliance Establishes New Mo.Master Agency
Jun 8 2006 // Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA) announces that The Powers Group, Inc. of Clayton, Mo. has established Valley Insurance Agency Alliance as a SIAA Master Agency. Their exclusive territory covers several counties...
Ericson Named Marketing Manager for Frye Claims Consultation
Jun 8 2006 // Adrienne Chapman Ericson has joined Frye Claims Consultation & Administration Inc. as director of marketing. She brings to the position more than 23 years experience as a professional liability and commercial general...
Denmark’s EKF, Sovereign Risk in $17 Million Ukraine Export Contract
Jun 7 2006 // Denmark’s Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) and Bermuda-based Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd. have completed a political risk insurance contract supporting DKK100 million ($17.1 million) of exports to Ukraine. “The...
Paulmar Software Introduces New Insurance Premium Accounting and Solvency Management Software
Jun 7 2006 // Product Performance: NOBL was designed to manage premium and return premium fiduciary funds transacted by P&C insurance agents and brokers until they are disbursed to legal owners (insurance companies, general agents,...
HealthNow N.Y. Acquires Northeast Benefits Firm, Brokerage Concepts
Jun 7 2006 // HealthNow New York Inc., parent company of BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueShield of Northeastern New York, is acquiring the business and operations of and Brokerage Concepts, Inc. (BCI), a major benefits...
CAA Elects New Management Committee
Jun 6 2006 // At its annual meeting May 24-25, Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, announced its newly elected 2006 management committee, including CAA’s new president, Bill Bridges, executive vice...
Mercator Risk Adds Broker Duo to Lead Midwest Property Practice
Jun 5 2006 // New York-based Mercator Risk Services, an independent wholesale insurance broker, has added two key members to its growing Midwest Property Practice. Jason Tegan and Libby Wakolbinger have joined Mercator’s Chicago...
N.Y. Agents Back Overhaul Of Workers’ Comp System
Jun 5 2006 // New York should increase its workers’ compensation benefits and try to deliver benefits in a less adversarial process, according to the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. The association made its...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
