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PIA of Georgia’s Atlanta Expo Stresses Education
Oct 17 2005 // The importance of professional education was stressed by John Oxendine, Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner, during the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia’s ninth annual Education Expo held on in late...
DFS Spokesperson Outlines Fla. Agency Licensing Requirement Changes
Oct 17 2005 // Changes in Florida’s legislation during the spring session and new administrative changes requiring agency licensure or registration were described by Hazel Muhammad, bureau chief of Agent and Agen-cy Licensing with...
Gregory Stevens
Oct 17 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio announced it recently installed Gregory A. Stevens as the 84th president of the association. Stevens is president of Texas Insurance Division of Compass Insurance Agency...
Using a Marketing Approach to Recruiting Employees
Oct 17 2005 // The lifeblood of the independent insurance agency system is sales. You are the distribution system for insurance carriers and your long-term success is rooted in your ability to produce business. As a result, you probably...
Brian Sullivan: The Industry is Changing – Really
Oct 17 2005 // Even though we’ve heard it many times before, the insurance agency business is on the cusp of huge changes, driven in part by technology, a host of new and better insurance products, and increased stability on the...
How to Choose the Right Bank for Your Agency
Oct 17 2005 // As an independent agent or agency owner, you have unique financial needs. Unfortunately, few banks truly understand those needs. Worse yet, it has become the norm for banks to also sell insurance, meaning they actually...
California Insurance Commissioner Campaigns Against Fraud
Oct 17 2005 // California State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has launched a statewide campaign to warn consumers about scams involving fake insurance policies. The Department of Insurance has cracked several fraud cases in the...
Industry Associations Object to CDI Legal Opinion on Fiduciary Duties
Oct 17 2005 // The California Department of Insurance (DOI) recently released a legal opinion on insurance fiduciary duties that industry associations say is over-reaching and will adversely affect their members. In its opinion, the...
San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that William Dougherty has joined the firm as an Account Executive w
Oct 17 2005 // Hilb Rogal and Hobbs Company, headquartered in Glen Allen, Va., has appointed Michael Crowley to the position of president. In that role, Crowley will have overall responsibility for profit and loss, revenue growth,...
News Briefs
Oct 17 2005 // California Judge throws out $700 million jury award in Executive Life Suit A federal judge has thrown out a $700 million (euro586 million) award for punitive damages won by the state of California in a lawsuit stemming...
Brian Sullivan: The Industry is Changing – Really
Oct 17 2005 // Although we’ve heard it many times before, the insurance agency business is on the cusp of huge changes, driven in part by technology, a host of new and better insurance products and increased stability on the part...
Chubb’s Contractors Equipment Express
Oct 17 2005 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies created an online system designed to make it easier for agents and brokers to quickly obtain a rate, quote or binder for contractors’ equipment risks with schedules up to $5...
News Briefs
Oct 17 2005 // Katrina Churns in $34.4B in Losses: Hurricane Katrina is expected to cost U.S. property/casualty insurers an estimated $34.4 billion in insured property losses, making it the costliest U.S. catastrophe ever, according to...
Van Aartrijk Group Unveils Service Promoting Agencies to Consumers
Oct 14 2005 // The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a marketing-communications firm specializing in insurance and financial services, announced the rollout of I-Marketing Management, a new business unit tailoring consumer-marketing plans for...
North Carolina Big ‘I’ Names Gastineau ‘Agent of the Year’
Oct 14 2005 // John Gastineau was named the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s “Agent of the Year,” during IIANC’s Oct. 9 to 12 annual conference in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The annual award recognizes the...
California and Arizona Agents Finally Have a Choice. Softech Announces its MVR Integration with the FSC Rater.
Oct 13 2005 // Softech International announces the launch of a new web-based MVR interface within the FSC Insurance Solutions comparative rater. This interface will allow insurance agents to order motor vehicle reports without having to...
Skywire Software Rolls Out Policyware for MGAs, E&S Brokers
Oct 13 2005 // Frisco, Texas-based Skywire Software, a diversified software company with a concentration on the insurance industry, announced the launch of Policyware, a centralized, Web-based agency management system designed...
N.Y. Agents Elect Viana as President
Oct 12 2005 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. has elected officers for the 2005-2006 administrative year. J. Carlos “Shawn” Viana of Latham, N.Y. was elected president. He is senior vice president of...
SAN Group Network Added 8 N.E. and N.Y. Agencies in Third Quarter
Oct 12 2005 // The SAN Group, the network of independent insurance agencies in the New England and New York, grew by eight members during the third quarter. SAN is now comprised of over 180 independent agencies writing more than $275...
Ky. Agent Took $150,000 from Clients, Sentenced to 20 Years
Oct 12 2005 // Michael Jay Heathman of Lexington, Ky., who did business as Preferred Financial Service, has been sentenced to prison for 20 years after admitting he stole about $150,000 from his clients. Heathman’s plea was the...
