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Tampa Clinic Owners Patient Brokering

Oct 3 2005 // Five Tampa-area clinic owners have been arrested and a warrant issued for the arrest of a sixth owner for “selling” patients, most of whom were accident victims, to diagnostic facilities that billed auto...

A ‘Safe’ Way to Add Value for Your Customers

Oct 3 2005 // Insurance agents need to stand out from the crowd if they are to successfully compete for good clients. One easy way to do this also happens to be a great way to provide a useful service: Promoting safety and ways to...

Five Ingredients for Sales Success

Oct 3 2005 // Five years from now, many of you will no longer be in the insurance business. It’s true. Major changes in the insurance field have triggered a dramatic weeding out of this country’s sales force. To succeed in...

Distinguishing between Main Street and Wall Street

Oct 3 2005 // Agent Compensation Disclosure: Illinois’ Department of Insurance is continuing to investigate the commission practices of its independent agents, and the rest of the country is keeping an eye on what’s...

S.D. Observers Concerned About DOI Practices

Oct 3 2005 // Insurance representatives and legislators in South Dakota are concerned about how the state Division of Insurance is conducting its investigations in light of an ongoing conflict between the DOI and two life/health...

Illinios Insurance Director Assures Agents Commissions are Safe

Oct 3 2005 // Illinois Division of Insurance Director Michael McRaith assured an audience of independent agents that in spite of the Division’s ongoing investigation of agent commission practices, he was committed to working...

Brian Sullivan: The Industry is Changing – Really

Oct 3 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...

IIABA of W.Va. Conference and Expo in Shepherdstown

Oct 3 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline and leading West Virginia insurance instructors, experts and officials will address the Oct. 7 to 10 annual Professional Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of...

A ‘Safe’ Way to Add Value for Your Customers

Oct 3 2005 // Insurance agents need to stand out from the crowd if they are to successfully compete for good clients. One easy way to do this also happens to be a great way to provide a useful service: Promoting safety and ways to...

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Oct 3 2005 // Victor McCarley Sr., executive director of the Alabama Independent Insurance Agents was presented the L.P. McCord National Education Award for outstanding commitment to education by Thomas Grau, president of the...

News Briefs

Oct 3 2005 // ALABAMA Ala. Commissioner Asks Carriers for 60 Day Grace Period Alabama Insu-rance Commissioner Walter Bell has asked all carriers to provide a 60-day grace period for customers who have claims related to Hurricane Katrina...

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Oct 3 2005 // RISC Inc. in Dallas, announced the appointment of Pat Mulady, to the position of vice president in the Brokerage Department. Mulady’s focus will primarily be tough casualty risks. Mulady joins RISC with over 12 years...

A “Safe” Way to Add Value for Your Customers

Oct 3 2005 // Insurance agents need to stand out from the crowd if they are to successfully compete for good clients. One easy way to do this also happens to be a great way to provide a useful service: promoting safety and ways to...

Five Ingredients for Sales Success

Oct 3 2005 // Five years from now, many of you will no longer be in the insurance business. It’s true. Major changes in the insurance field have triggered a dramatic weeding out of this country’s sales force. To succeed in...

Oct 3 2005 // Seattle-based Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company has announced that Leslie Mallonee has been named senior vice president and chief information officer. Mallonee’s history in information technology includes his...

The artisan contractors market on the rise

Oct 3 2005 // As the United States’ total population creeps up on the 300 million mark, no one can call the residential construction industry a dying breed. The continuous need for housing is apparent in the nation’s fastest...

Meeting the Needs of Customers by Providing Superior Customer Service

Oct 3 2005 // During a recent project, the agency owners and the staff all agreed that the key strength of the agency was “customer service.” When asked to define “customer service” most people replied with...

Katrina, Asbestos, Soft Market Test Mettle of Today’s Bright CEOs

Oct 3 2005 // Industry pundits have praised today’s insurance chief executive officers as better informed and more disciplined than their peers of the past. The next few months may put that notion to the test as these leaders are...

Progressive’s Drive Web site Attracts One Million Visitors

Sep 30 2005 // More than one million consumers have visited Progressive’s Drive Insurance web site, www.driveinsurance.com, to find out more about the benefits of buying auto insurance through an independent agent or broker, the...

PIA Legislative Update: Agents Have Until March to Make Recommendations to Florida’s Hurricane Task Force

Sep 30 2005 // Legislative changes effecting property insurance that took place this year in the Florida Legislature were discussed by Keri Rayborn, Rayborn Consultants, and Ron Villella, PIA’s government affairs director, during a...