Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Chubb Adds Online Tool for Contractors’ Equipment Risks
Oct 5 2005 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has created an online system that enables agents and brokers to quickly obtain a rate, quote or binder for contractors’ equipment risks with schedules up to $5...
SilverPlume Launches Online Benefits and HR Tool
Oct 5 2005 // SilverPlume, a property and casualty insurance industry’s provider of electronic insurance and risk reference material, has launched Sage Benefits & HR, a subscription-based, online library and reference center...
Alliance Names Best Deal’s Munguia Agent of the Year
Oct 5 2005 // South Gate insurance executive Phil Munguia has been honored as the “Agent of the Year” by the Indian Wells, Calif.-based Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers (the Alliance). Munguia, who serves on the...
WIAA Response to CDI Advisory Letter on Disclosure
Oct 5 2005 // Our Lawyers Are Reviewing Your Legal Opinion. We Disagree With It. We’re Glad There’s New Found Industry-wide Agreement on Disclosure Rancho Cordova…The issue of full dollar disclosure has been the most...
Professional Risk Solutions Expands into Southeast
Oct 4 2005 // New Jersey-based Professional Risk Solutions (PRS), a wholesale brokerage insurance firm specializing in executive and professional liability insurance products, has opened a full-service office in Fort Myers, Fla. The...
Sky Financial Purchases Becker-McDowell and Steiner Agencies
Oct 4 2005 // Sky Financial Group Inc. announced the acquisition of Becker-McDowell Agency Inc. and Steiner Insurance Agency Inc., both located in Wooster, Ohio. Becker-McDowell specializes in employee benefits and Steiner focuses on...
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...
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...
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...
PIA OF GA. DONATIONS TO KATRINA VICTIMS TOTAL MORE THAN $23,000
Oct 3 2005 // Eighty-five agents, agencies and company partner members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia have donated more than $23,000 to help the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army meet the needs of individual hit...
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...
People
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...
