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Five Tampa Clinic Owners Arrested for Patient Brokering
Aug 26 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 then billed auto...
San Antonio Managing General Agency Announces Grand Opening
Aug 26 2005 // Stone Oak Underwriters, LLC of San Antonio, TX announces they are now accepting submissions from Independent Agents for Public Entities in Texas and Alabama with this new wholesale agency created by Tom Ramsbacher,...
IIATC Installs 2005-06 Officers
Aug 25 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Tarrant County recently held their annual Installation Banquet at Rolling Hills Country Club in Arlington, Texas. Ron Brown was installed as president of the association. Brown started...
WIAA Invited to Submit Testimony on Latest Addition to Garamendi Agenda
Aug 24 2005 // D’Arelli Says “Here They Go Again” Rancho Cordova…The California Department of Insurance has invited leaders within the insurance industry to participate in “prenotice discussions”...
Wash. Accepts Electronic Agent Appointments, Terminations Through National Database
Aug 24 2005 // Insurers may now reportedly save time by submitting new appointments and terminations for current Washington OIC agents through the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) Gateway. To learn how NIPR works and to review...
CDI to Introduce Third Revision of Broker Fiduciary Regs, Says Alliance
Aug 24 2005 // Although yet to be unveiled, it appears the California Department of Insurance will be introducing the third iteration of its broker fiduciary responsibility regulations. American Agents Alliance Executive Director Ken...
Miami PD Eliminates Its Auto Theft Unit; Area Agents Predict Higher Policy Rates, Increased Thefts
Aug 23 2005 // Insurance agents in Miami and Dade County were dismayed to discover this morning that, “due to manpower shortages” the Miami Police Department has disbanded its Auto Theft Unit. A PD spokesman told the Miami...
Constantini Joins Integro Brokerage as General Counsel
Aug 22 2005 // William P. Constantini has joined the New York-based insurance brokerage firm Integro as general counsel. A corporate attorney for more than 30 years, Constantini most recently was a senior vice president and general...
Ryan, Wheeler Join Burns & Wilcox
Aug 22 2005 // San Diego-based Burns & Wilcox, a specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent, appointed Nancy Ryan as a commercial underwriter for the company’s San Diego office. As a Burns &...
Lighthouse Underwriters Adds Workers’ Comp to ElderCare Program
Aug 22 2005 // Lighthouse Underwriters LLC (www.lighthouseunderwriters.com), a program underwriting company that works with select industry groups, has expanded its ElderCare insurance program with a new workers’ compensation...
Claims History Model Act Now in Hands of State Legislators
Aug 22 2005 // NCOIL Model Addresses Use of Claims, Inquiries in Underwriting Homeowners Consumers who initiate a homeowners insurance claim but never receive payment could find that single incident may be used by their insurer to cancel...
Brokerage Watch
Aug 22 2005 // Brokerage Watch is a new bimonthly Insurance Journal department written by Charlotte, N.C.-based LMC Capital LLC (www.LMCCapital.com), a national investment banking firm focusing exclusively on the insurance industry....
Seven Steps in Selling Your Agency
Aug 22 2005 // Most agency owners have put their time, energy and heart into building their business. The business is a part of their life. The sale of one’s business is usually a one-time event. It therefore makes sense to take...
FORMER AGENT CHARGED
Aug 22 2005 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley announced that a former insurance producer from Mansura, La., was arrested and issued a cease and desist order for allegedly misappropriating insurance funds. Gordon Mark...
Negotiating the Highs and Lows in the Oil and Gas Market
Aug 22 2005 // Everything’s negotiable. If that’s not the key operational phrase in the oil and gas sector–both in terms of oil and gas production and insuring that risk–then it comes very close. Contracts rule in...
The Four C’s of Risk Management for the Oil and Gas Operator
Aug 22 2005 // In what seems a lifetime of handling risk management and insurance for oil and gas operators (well, I guess it is a lifetime if you are under 35 years of age), I have come to the realization that the functions to protect...
Broker Disclosure Dominates Western States Surplus Lines Conference
Aug 22 2005 // Brokers should disclose contingent commissions and other incentive agreements to consumers, industry experts said at the Western States Surplus Lines Conference held July 24-26 in San Diego. Participants in the...
Former Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty
Aug 22 2005 // The California Department of Insurance announced that Mark Jerome Gentry of Antioch, Calif., entered a guilty plea on June 23, 2005 to multiple counts of grand theft in the Contra Costa County Superior Court. Gentry was...
WIAA SUBMITS COMMENTS ON LATEST GARAMENDI AGENDA PROPOSAL:
Aug 22 2005 // The Western Insurance Agents Association submitted comments to the California Department of Insurance opposing yet another over-reaching proposed regulation impacting the insurance industry. Michael J. D’Arelli, vice...
IIABO TO HOLD 77TH ANNUAL CONVENTION AUG. 28-30:
Aug 22 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Oregon have announced the highlights of their upcoming annual convention, “United We Stand.” The event will be held at the Tigard Embassy Suites Aug. 28 to Aug....
