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Banks Joins Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers
Jul 7 2005 // Rebecca Banks has joined Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers Inc. as a surplus lines broker. Banks will be responsible for developing new agencies and adding new carriers for brokerage business. She has served as...
LAAIA Agents Tackle Condo Policy Issues, Find Statutes Confusing
Jul 7 2005 // Major changes in Florida Statute 718 and how insurance agents should write condominium policies, based on what part of a condominium property should be covered by the condominium association and what part must be covered...
IIAK Installs England as President
Jul 6 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Kentucky (IIAK) installed Pikeville insurance agent, James England as its 109th president. He was installed at the association’s 109th annual convention in Lexington, which was...
Alliance Files Court Briefs On Behalf of Agents, Brokers
Jul 5 2005 // The American Agents Alliance has filed two briefs with the California Supreme Court in an attempt to protect insurance producers from fallout resulting from a recent Appellate Court ruling. On June 30 the state Supreme...
Former Agent Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges in La.
Jul 5 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that Phyllis Malveaux Breaux of Lafayette, a former licensed insurance agent, pled guilty on June 27, 2005, to felony theft over $500 before Judge Jules Edwards in...
Christiansen Named N.E. Regional President for Citizens/Hanover
Jul 5 2005 // The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies have named Michael R. Christiansen as president of its New England region, effective July 11. Christiansen formerly was a senior executive with Liberty Mutual’s...
How to Market Program Business to Carriers: Tell All, Honestly
Jul 4 2005 // Target Markets Mid-Year Meeting Program administrators, painfully aware how difficult it can be to get insurance companies to sign on, improve their chances of program success when they tell the complete story of their...
Target Markets Aims to Win
Jul 4 2005 // Nearly five years ago, a group of program specialists gathered in Tempe, Ariz., for the first summit meeting of a budding industry organization called the Target Markets Program Administrators Association. The brainchild...
Nationwide’s Allied Insurance Looking for Agents in South and East
Jul 4 2005 // The independent agency arm of giant Nationwide Insurance is expanding and looking for agents in the East and South. Allied Insurance now has more than 4,500 independent agency locations in the West and Midwest. It began...
Making the Grade in Agency Diagnostics
Jul 4 2005 // As individuals, the easiest way to see how well you are performing is to compare yourself to others. We all do it from time to time. Likewise, with businesses, comparisons are a very useful tool to check performance. The...
FAIA ‘Roundups’ Analyze Florida Legislation, Its Impact
Jul 4 2005 // A summary and analysis of 2005 Florida legislation and its impact on the insurance industry, including detailed analyses of SB 1912, SB 530, SB1486, HB 501, HCB 6001 and HB 19 were presented to Florida Association of...
IIAT Traditions Run Deep at Convention in Austin
Jul 4 2005 // Reynolds sworn in as president, McCain wins Drex Foreman Award. Among the many highlights of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ 108th IIAT Conference and Trade Show, held June 16 and 17 in Austin, were the...
Disclosure, Marketing Dominate Young Brokers and Agents Conference
Jul 4 2005 // Agents and brokers must unite and work together so that their industry is able to flourish despite recent challenges involving broker disclosure, participants learned at IBA West’s Young Brokers and Agents Conference...
Small Business Owners Face Gaps, Confusion Over Insurance Problem
Jul 4 2005 // Many U.S. small business owners face a major gap in their insurance coverage or do not fully understand coverage they have, a new national survey conducted by Trusted Choice finds. Trusted Choice agencies are insurance and...
Calif. Commissioner Discusses Workers’ Comp, Homeowners’ Insurance
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently took time out from his schedule to chat with Insurance Journal Online Editor Dave Thomas regarding SB 938, “use it and lose it” practices against...
Modesto Agent Arrested
Jul 4 2005 // A Modesto insurance agent/broker has been arrested and charged with 36 felony counts of insurance fraud stemming from a five-month joint criminal investigation conducted by the CDI and the Stanislaus County District...
Agent Leader Hits Hodgepodge of Disclosure Rules by Insurers
Jul 4 2005 // While insurance companies are calling upon state officials to coordinate their responses to the various brokerage compensation and other inquiries, independent insurance agents are worried about how the insurers themselves...
Romney Auto Reforms Hit Roadblocks from Mass. Agents and Court
Jul 4 2005 // When the chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America spoke before the Virginia Big “I” recently, he snuck in several digs at liberal-leaning Massachusetts, at one point...
People
Jul 4 2005 // Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance has promoted Alan D. Brannan to the new post of president of property/casualty for the Grange Mutual Casualty Group. In his new role, Brannan will oversee all property/casualty...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ALABAMA Arlene’s Timing Perfect for Referral List When Tropical Storm Arlene blew through Alabama it made the timing ideal for the release of a homeowners insurance referral list providing area homeowners with the...
