Latest Agencies Headlines
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OSHA and Wis. Agencies Launch Job Safety Alliance
Jul 14 2005 // The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Wisconsin state agencies have launched an alliance aimed at preventing workplace hazards statewide, according to a statement from the...
Va. Agents Warned to Adhere to State’s Fee Disclosure Law
Jul 14 2005 // Virginia insurance agents might not have to worry about a new far-reaching compensation disclosure law as do agents in some other states, but they should pay attention to laws already on the books, the state’s chief...
Citizens/Hanover Touts Multi-Variate ‘Connections Auto’ as Winner
Jul 14 2005 // The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies’ new Connections Auto, a state-of the-art, multi- variate auto product with greater customer segmentation capabilities, is off to a strong start in its initial launch...
American Agents Alliance Opposes SB 20 Despite Amendments
Jul 14 2005 // American Agents Alliance Executive Director Ken Nigohosian says the association will maintain its opposition to Senate Bill 20 (Escutia), despite recent amendments to the bill. SB 20 would mandate the continuance of...
Bridgeport, W.Va. Insurance Agent Charged With Embezzlement, Fraud
Jul 13 2005 // Insurance agent Dorsey R. Ash of the Ash Insurance Agency Inc. in Bridgeport, W.V. has agreed to plead guilty to one count of embezzlement, a felony; and one count of conducting a fraudulent scheme, also a felony,...
Countrywide, Atlantic Mutual Join Forces to Sell Affluent Market Product
Jul 12 2005 // Countrywide Insurance Group and Atlantic Mutual have formed a strategic alliance to expand the availability of the Atlantic Master Plan insurance product nationwide to individuals with substantial asset protection...
Hurricane Dennis’s Bark Was Worse Than Its Bite; Carriers, Associations Evaluating Damages
Jul 12 2005 // As Hurricane Dennis approached Key West, Fla., large insurance carriers, expecting and preparing for the worst, alerted hundreds of adjusters to proceed to Florida and Alabama, and put hundreds of other employees on...
Big ‘I’ Says Reform Needed for National Flood Insurance Program
Jul 12 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) praised the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity for holding a hearing on the future of the National Flood Insurance...
La. Agent Charged with Pocketing Premiums
Jul 11 2005 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators accompanied by the State Police Insurance Fraud Unit served a 43-year-old Kenner insurance producer with a cease and desist order and summary suspension of her...
Citizens Activates Hotline, Dispatches Response Unit; Only a Few FAIA Agents Report Damage
Jul 11 2005 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. reports it has set up its “storm claims hotline,” and has dispatched a claims response unit to Milton, Fla.; while the Florida Independent Insurance Agents reports most of its...
Former Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty
Jul 8 2005 // The California Department of Insurance announced that Mark Jerome Gentry, of Antioch, entered a guilty plea on June 23, 2005 to multiple counts of grand theft in the Contra Costa County Superior Court. Gentry was sentenced...
Davis, Milnor and Wood Gain Election to IIAT Board of Directors
Jul 7 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas elected three new members to the association’s board of directors during the recent 108th Conference & Trade Show in Austin. Steve Davis of GBS Insurance in Bellaire;...
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...
