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Word & Brown General Agency Introduces New Online Quoting System
Jul 1 2005 // Orange, Calif.-based Word & Brown General Agency introduced an all-new Web-based integrated system that enhances the quoting capabilities of California’s health insurance brokers by giving them the ability to...
Agents Unhappy with Administration’s View on Terror Insurance
Jul 1 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America expressed both cautious optimism and concern over Administration comments regarding a federal backstop for terrorism insurance. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act is...
New Broker Integro Adds Lowenthal as Chief Information Officer
Jun 30 2005 // Integro Ltd. announced that Craig S. Lowenthal has joined the company as managing director and chief information officer. Based in the company’s New York headquarters, Lowenthal will be responsible for the...
American Hobbyist Adds Online Rating, Submission to Site
Jun 29 2005 // American Hobbyist Insurance, a national provider of collector-vehicle insurance, has added real-time online quoting and submission capabilities to its newly redesigned Web site. “The collector-car market is sizzling...
FAIA Targets PIA of Florida: Claims It Took Credit for ‘Big I’ Accomplishments While It ‘Gave Away the Playbook’
Jun 29 2005 // During two “Big I” conventions held in Florida in June, speakers accused the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida of taking credit for Florida Association of Insurance Agents accomplishments, while actually...
Agents Oppose Crop Insurance Premium Reduction Plan
Jun 29 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America testified Tuesday before a Senate committee on the ongoing question of the Premium Reduction Plan (PRP), which potentially opens the door for unqualified and...
10 Companies, Nine Agents Fined Nearly $1 Million in W.V. in 2004
Jun 29 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, has announced that the Insurance Commission fined 10 companies and nine agents nearly $1 million dollars last year for violations relating to the insurance code of the...
PIA Sponsoring Program to Aid Agents in Taking Back Personal Lines Market Share from Direct Writers
Jun 29 2005 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) announced its sponsorship of a special program to help its members take back market share from direct writers. In cooperation with Agency Revenue Tools LLC,...
PIA Defends State Regulation, Opposes Federal Charter, Objects to Disclosure
Jun 28 2005 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents steadfastly supports state regulation of insurance, strongly opposes an optional federal charter and has cautioned carriers against adopting company-specific...
Stiglitz Warns AIIA: ‘Compensation System Is Under Attack’
Jun 28 2005 // “Our compensation system is under attack, it is probably about $2 billion that independent agents put in their pockets due to profit sharing and it is under attack, there is no doubt about it,” Bill Stiglitz,...
Best Study: Agents, Insurers Raid Competition for New Employees
Jun 28 2005 // When insurance companies and agencies go looking for new producers, they rely mostly on referrals and word-of-mouth recommendations, and they say the best places to look for those new recruits are other insurers and...
Yates & Assoc. Adds New Admitted Transportation Carrier
Jun 27 2005 // Yates’ commercial transportation department has just added a new Admitted carrier to its line up and the carrier is hungry for new business from California agents according to Barbara Parker-Hatch, executive vice...
Growing Need for Urban Agents Spawns National Program
Jun 27 2005 // A growing need for agents who can serve the rapidly evolving urban market is leading companies and agents to explore new programs aimed at improving local distribution networks, according to Suzanne Reade, president of the...
New Broker Integro Appoints Aque to Lead Chicago Office
Jun 27 2005 // Integro Ltd. today announced that Nancy Aque has been appointed managing director and head of the company’s Chicago office and Midwest hub. Aque has more than 35 years of brokerage experience, with special expertise...
IIAT Names Watkins Young Agent of the Year; McCoy Honored as Top ACSR
Jun 27 2005 // Patrick Watkins, president of the Watkins Insurance Group in Austin, was named Young Agent of the Year by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas. In addition, Kelly McCoy, senior commercial accounts manager at McQueary,...
Reynolds Sworn in as IIAT President; McCain Wins Drex Foreman Award
Jun 24 2005 // Among the many highlights of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ 108th IIAT Conference and Trade Show, held recently in Austin, were the installation of Randy Reynolds, managing partner of Texas Associates...
FAAI Conference Speaker: Rep. Bense Congratulates Fla. Agents
Jun 24 2005 // Rep. Allan G. Bense, (R-Panama City) Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and one of the most influential political figures in Florida, congratulated insurance companies, agents and claims personnel for their...
Brokers Financial Services Names Morrison as Premium Finance Manager
Jun 23 2005 // Brokers Financial Services, a division of USG Insurance Services, Inc., announced the appointment of Nancy Morrison as manager of premium financing at the Livonia, Mich., location. She will assist the agents and the...
Dixieland Music Kicks FAIA Exhibit, Conference Into High-Gear
Jun 23 2005 // A Dixieland jazz band, the Swing Sisters and a strolling magician entertained more than 1,000 Florida agents on June 22 as the Florida Association of Insurance Agents opened afternoon exhibits at the Gaylord Conference...
Nationwide’s Allied Insurance Looking for Agents in Eastern States
Jun 22 2005 // The independent agency arm of giant Nationwide Insurance is expanding its reach and looking for agents in the East and South. Allied Insurance, which currently has more than 4,500 independent agency locations in the West...
