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The Trust Factor: Building Relationships With Your Clients
Jun 20 2005 // Baffled by the product, overwhelmed by policy verbiage, and totally put off by the adversarial nature of the whole business, consumers nationwide express having serious trust issues with the insurance industry. In...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // ALABAMA DOI Lists Insurance Providers A list of insurance companies, agencies and agents writing property insurance in coastal areas of Alabama, including Mobile and Baldwin counties became available June 13, thanks to the...
FAIA President Says: In Our Future Some Things Will Never Change
Jun 20 2005 // Created more than a century ago in 1904 as the Florida Local Underwriters Association, the Florida Association of Insurance Agents adopted its present name in 1941. FAIA is dedicated to enhancing the independent agency...
PIA of Fla. Broadcasts Web-based Hurricane Panel Discussion
Jun 20 2005 // Florida’s insurance industry survived last year’s record-breaking hurricane season and is prepared to help homeowners weather what may come this year. That was the message during a recent Web broadcast carried...
FAIA Celebrates Its 101st Anniversary: General Session Features Four Experts
Jun 20 2005 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents will celebrate its 101st anniversary during its June 23 to 25 Convention and Educational Symposium at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. “I...
By Wes Bailey
Jun 20 2005 // Nobody Ever Said That Life or the CGL Policy Was Fair! I was recently teaching a seminar dealing with the details of the Commercial General Liability Policy, and a participant attending the seminar made a very interesting...
Nationwide’s Allied Insurance Looking for Agents in East and South
Jun 20 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...
By Stephanie K. Jones
Jun 20 2005 // Trials and Tribulations in Neverland (Oklahoma) Almost everyone did something wrong in Neverland-Neverland, Oklahoma, that is. This story begins and ends in the District Court of Neverland-where a mock trial put on by the...
WIAA Fights Back Against Calif. Commissioner’s Proposed Regulations
Jun 20 2005 // The Western Insurance Agents Association has released a brochure on behalf of its member agents detailing its campaign to stop California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s alleged excessive and unjust...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // WASH. CLIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR $14M FROM MARSH: More than 15,000 Washington businesses, associations, individuals and other organizations reportedly qualify for nearly $14 million in restitution offered by the nation’s...
WIAA Fights Back Against Calif. Commissioner’s Proposed Regulations
Jun 20 2005 // The Western Insurance Agents Association has released a brochure on behalf of its member agents detailing its campaign to stop California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s alleged excessive and unjust...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // WASH. CLIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR $14M FROM MARSH: More than 15,000 Washington businesses, associations, individuals and other organizations reportedly qualify for nearly $14 million in restitution offered by the nation’s...
Companies Deliver Public Relations Pitch
Jun 20 2005 // So just how does an industry respond to negative publicity? A number of companies involved in the insurance world have had to answer that question regarding the broker contingent commissions crisis, which has grabbed...
Wharton Study Finds Agents, Brokers Play Critical Role in Buying Process
Jun 20 2005 // Contingent commissions based on insurer profitability align the interests of independent agents, brokers and the insurer so correct pricing of policies is achieved, thereby alleviating adverse selection, reports a new...
By Cynthia Beisiegel
Jun 20 2005 // Scandal: Now What? Nothing! When news of Eliot Spitzer’s allegations against giant insurance broker Marsh & McLennan hit the press in October 2004, local agents and brokers braced themselves for an onslaught of...
Zero Tolerance: Agency Mistakes are No Longer Acceptable
Jun 20 2005 // There is an abundance of material offering insurance agents advice designed to minimize or prevent errors and omissions claims. Most of these materials are generalized, focusing on proper file documentation and stressing...
Nine Ways to Get Personal Lines Clients in the Door
Jun 20 2005 // The personal lines industry may be viewed through multiple competitive prisms. These include the classic independent agent versus direct writer perspective; independent and exclusive agents versus the banks, and...
Enhanced Online Policy Access
Jun 20 2005 // The Drive Group of Progressive Insurance Companies expanded its partnership with Strategic Insurance Software to implement a real-time interface, using ACORD XML standards, that provides independent agents and brokers...
By Andrea Ortega-Wells
Jun 19 2005 // From the playground to the classroom to the office – bullies can be found in all walks of life, says an anti-bullying advocacy group vying for new legislation that could potentially outlaw workplace bullying. But how...
By Francis J. Huver
Jun 19 2005 // No more excuses: Making the case for EPLI Common misconceptions leave business owners, small and large, in the bare Employment practices liability insurance has been available on a stand-alone basis since the early 1980s....
