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Agents and Brokers: Top 10 Reasons to Join the Top 100… and Let Your Success be Known
Apr 21 2005 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top privately-owned independent insurance agencies and brokerages is continuing but some qualified firms have not yet sent in their entry forms. The final deadline...
President Bush Addresses The Big ‘I’
Apr 21 2005 // President George W. Bush addressed his vision for Social Security and insurance issues before more than 1,000 independent insurance agents and brokers at the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s...
From Brokers and Risk Managers, Mixed Signals on Compensation and Conflicts of Interest
Apr 20 2005 // The risk management community and the world’s largest insurance brokers sent mixed signals on the future of contingent commissions for insurance brokers and other potential areas of conflict of interest at this...
RemoteScan Now an Option for Agents
Apr 20 2005 // RemoteScan Corporation, the makers of network connectivity software for document scanners and digital cameras, announced the release of RemoteScan for Insurance Agents. Office workers at insurance agencies and branch...
North Carolina IIA to Host 2008 Big I Junior Classic
Apr 19 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina announced that North Carolina will host the National Trusted Choice Big I Junior Classic in 2008. This prestigious tournament will be hosted at the Country Club of North...
PIA National Takes Issue with Plumeri’s Comments
Apr 19 2005 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has reiterated its support of contingent commissions being a part of the compensation received by Main Street professional insurance agents. The PIA statement was...
Saving Pittsburgh’s Summer
Apr 18 2005 // With Rates Climbing and Underwriting Tightening, Outdoor Groups Try to Hang On So often, the industry hears about issues from the side of its own insurance agents or underwriters. This is a tale from the perspective of...
Identity Crisis: Coping With Today’s ID Thievery
Apr 18 2005 // Insurance, Recovery Services and Preventive Measures One in 23 adults can expect to be victimized this year by identity thieves, at a cost to Americans of more than $50 billion. That’s according to the 2005 Identity...
\Asked & Answered: Wisconsin Commissioner Jose Gomez
Apr 18 2005 // John Fogerty once sang, “I ain’t no fortunate son.” As the son of an independent insurance agent who forced me to work in the office while I was growing up, I can relate to the sentiment. Wisconsin...
Cross-Selling May Be a Missed Opportunity for Agents and Brokers
Apr 18 2005 // Part Two: Picking the Right Partner and Other Keys to Making It Work What would happen if Amazon.com decided to start selling residential real estate? This may sound like a wild-haired idea, but it illustrates a point...
Unique ‘How to Write’ Seminars Deliver More Than an Education
Apr 18 2005 // Insurance Journal’s 14-Part Series Gives Agents Added Time and Potential Income Where do retailers go to find the solutions they need to write new business? Insurance Journal, in partnership with Shand Morahan &...
Entrepreneurial Spirit and Trust: Marks of Today’s Successful MGA
Apr 18 2005 // An Interview with Francis Johnson, AAMGA President-Elect Francis Johnson, president of Johnson and Johnson Inc., of Charleston, South Carolina, becomes president of the American Association of Managing General Agents in...
Keeping Retention Rates High in a Softening Market
Apr 18 2005 // The success or failure of any organization can be traced to customer retention. Agents and carriers who retain the most customers have greater long-term success and profitability than those who consistently lose...
Doing the Right Thing Brings Rewards for SRA’s John Wood
Apr 18 2005 // Specialty Risk Associates, a managing general agency headquartered in Shreveport, La., has been on the move in the past several years–expanding beyond its Louisiana base into neighboring states–and has plans to...
E&O for Broker-Dealers
Apr 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: CalSurance has enhanced its specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer registered representatives. It provides each broker-dealer with their own policy limits without...
IIA Oklahoma Urges Agents to Attend Capitol Event
Apr 18 2005 // Dan Ramsey, executive director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (www.iiaok.com) sent a message to agents encouraging them to attend IIAO Day at the Capitol on April 27. Urging agents to become actively...
AGENT CHARGED WITH POCKETING PAYMENTS
Apr 18 2005 // A Lake Charles, La., insurance agent (producer) was arrested and issued a cease and desist order, along with a summary suspension of his license, on charges of submitting fraudulent damage repair claims and pocketing the...
CE CREDIT SCAM INVOLVES AGENTS
Apr 18 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. announced that Leo Vincent Jacob of Covington, La., has pled guilty to six counts of filing false public records in a criminal scheme that involved hundreds of insurance...
The Attack on Credit Scoring and Other Risk-Based Insurance Pricing Tools
Apr 18 2005 // Independent Agents and Their Customers Have the Most to Lose As product manager for the state’s largest writer of auto insurance through independent agents, I want to take this opportunity to remind you that...
Errors and Omissions for Broker-Dealers
Apr 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: CalSurance enhanced its specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer registered representatives. The program enhancement now provides each broker-dealer with its own...
