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All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Profit Center Accounting
Sep 20 2004 // Is personal lines costing the agency money? How profitable is that new program business the agency is promoting? What would happen to the bottom line if employee benefits sales increased by 25 percent? When is it time to...
Knowing vs. Doing in a Changing Marketplace
Sep 20 2004 // As the market changes do you possess the courage to do what you know you have to do? We agents are intelligent folks. We’re smart enough to know what is right and what is not. Yet, we too often don’t have the...
Heath Names Kaspar as Property Broker
Sep 20 2004 // Specialty-lines brokerage Heath Insurance Brokers announced that Chris Kaspar has joined its Chicago office as an assistant vice president and property broker. He comes to Heath after spending eight years working in the...
Growth Determines Retail, Wholesale Broker’s Value
Sep 20 2004 // Sustaining Progress in a Changing Rate Environment The wind has been at the back of insurance agents and brokers for the past several years and has resulted in smooth sailing. Organic growth rates have been in double...
Going Paperless – Is it for the Independent Agency’
Sep 20 2004 // All Agencies Can Benefit from a Paperless Environment Many independent insurance agents and brokers are used to the concept of “paperless processing” since most of the insurance companies they represent utilize...
Successful Agencies Build on Management Systems
Sep 20 2004 // Ask adults what they like most about McDonald’s fast food restaurants, and it probably won’t be the food, especially in our increasingly health-conscious society. It’s the fact that wherever we...
Mergers & Acquisitions Made Easy with Your Strategic Advisory Director
Sep 20 2004 // There’s no doubt that mergers and acquisitions are a booming trend right now. Every day, agencies purchase other agencies; large insurers buy out agencies, brokerages merge together to form a united front against...
Chubb Deploys New Technology for E&O Coverage
Sep 17 2004 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies announced the development of “a new tool to help agents, brokers and their information and network technology clients save time and money when applying for errors and omissions...
Va.’s Hilb Rogal Acquires Wisconsin Broker
Sep 17 2004 // Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company (NYSE:HRH), a worldwide insurance and risk management intermediary based in Richmond, Va., has agreed to acquire the operating assets of Insurance Services, Inc., (Insurance Services), a...
Ark. Updates Policy for Non-Resident Agent Licenses
Sep 17 2004 // Effective Sept. 30, 2004, the Arkansas Insurance Department will no longer require a non-resident individual to provide a current home state certification with a new license application or for a license renewal if the...
Infinity Offers CE at Ohio Agents Conference
Sep 16 2004 // The Ohio Agents Alliance will hold its conference Oct. 22-23 this year in Worthington, Ohio. The group is a state affiliate of the National Auto Agents Alliance, an association formed specifically to address the needs of...
Myers Named Trusted Choice Executive Director
Sep 16 2004 // Jeffrey A. Myers, a 15-year industry communications veteran with extensive experience at the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (the Big “I”) and in the industry, has been named the new...
U.S. Risk LLP Associate Broker Receives Wells Scholarship to Attend Producer School
Sep 16 2004 // James Russell Debenport, an associate broker in U.S. Risk LLP’s Houston office, was selected as the recipient of the Matt Wells Scholarship for Producer Development for attendance at The National Alliance School for...
Michael Walther to lead global launch as new CEO of XDimensional Technologies
Sep 16 2004 // XDimensional Technologies, Inc. announced today that Michael Walther has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. “Nexsure, the world’s first Web-architected insurance agency...
Higher Deductibles 1 Way to Ease Homeowners Crisis, Argues Big I Report
Sep 14 2004 // Why has the hard market created a homeowners insurance affordability and availability problem for so many consumers? Homeowners insurance policies are too broad, deductibles are too small, and insurers don’t do...
Boston’s Insurance Professional of the Year Award to be Presented to David Lane, Agent and Representative
Sep 13 2004 // The Insurance Library Association of Boston will present its annual Insurance Professional of the Year Award to industry leader and public servant, David J. Lane, an owner and chairman of Hastings Tapley Insurance Agency,...
Abacus Insurance Brokers Unveils Online Wedding Cancellation Program
Sep 10 2004 // Abacus Insurance Brokers has announced the availability of an online wedding cancellation program, exclusively for brokers, powered by the APM Platform. Brokers are able to quote and bind in real-time, accept payments...
Citizens and Hanover Insurance Unveil Agency Portal
Sep 9 2004 // The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies have launched The Agency Place, a new, web-based agency portal that provides its network of independent agents with centralized access to all of the information and tools they...
Iowa Agent Pleads Guilty, Gets 10 Years
Sep 8 2004 // Former Washington, Iowa, insurance agent Roy Evanovich pled guilty to first-degree theft, money laundering, securities fraud, and tampering with records last Friday in Washington District Court, according to the Iowa...
Grow Small Commercial Accounts with a “Producer-Free Zone”
Sep 6 2004 // There are myriad reasons and methods for restructuring your agency. In my June 7, 2004, column I suggested completely eliminating your personal and commercial lines departments and replacing them with combined direct...
