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North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group Selects SEEC’s CSA
Aug 3 2004 // SEEC Inc., a provider of legacy modernization solutions for insurance, financial services and manufacturing, and Enterprise Web provider Plumtree Software announced that North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group (NCFB)...
Allstate Workplace Division Unveils New Worksite Application for Independent Agents
Aug 3 2004 // Allstate Workplace Division has launched a new electronic worksite application program called AllApp for independent agents contracted to sell Allstate Workplace Division products. AllApp features a combined product...
Quality Customer Service Vital for Satisfaction, Progressive’s Survey Says
Aug 3 2004 // Proactive and personalized service are an important part of what consumers say they want from their independent insurance agent or broker. And while most independent agents say it’s important to provide this level of...
Three Unitrin Companies Join Trusted Choice
Aug 3 2004 // Kemper Auto and Home, Unitrin Multi Lines Insurance and Unitrin Specialty Lines Insurance have joined the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America’s (IIABA) Trusted Choice campaign—the national brand...
Hull & Company Announces Dallas Appointments
Aug 2 2004 // Donna Boyd joined the Dallas office of Hull & Company as a senior account executive, placing contract and brokerage business for Texas retail agents. Boyd is a seasoned Excess & Surplus lines broker with 31 years...
Mary M. Eisenhart Joins Agency Management Resource Group
Jul 30 2004 // Cheryl L. Koch, CPCU, CIC, ARM, AAI, AIM, AIS, ARP, AAM, API, ACSR, owner of Agency Management Resource Group of Lincoln, CA, a leading provider of consulting and training services to independent agents and companies, is...
Trusted Choice Ads to Return to Airwaves
Jul 29 2004 // Trusted Choice television ads return to the national airwaves next month when the fourth of six advertising flights in 2004 kicks off Aug. 9, according to Trusted Choice Board Chairman Ronald Smith, president of Smith...
Webcetera Delivers “Real Time” Auto Insurance Quotes for Safeco and Independent Insurance Distributors
Jul 29 2004 // Independent insurance distributors in seven western states now can get accurate Safeco Auto and Home quotes without leaving their EZLynx Web portal (www.ezlynx.com). In insurance industry parlance, this is...
IIABA of N.Y. Backs Case for Reauthorization of TRIA
Jul 29 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. has taken its case for reauthorizing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 before the end of the year to Capitol Hill. Three members of the Syracuse-based...
Eisenhart, Vogelman Join Calif.-based Agency Management Resource Group
Jul 29 2004 // Cheryl L. Koch, owner of Agency Management Resource Group of Lincoln, Calif., a provider of consulting and training services to independent agents and companies, announced that Mary M. Eisenhart has joined the firm as...
Philbin Chosen as New Trusted Choice Exec. Director
Jul 28 2004 // Heather Philbin was announced as the new executive director of Trusted Choice, according to Big “I” Executive Vice President Debra Perkins. Trusted Choice is the consumer marketing brand created by the...
Warrants Issued for Ga. Agent
Jul 27 2004 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine announced that warrants have been issued in Savannah, Ga., for an insurance agent charged with multiple counts of insurance fraud. Rosemary Middleton has been charged with eight...
CalSurance Unveils National E&O Coverage for Broker-Dealers with 75 or Less Registered Reps
Jul 27 2004 // CalSurance, a national insurance sales, service and support organization comprising many diverse and specialized programs, has launched a specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer...
Md. Agent Charged in Fraud Case
Jul 27 2004 // Maryland Attorney General Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Dorothy Faye Mortimer, 61, of Waldorf, Maryland. In a forty-four (44) count criminal indictment filed in the...
America’s Trial Lawyers to Insurance Journal: Drop Dead
Jul 26 2004 // The American Association of Trial Lawyers held its annual convention in Boston early this month. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was among the speakers. The following is an exchange of emails between ATLA’s...
Burton Joins Heath’s Houston Office as Broker
Jul 26 2004 // Heath Insurance Brokers announced that Chantelle Burton has joined its Houston office as a professional and financial services broker. Prior to joining Heath, Burton was an associate director at Myron Steves’s...
Industry, Consumer Interests Square-Off Over Mass. Auto High Risk Plan Changes
Jul 23 2004 // A parade of industry representatives urged Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler to approve rules to transform the state’s auto insurance high risk plan into an assigned risk model, but consumer groups...
Parting Shots: Mo. Agents Deserve Better
Jul 22 2004 // Larry Case In working with and representing Missouri’s independent agent community over the past 17 years, I have always believed that agents deserve more and better. That not only goes for the service delivered by...
C&D Order Issued to La. Agent
Jul 22 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance shut down a Jena, La. insurance producer and issued a Cease and Desist order, along with a summary suspension of her insurance license, for allegedly misappropriating premium dollars...
Mass. Legislation Aims to Eliminate Confusion in Auto Insurance Billing
Jul 22 2004 // The Massachusetts Legislature has approved legislation that insurance agents hope will help eliminate confusion in auto insurance billing. The Massachusetts Senate on Wednesday joined the House in approving House Bill...
