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The Council Endorses NexsureTM as the Preferred Agency Management System

Aug 10 2004 // In a continuing effort to provide member companies with the best available resources for managing an insurance brokerage in today’s highly competitive marketplace, The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (The...

Three Unitrin Subsidiaries Join Trusted Choice

Aug 9 2004 // Kemper Auto and Home, Unitrin Multi Lines Insurance and Unitrin Specialty Lines Insurance have become members of Trusted Choice—the national brand created by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America...

‘Round and ‘Round the Cycle Goes, Where it Stops Nobody Knows

Aug 9 2004 // Like the wheels of Lance Armstrong’s bike—a blur of perpetual motion as he powered up mountain after mountain in the Tour de France—the non-stop cycle of the property/casualty insurance market continues on its...

IIAJC Allows Independent Agents to Give Back to Communities

Aug 9 2004 // In 1969, independent insurance agents came together for a community service project that would empower and motivate young people. Since then, that project has matured into the nation’s largest junior stroke-play golf...

Reduce Your Costs by Sharing Expenses with Competitors

Aug 9 2004 // There are multiple ways to grow your agency’s bottom line. The most exciting way is, of course, to sell more policies. You logically devote most of your energies to this essential activity because it’s the best...

Fowler and Keyes Join Noodle Specialty Brokers as Underwriting VPs

Aug 6 2004 // Insurance industry veterans James A. Fowler and John D. Keyes have joined Chicago-based Noodle Specialty Brokers (NSB), the newly formed division of InsuranceNoodle Inc., as senior vice presidents of underwriting. Noodle...

Toledo Broker is 1,000th to Earn CRM Designation

Aug 4 2004 // Joseph R. Buick, a broker with the Hylant Group in Toledo, Ohio, made his mark in risk management education history as he became the 1,000th individual to earn the prestigious Certified Risk Managers (CRM) designation, the...

IIABW to Hold Annual Conference Sept. 30 – Oct. 2

Aug 4 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington will hold its annual conference Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2004 at The Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington. The conference theme, “Making a...

The Expanding Ability of an Insurer to Recoup Costs Expended for Uncovered Claims

Aug 4 2004 // Insurers are routinely presented with complaints filed against their insureds where some of the complaint’s allegations do not fall within the coverage provided by an insured’s insurance policy. Nevertheless,...

Cravens/Warren & Co. Joins CAA

Aug 3 2004 // Combined Agents of America LLC announced it recently reached the 30-member milestone with the addition of Houston-based Cravens/Warren & Co. Cravens/Warren is located in the northwest quadrant of Houston, an area of...

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...