Latest Agencies Headlines
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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...
Big I Announces Best Practices Symposium
Jul 22 2004 // Increasing profits, maintaining revenue growth in a challenging market, and sustaining a competitive advantage are the focal points of workshops at the upcoming Best Practices Business Symposium. The symposium, conducted...
Survey: Market Index Shows Continued Softening for Commercial P/C Market
Jul 21 2004 // The commercial property/casualty insurance market showed signs of continued softening in the second quarter of 2004, with one-third of the small accounts and more than half the medium and large accounts experiencing...
Survey: Carrier Performance Falls Short of Expections
Jul 21 2004 // Ease of doing business with carriers is critical to the productivity—and profitability—of independent insurance agents, says an industry survey. In a recently completed second annual survey, agents reported that...
Wash., Calif. Agencies Newest Members to ISU Network
Jul 21 2004 // ISU International President, T.J. Ryan III, announced the addition of the newest members to ISU’s national network of agencies effective July 1: ISU Insurance Services—Connor & Kelly of Spokane, Wash.; and ISU...
MI-Assistant: On the Brink
Jul 20 2004 // From the brink of the dustbin to the brink of a bright future, it’s been a bumpy ride recently for MI-Assistant, the Eleva, Wis.-based agency solutions provider. In the cutthroat world of competitive rating and...
New Texas Broker/MGA Targets Contracting, Equipment
Jul 20 2004 // A.D. Carlton Insurance is a new specialty wholesale broker and MGA located in Irving, Texas, formed to assist agents in placing crane accounts, equipment rental/distribution companies, steel erection, millwright and a...
Crop Insurers, Agents Unhappy With New SRA
Jul 20 2004 // The deadline for crop insurers to agree to the 2005 version of the federal crop insurance program’s Standard Reinsurance Agreement came and went June 30. And while all the 14 insurers who participated in the program...
Baird Joins Heath Insurance Brokers of Conn.
Jul 20 2004 // Heath Insurance Brokers of Connecticut LLC, announced that Woodrow M. Baird has joined its Farmington, Conn. office as a vice president responsible for the marketing and production of commercial casualty accounts. Previous...
Missouri Agents Deserve Better
Jul 19 2004 // 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 the Missouri...
Florida Senator Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions
Jul 19 2004 // Flying New Missions Bill Nelson As his bio notes, as a child Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
