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Heath Insurance Brokers Opens Satellite Office
Jun 29 2004 // Casey B. Hamlin, President of Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Heath Insurance Brokers Inc. announced the opening of a satellite office in Redondo Beach, Calif. The new office is located at 149 Palos Verdes Blvd., Ste. F,...
NFIP Launches National Campaign for Agents, Consumers on Flooding Risks, Insurance Benefits
Jun 29 2004 // This week, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) its new national marketing campaing, FloodSmart, which is designed to educate consumers about the risks of flooding and the benefits of flood insurance, as well as to...
IIABA Honors Virginia’s Adkins with National ACSR of the Year Award
Jun 29 2004 // Jacqueline Adkins, a claims management specialist with Norfolk, Va.-based Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs Co., has been named the 2003 National Accredited Customer Service Representative (ACSR) of the Year by the Independent...
Woronoco Bank to Buy Colton Agency in Mass.
Jun 25 2004 // Woronoco Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Woronoco Savings Bank, has signed an agreement to acquire The Colton Agency, Inc., an insurance agency located in Westfield, Mass. The bank plans to merge the agency with its...
Bowles, Nutt Receive Awards at IIAT Convention
Jun 25 2004 // Donald E. Bowles, Jr., president of McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP in Dallas, won the Drex Foreman Award and Rowdy Nutt, a producer with Bosworth & Associates in Tyler, was named IIAT Young Agent of the Year for 2004...
2004 State IIAJC Jr. Golf Tourney Plans Set
Jun 25 2004 // “Final plans are in place for the State Tournament for the Independent Insurance Agent Junior Classic (IIAJC), also known as the Big “I” Junior Classic, which is sponsored nationally by the Independent...
Willis to Acquire Irish Broker Coyle Hamilton
Jun 24 2004 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, announced that it has reached agreement in principle to acquire a majority shareholding in Coyle Hamilton, the Republic of Ireland’s largest privately owned...
Fla. Agents Charged with Issuing Fake Certificates
Jun 24 2004 // Two Orlando agents are facing numerous felony charges for allegedly issuing fraudulent workers’ compensation certificates to employers who needed them to apply for business licenses. Marcia V. Richardson, 40, and...
Bland Named IIAT’s ACSR of the Year
Jun 24 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas named Cherrie Bland of the Grimes Insurance Agency, Lubbock, the IIAT ACSR of the Year during the IIAT Annual Convention held recently in Dallas. Liz Patterson of Myron F. Steves...
Canada’s RSGC Acquires 49% Stake in London Broker
Jun 23 2004 // The Toronto-based RS Group of Companies, Inc. (RSGC), formerly Rent Shield Corp., a provider of pass-through risk specialty insurance and reinsurance products, announced that it has completed the purchase of 49 percent of...
American Agents Alliance to Host Calif. Sen. Cedillo at July 7th Meeting
Jun 23 2004 // The American Agents Alliance will welcome Senator Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) to its July 7th meeting, to be held at 7:00pm at the Best Western Golden Sails Hotel in Long Beach. The meeting, one of several the Alliance...
Independent Insurance Agents of Montana to Hold Conference July 24-27
Jun 23 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Montana will hold its 73rd Annual Convention and Young Agents Conference from July 24-27, 2004 at the Rock Creek Resort in Red Lodge, Mont. Highlights of the event include breakfast with...
Conn. Gov. Rowland, Former Insurance Agent, Resigns from Office Amid Impeachment Inquiry
Jun 22 2004 // John Rowland, a member of a prominent Connecticut insurance and political family and himself a former insurance agent, resigned last evening as governor of Connecticut rather than testify before a legislative panel...
N.Y. Assembly Prepares to Close Today with Budget, Fair Plan, Other Insurance Issues Unresolved
Jun 22 2004 // The Legislature in Albany is scheduled to adjourn today and barring last-minute action will do so without passing a state budget and without addressing a slew of insurance and other key issues. Political observers,...
IIANC Selects Broker, Company of the Year
Jun 21 2004 // The Young Agents Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) named Burns & Wilcox/Morehead City as Broker of the Year and St. Paul Travelers as Company of the Year. IIANC says the Broker...
Mo. JUA Starts Taking Med-Mal Applications
Jun 21 2004 // Missouri’s new state-sponsored medical malpractice insurance program has begun accepting applications for coverage effective June 30 or later, the state’s insurance department announced recently. Physicians and...
It’s Real Time for Agency Technology
Jun 21 2004 // Real-time, security, download, paperless to the agent, multiple passwords, proprietary company Web sites, choosing an ASP—there is so much going on that it is hard to know where to start! Every day, independent agents...
MICH. AGENTS URGE ‘NO’ VOTE ON HELMET REPEAL:
Jun 21 2004 // The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) said that any attempt to weaken or repeal the state’s motorcycle helmet law will increase deaths and injuries for cyclists and raise insurance and medical costs....
West Bend Mutual: In With the New, and Hang On to the Old
Jun 21 2004 // Thanks to a hard market, a light catastrophic claims load and consistent underwriting, a little mutual based out of West Bend, Wis., was able to surpass the $1 billion asset mark at the end of 2003 for the first time in...
Wisconsin Big I Gets Visit From New Insurance Commissioner Gomez
Jun 21 2004 // The high point of Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin’s (IIAW) annual convention in May was a lengthy speech from Jorge Gomez, the state’s new insurance commissioner. A February 2003 appointee of...
