Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fireman’s Fund Picks American Collectors Insurance to Provide Collector Vehicle Coverage
May 4 2004 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company has chosen American Collectors Insurance Inc. a specialty niche managing general agent – as exclusive provider for its co-branded collector vehicle program that insures the...
Price Joins Heffernan Insurance Brokers Portland as Senior Producer
May 4 2004 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers announced the appointment of Scott Price as a producer in its Portland office. With production responsibilities focused on commercial accounts in the greater Northwest, Price is charged with...
Fla. Agent Sees License Revoked
May 3 2004 // A Boca Raton, Florida man has lost his license to sell insurance after being charged with compromising the health insurance of four children. On March 12, the Department of Financial Services filed an administrative...
Some IJ Firsts
May 3 2004 // This issue marks another new venture for Insurance Journal magazine. For the first time ever, we have compiled a list of the nation’s top 100 independent property/casualty brokerages ranked by premium volume. This...
Agency Management Systems: Still Waiting for True Integration with Carriers
May 3 2004 // The true integration of agency management systems with carrier systems may be on the horizon—but current market dynamics make it a very distant horizon. In the meantime, more of the policy transaction process and...
Real Technology Issues Facing Agents Today
May 3 2004 // Based on the many conversations I’ve had with agents, I think it is safe to say that they are sick to death of doing multiple entries of the same data. Real-time, security, download, paperless to the agent, multiple...
CIAB PROCEEDS TO DISMISS W. VA. LAWSUIT AFTER STATE’S DECISION:
May 3 2004 // The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) reported it would dismiss its federal lawsuit challenging West Virginia’s counter-signature requirements for out-of-state insurance brokers because the state has...
Fla. Agent Surrenders License After Guilty Plea
May 3 2004 // A Coconut Creek area insurance agent surrendered his license after pleading guilty to securities fraud, according to the Florida Department of Financial Services. Investigators with the department discovered that Daniel...
The Numbers Have It
May 3 2004 // Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who’s the biggest of them all? Welcome to Insurance Journal’s first ever “Salute to Independent P/C Agencies Top 100” issue, in which we tried to determine who’s at...
Austin Agents Get First Look at The Academy’s New Imaging Book
May 3 2004 // Representatives from The Academy of Producer Insurance Studies met with the Independent Insurance Agents of Austin (IIAA) on April 14 at the Westwood Country Club in Austin, Texas, and presented several attendees with the...
Agency Management Systems: Still Waiting for True Integration with Carriers
May 3 2004 // The true integration of agency management systems with carrier systems may be on the horizon—but current market dynamics make it a very distant horizon. In the meantime, more of the policy transaction process and...
Agencies Underpay CSRs, Overpay Producers, Argues Consultant Bates
May 3 2004 // East News • April 15 “Right on the mark. Problem is that the insurance companies think the agency system would do better to fire all CSR’s and use their call center leaving just producers to sell. Sorry,...
California Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Package
May 3 2004 // Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on April 19 designed to overhaul California’s costly workers’ compensation system and save employers billions of dollars. The compromise legislation will limit...
Real Technology Issues Facing Agents Today
May 3 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...
Calif. Agent Pleads Guilty to Selling Phony Policies
May 3 2004 // California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators are seeking additional victims in the case of a West Sacramento insurance agent/broker who sold phony policies to more than two dozen construction firms, bilking them...
Agents Add Value with Customer Self-Service
May 3 2004 // From the consumer’s perspective, the insurance industry often seems schizophrenic about service. Who do you contact for help on routine billing or policy matters? The agent? The carrier? Either one? Depending on the...
GAO Study Finds Unauthorized Health Insurers Piled Up $252M in Unpaid Claims
May 3 2004 // A study conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), released at the end of February, found that unauthorized health insurers are costing workers significant amounts in unpaid benefits. The entities surveyed, who...
Agencies Underpay CSRs, Overpay Producers, Argues Consultant Bates
May 3 2004 // East News • April 15 “Right on the mark. Problem is that the insurance companies think the agency system would do better to fire all CSR’s and use their call center leaving just producers to sell. Sorry,...
Alliance Looking for Broker/Agent Responses to Low Cost Auto Survey
May 3 2004 // With the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance program developing into a major issue this year, both in the Legislature and at the Department of Insurance, the American Agents Alliance is interested in finding out what...
Big I Board Nominates Stiglitz as President-Elect
May 3 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s Board of State Directors has nominated William G. Stiglitz III as the association’s president-elect and has elected Alex Soto, CPCU, ARM, as the...
