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Conn. Underwriters: Thinking Inside the Box
May 17 2004 // Bill Kiley is well aware of the need to think outside the box in any business but the New England insurance wholesaler has hit upon a hot idea by doing just the opposite. For the past few months Kiley has been focused on...
Rounds and Rounds We Go
May 17 2004 // It was a weekend in early 2002 and Pierre, S.D.-based agent Michael Rounds was having trouble sleeping. He tossed and turned and started to feel sick to his stomach. All the bed-hopping was making it tough for...
AMS Says Real-Time Comparative Rater is Only Months Away
May 17 2004 // Leading agency automation provider AMS says it is just months away from completing a real-time comparative rater that will satisfy independent agents’ need for a single-entry, multiple carrier interface, also known...
AMS Says Real-Time Comparative Rater is Only Months Away
May 17 2004 // Could SETWrite Be the Single Entry Ideal Agents Have Sought for Decades? Leading agency automation provider AMS says it is just months away from completing a real-time comparative rater that will satisfy independent...
The Market Will Always Be ‘The Market’
May 17 2004 // Our “market” is still essentially no different than what it was a century ago. We are still in the business of protecting the assets of our insureds while generating a profit. For as long as I have been in the...
Professional Liability for Agencies
May 17 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Chicago-based CNA insurance companies and Affinity Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Aon Corp., have jointly introduced Agency Advantage, a new professional liability insurance program for...
Mass. Gov. Romney Kicks Auto Insurance Reform into High Gear
May 17 2004 // The industry officials who run the private passenger auto high risk system in Massachusetts have started drawing up rules in response to urgings by the administration of Gov. Mitt Romney to make their operations and the...
LOUISIANA AGENT SHUT DOWN:
May 17 2004 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley said Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served New Orleans agent, Tanya Maria Price, with cease and desist orders and suspended her individual and agency...
Fraud Comes in All Shapes and Sizes
May 17 2004 // Within minutes of recently posting a new poll question on our Web site (www.insurancejournal.com), we quickly learned what some in the insurance industry think of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal. As...
IIASA, TWIA WINDSTORM WORKSHOP:
May 17 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio announced it will host a windstorm insurance underwriting workshop in conjunction with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. The workshop is scheduled for June 4, 2004,...
IIABA Legislative Conference Allows Agents, Brokers Chance to Lobby
May 17 2004 // From coast to coast, they came to Washington, D.C., last month for a chance to have their voices heard on a wide range of issues from workers’ compensation to taxes on their businesses. The 28th Annual Independent...
California’s Workers’ Compensation Problem – The Hidden Cause
May 17 2004 // Most, if not all, of work done over the past year on workers’ compensation reform has been directed at symptoms and not causes. The true cause of the workers’ compensation problem is poor employer management...
Taking the Risk: Protecting Your Clients with Political Risk Insurance
May 17 2004 // Over the past three decades, 80 percent of the terrorist attacks against the United States have been directed against American businesses in foreign locations. In 2001, about 400 American businesses were attacked. Compared...
Group Long-Term-Care Insurance: How to Cash in on this Hot Voluntary Benefit
May 17 2004 // Voluntary benefits, where the employees pay the full freight through payroll deduction, are booming. Voluntary plans let employers offer attractive fringe benefits like dental, vision care and disability insurance at no...
All the World’s a Market for Rekerdres & Sons
May 17 2004 // Texas agency insures nearly half of the nation’s cotton exports. Ted Rekerdres never intended to go into the insurance business, but an effective sales job by his father “Rek” Rekerdres, who established...
Making the Rounds With South Dakota’s Governor, a Former Insurance Agent
May 16 2004 // Michael Rounds Michael Rounds was having trouble sleeping at night. An insurance agent by trade and a politician by passion, he had told close friends and associates that he would not run for the governorship of South...
N.J. Young Agents in Race for Special Olympics
May 13 2004 // To mark its 20th anniversary, the New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals’ Fun Run expects to raise $100,000 for Special Olympics New Jersey this year. Held as part of the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey...
Electric Insurance Company announces the launch of real-time auto quoting through IVANS Transformation StationTM
May 12 2004 // Electric Insurance appointed agents in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin who use Applied TAM now have the ability to conduct real-time auto quoting without leaving their agency management system. Real-time quoting eliminates...
Correction: 100 Largest P/C Independent Agencies
May 11 2004 // Insurance Journal recently published a list of the top 100 largest property/casualty independent agencies and brokers in its May 3, 2004 issue. The list was compiled based on information that agencies voluntarily submitted...
Urick Joins Lockton Insurance Brokers
May 11 2004 // Willis E. Urick III recently joined Los Angeles-based Lockton Insurance Brokers Inc. as vice president of Lockton’s Benefits Company. His responsibilities will include strategic planning, new business development and...
