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Ky. Office Enhances Online Services for Agents
Mar 11 2004 // Kentucky insurance agents now have the option of reportedly saving time and paperwork thanks to new online services offered by the Kentucky Office of Insurance (OOI). Prior to the new enhancements to the OOI Web page,...
Big “I” Markets Adds National Interstate Recreational Vehicle Program to Product Line
Mar 10 2004 // Big “I” Markets, the online market-access program developed by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA), announced that National Interstate Insurance Company is providing Big...
Lloyd’s Honors Two U.S. Brokers
Mar 10 2004 // Lloyd’s announced that two U.S.-based brokers have been honored for their outstanding achievements in 2003. Gary Cooney of McGriff, Seibels & Williams was named US Surplus Lines Broker of the Year and John...
Wooley Leaves IIABA for Democratic Party
Mar 10 2004 // Derek Wooley, son of Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley, is leaving his job as governmental affairs representative with the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America to become the new executive...
CAA Named The Hartford’s Agent of the Year
Mar 10 2004 // Texas-based managing general agency (MGA) Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it was named Agent of the Year by The Hartford’s Houston branch. The annual award honors the agency or broker demonstrating the...
PIANJ Updates Online Agency Handbook to Reflect New Agents’ Ownership Law
Mar 9 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. announced that it has updated its Online Agency Handbook to incorporate the new law it helped to secure protecting agents’ ownership rights. “PIANJ fought...
Linda Halbleib Joins Lockton Insurance Brokers
Mar 9 2004 // Lockton Insurance Brokers, the nation’s largest independently owned insurance broker, appointed Linda Halbleib as senior vice president in the Property and Casualty practice. She will be based in Lockton’s San...
Building Agency Value Through Perpetuation
Mar 8 2004 // The number of independent insurance agencies with revenue greater than $250,000 dwindled to 20,066 in 2000, from 35,000 in 1990. By 2010, the number of agencies will decline to less than 12,000. While some portion of...
ILL. AGENTS OUTLINE AGENDA:
Mar 8 2004 // Medical malpractice, electronic notification and surplus lines will be some of the hot property/casualty issues in the Illinois General Assembly spring session, according to a newsletter sent recently by the Professional...
Lawyers Marching on Atlanta
Mar 8 2004 // What lawyer doesn’t like a good fight? As we report in this issue of Insurance Journal Southeast, the Georgia Legislature is considering a number of bills that address tort reform in the Peach State (page 8)....
Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses
Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...
The Hard Market’s Over … Or Is It’
Mar 8 2004 // Although I’ve been around the specialty industry for more years than I care to reveal (this information is in poor taste, akin to discussing a woman’s age), and now have seen multiple hard and soft markets,...
MINICO INC. LAUNCHES NEW COMMERCIAL INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM:
Mar 8 2004 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based MiniCo Inc. has announced the successful implementation of Renaissance, a new browser-based commercial insurance technology system designed to improve customer service throughout the...
CPIA SOCIETY ANNOUNCES NEW NAME AND LOGO:
Mar 8 2004 // The Certified Professional Insurance Agents (CPIA) Society, a national organization dedicated to providing sales training, networking and marketing innovation to insurance professionals, unveiled both a new name—American...
Model Behavior or Behavior Modeling’ Tools to Put Your Submission on Top
Mar 8 2004 // Underwriting risk is a tricky business whether in a hard or soft market. Competence and experience will always be a hard combination to find, but is greatly valued by strong companies. It’s amazing that even the best...
Handing Off Your Business: Five Ways Agents Can Develop Their Legacy
Mar 8 2004 // If you like your customers as much as we like ours, you probably care what happens to them over the long term. When you decide to make a career change or retire, and a family member is not going to take over the business,...
Small Businesses are Big Business
Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were 5,652,544 firms actively doing business in the U.S. in 2001, the latest available totals. This doesn’t count the millions of people who are self-employed. 5,036,845 of...
The Hard Market’s Over … Or Is It’
Mar 8 2004 // Surplus lines company executives and wholesalers at NAPSLO responded uniformly with broad smiles when asked about their 2003 results. Although I’ve been around the specialty industry for more years than I care to...
Brown & Brown Acquires Two N.J. Agencies
Mar 8 2004 // Florida-based Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of Statfeld Vantage Insurance Group and Waldor Agency, Inc. Both are located in Florham Park, New Jersey. Joint announcements were made by...
IIABNJ YAC Hosts “Day in Trenton”
Mar 8 2004 // For the first time in its history, the Young Agents Council (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) hosted a “Day in Trenton” on Thursday, March 4, 2004. The day was...
