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AIIA Members Have Access to New E&O Umbrella
Jan 21 2004 // Alabama Independent Insurance Agents (AIIA) member agencies now have access to a new E&O Umbrella. In response to member requests IIABA through Big “I” Advantage programs is making a commercial umbrella...
Acordia Acquires Feeney Durler West Insurance Services
Jan 21 2004 // Acordia,Inc., the fifth largest insurance brokerage in the U.S., and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, acquired Feeney Durler West Insurance Services, LLC. The agency’s professional staff will continue...
Zurich NA Small Business Account Execs Now Are ‘State Agents’
Jan 21 2004 // The small business unit of Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich North America has elevated the position of its 175 account executives to the position of state agent, the company said in a statement. The transition recognizes the...
Vermont Commissioner Lists “Top 10” Investment Fraud Schemes
Jan 21 2004 // Vermont’s Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA) Commissioner John Crowley issued a bulletin aimed at helping investors cope with the “increasingly complex and...
CNA Announces New BOP Options
Jan 20 2004 // Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA announced the early release of its enhanced Business Account Package Policy (BAPP). Originally scheduled for release in late March, the company said in a statement that the...
N.J. Auto Profits’ IIANJ Disputes Findings
Jan 19 2004 // Statistics released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners last week, have received widespread coverage in New Jersey. They seem to show that, contrary to industry statements, the state’s auto...
PIANY Honors Faina Aynbinder, Nicole DeVito
Jan 19 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. announced that Faina Aynbinder will receive its Bernard I. Kozel Memorial Scholarship award and Nicole DeVito will receive its Arthur I. Moll Memorial Scholarship...
IIANC’s Annual Eastern Agents Conference Runs Jan. 28-29
Jan 15 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s (IIANC’s) annual Eastern Agents Conference, the largest insurance conference in the eastern part of North Carolina, will be held Jan. 28-29, at the Holiday...
Fla. Advises on ‘Top 10’ Investment Scams to Beware of for 2004
Jan 15 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher and Don Saxon, Director of the Office of Financial Regulation, warned that investors will be challenged with increasingly complex and confusing investment frauds in...
IIABA National Legislative Conference Runs April 21-23
Jan 15 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) has scheduled its 28th annual National Legislative Conference for April 21-23 at The Capital Hilton in downtown Washington, D.C. The event, which always...
Guy Carpenter Voted Best Reinsurance Broker
Jan 14 2004 // In a recent study of the reinsurance marketplace by Flaspohler Research Group, U.S. ceding companies, which include the world’s largest property and casualty companies, have ranked Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc....
New Non-Underwritten Homeowners Program Available from Superior Access
Jan 14 2004 // Richard Swoy, chairman of Irvine, Calif.-based Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. has announced that a new specialty program is available to California agents and brokers having problems placing homeowners’...
IIABA Names Two PR Staffers
Jan 14 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) announced it has hired two new staffers in its public relations office. Jemarion Jones is IIABA’s new manager of media relations. She replaces Kevin...
Willis Acquires Danish Reinsurance Broker
Jan 14 2004 // London-based global brokerage Willis Group Holdings announced it has agreed to acquire Kirecon A/S, based in Copenhagen. Terms were not disclosed. Kirecon is a leader in providing reinsurance broking services in Denmark....
The Hartford Adds Endorsement Requests for Agents Utilizing AMS Agency Management Systems
Jan 13 2004 // Submitting endorsements to insurance policies from The Hartford reportedly just got faster and easier for the thousands of insurance agents that use an AMS agency management system. The Hartford, which has long been a...
IIABA Notes Legislative Agenda for New Year
Jan 13 2004 // With the start of the New Year and the beginning of a new session of Congress only a few weeks away, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) is rolling out its legislative agenda for 2004. Top...
Happy New Year!
Jan 12 2004 // Well, it has finally happened. We’ve made it into 2004 with a bang. This Jan. 12 issue marks a watershed moment in Wells Publishing—and insurance industry history! While this may be just another edition of...
The Strange Saga of Near North’s Michael Segal
Jan 12 2004 // We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group’s subsidiary, Near North...
To Fee, or Not to Fee
Jan 12 2004 // While service fees have been around for a long time, difficult market conditions and increased agency costs have made the use of service fees by agencies more popular in the past few years. In recognition that the Illinois...
CNA Targets $1 Billion in Main Street Business
Jan 12 2004 // The small business unit of Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA hopes to hit $1 billion in premium volume at the end of 2005 by targeting Main Street businesses with more customized policy forms and a stripped-down...
