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Safeco Plans Use of New Business Automation
Oct 10 2003 // In a major enhancement to its point-of-sale automation, Seattle-based Safeco has unveiled plans for a single, unified web-based technology platform that will reportedly make it faster and easier for independent...
Okla. Agents May Now Renew Licenses Online
Oct 10 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher reported that insurance agents are now able to renew their licenses online via the Oklahoma Insurance Department Web site. Until the service was made available, insurance...
RMS Expands Commitment to Lloyd’s Market
Oct 10 2003 // Newark, Calif.-based RMS, a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, has expanded its commitment to the Lloyd’s market with the addition of three Lloyd’s managing agents as new...
IIANJ Comments on Out of State Trust Accounts; ID Cards; Consumer Notices
Oct 10 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey has issued three separate bulletins addressing the problems of out of state trust accounts, multiple ID card forms and consumer notices on automobile insurance. The IIANJ...
Unigard Receives ASCnet Award, Unveils Second Program Using ACORD Standards
Oct 10 2003 // At the recent Applied Systems Client Network’s 18th Annual TENCon -technology, education and networking conference, Washington-based Unigard Insurance Company was one of only 15 companies recognized with...
PIANJ Praises DOBI Effort to Fight ID Card Fraud
Oct 9 2003 // In a comment issued to The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. said it wholeheartedly supports the DOBI’s endeavor to reduce insurance identification...
Fla. Judge Rules Agent Countersignature Law Unconstitutional
Oct 9 2003 // A Florida U.S. district court judge has struck down as unconstitutional the state’s countersignature law, which required that Florida resident agents and brokers get half the commission on insurance transactions...
Travelers Implements Automated Sign-On to Web Site for AMS System Users
Oct 9 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. reported that it is one of the first carriers to participate with AMS Services, Inc. in the implementation of Carrier Passport, an expansion of TransactNOW that provides automated sign-on...
Express Tax Service Notes Agreement with National Assoc. of Professional Allstate Agents
Oct 9 2003 // Express Tax Service, Inc., a Jacksonville, Fla.-based franchise company, has signed an agreement to offer tax services through the members of the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA). NAPAA is...
IIABA Reports Now is the Time For National Agent-Broker Licensing Reform
Oct 7 2003 // A U.S. district court’s decision that two Florida laws denying equal treatment to nonresident Florida-licensed agents are unconstitutional will result in an additional breakdown of artificial barriers to licensing...
Ala., N.M., N.Y. Associations Honored with McCord National Education Awards
Oct 6 2003 // Independent agent associations in Alabama, New Mexico and New York were recognized for their educational programs as the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) recently presented each of them with a...
Electric Insurance Notes Agency Offering
Oct 6 2003 // Electric Insurance Company recently began offering auto, home and personal umbrella protection though a select group of agents in six states. “We are very competitively priced for the middle market by design. Our 35...
N.C. Ind. Agents Team Up with Local Fire Departments, Schools to Promote Fire Safety
Oct 6 2003 // Young children are reportedly twice as likely to die in fires as are older children and adults. Statistics show that for young children, fires and burns are the leading cause of unintentional injury. Why? Many young...
Who Moved My Benefits’ Change in the Employee Benefits Industry
Oct 6 2003 // Anyone whose life is touched by Employee Benefits—employers, employees, and brokers—has been forced to deal with a tremendous amount of change in the last few years. Group health insurance premiums are increasing...
BOPs, The Small Business Shield
Oct 6 2003 // Like a fine wine, BOPs seem to be getting better with age. Long the marketplace standard of property and liability insurance for small businesses, BOPs, known more formally as Business Owners Package policies, have...
The Rule of 55
Oct 6 2003 // When the Rule of 55 was first explained to me in 1981, it didn’t have much impact. In fact, I had never heard of the rule. After all, I was 42 years old and in charge of a rapidly developing insurance agency. I...
Communications, People and Technology Ride High on Canter’s ‘To Do’ List
Oct 6 2003 // Louise “BeBe” Canter, senior vice president of Patterson/Smith Associates, Falls Church, Va., was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America Inc. (IIABA) during the...
ASCnet, Applied Systems Focus on Dual Product Development, Education
Oct 6 2003 // Over 1,900 Applied Systems users came together in New Orleans for the 18th Annual ASCnet 2003 TENCon Convention Sept. 10-13. Dubbed by newly-inducted ASCnet president Stu Durland as “the conference for agents in the...
Special Coverage: NAPSLO Annual Convention
Oct 6 2003 // The NAPSLO Annual Convention took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. For more Insurance Journal interviews and special video coverage of the NAPSLO Convention, including an...
Insurance Journal Goes National, Keeps Regional Focus
Oct 6 2003 // Insurance Journal, published in California since 1923 and Texas since 1995, is going national. Joining the West and Texas/South Central editions will be three new regional editions—Northeast, Midwest and...
