Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Book Zooms in on Agency Sales Centers
Dec 9 2003 // Austin-based The Academy of Producer Insurance Studies announced the release of new book, Zoom In On Sales: Target Marketing, Prospecting, and Sales Centers, which takes a close look at the reasons, reviews and results of...
Travelers, InStar Corp. Note New Real-Time E-Service Solutions to Agents Using IVANS Transformation Station
Dec 9 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. (www.travelers.com) and InStar Corporation (www.instarcorp.com), an agency management system provider, announced new real-time e-service capabilities for loss runs, electronic policy view,...
IIASA to Host Special Christmas Program
Dec 8 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio announced that its membership luncheon for December will include a special program honoring firefighters and recognizing companies and individuals who have contributed to the...
AIA, PIANJ, IIANJ Applaud N.J. Senate’s Rejection of “Verbal Threshold” Bill
Dec 8 2003 // Following a hearing, at which numerous industry representatives testified (See IJ Web site Dec.5), the New Jersey Senate on Friday, in a 5 to 1 vote, refused to send S-2533, the “verbal threshold” bill to the...
Kansas Agents Meet Jan. 27-29
Dec 5 2003 // The Kansas AIA Rural and Small Agents Conference will take place next month (Jan. 27-29) at the Holiday Inn in Salinas, KS. More information is available by contacting Leann Lowe at (800) 229-7048, or by e-mailing:...
New TAIPA Web-Based Submission Feature Takes Off
Dec 3 2003 // The Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) reported its new Web-based feature allowing agents to use the Internet for submitting auto insurance applications is up and running. During the month of November...
Weatherby-Eisenrich Joins CAA
Dec 2 2003 // Austin-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that Weatherby-Eisenrich Inc. has joined the organization as its newest member, increasing membership to 28 agencies. CAA is a managing general agency (MGA)...
SIAA Names New Canadian Master Brokerage
Dec 2 2003 // Agency aggregator Strategic Independent Agents Alliance announced that London, Ontario-based Omni Insurance Brokers has assumed control of SIAA Canada and has established the Southwest Brokers Network as a strategic master...
PLUS Convention Highlights D&O, E&O Concerns For Agents/Brokers
Dec 1 2003 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s 16th annual convention, held Nov. 9-11 in Philadelphia, featured a broad range of discussions on timely issues facing insurers, agents, brokers and the lawyers who...
CDI Investigating Reports of Bogus Policies
Dec 1 2003 // Allegations that more than 200 bar and restaurant owners in California were sold bogus insurance policies is under investigation by a number of different entities. A California Department of Insurance (CDI) spokesperson...
Business Disaster Planning
Dec 1 2003 // While this article was being written, Southern California was still on fire. Thousands of homes were burned to the ground along with hundreds of thousands of acres of forests. This is one of the key times that the...
Avoiding the Half-Million Dollar Mistake
Dec 1 2003 // Hiring the wrong producer is what I call a $500,000 mistake. In fact, in analyzing the fallout from hiring the wrong producer, the mistake can often be greater than one-half million dollars. Believe me, I’ve been...
SIAA Claims More Than Just Aggregation
Dec 1 2003 // At first blush, the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance may look like just one more short-term solution to the increasing shift in the balance of power toward insurance carriers away from independent agents. Commissions...
9 Programs That May Just Fit the Bill
Dec 1 2003 // The December 2002 Insurance Journal “program directory” issue highlighted eight programs that the editorial staff considered to be unique, interesting or tough to find. This year we’ve added one more to...
Your Fastrack to CE Credits
Dec 1 2003 // Insurance Journal Associate Publisher Dena Kaplan interviews Brad Nevins, president and co-founder of online continuing education service FastrackCE about the benefits of online education and the advantages over...
LA. AGENT ARRESTED:
Dec 1 2003 // A Ruston, La. insurance agent with expired licenses was issued a cease and desist order in the wake of his arrest on charges of felony theft and insurance fraud. According to the Louisiana Department of Insurance the...
9 Programs That May Just Fit the Bill
Dec 1 2003 // The December 2002 Insurance Journal “program directory” issue highlighted eight programs that the editorial staff considered to be unique, interesting or tough to find. This year we’ve added one more to...
How to Develop Program Business Despite Tough Market Standards
Dec 1 2003 // Over the past several years, launching new insurance programs—both from the perspective of potential producers, such as MGAs, retail agent groups and wholesalers, and the specialty insurance carriers—has been...
SIAA Claims More Than Just Aggregation
Dec 1 2003 // At first blush, the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance may look like just one more short-term solution to the increasing shift in the balance of power toward insurance carriers away from independent agents. ommissions...
Canadian Study Examines Government Role in Auto Insurance
Dec 1 2003 // The Centre for Spatial Economic and Shift Central Inc. have released a study, commissioned by Insurance Bureau of Canada on behalf of brokers, agents and insurers in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, that sheds new...
