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Travelers Receives Awards for Achievements in Technology
Sep 15 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty received two achievement awards for its leadership position in the implementation of interface technology at the Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet) annual conference in New Orleans last...
New IIANJ Officers Take up Posts; YAC Officers Installed
Sep 15 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey announced that the organization’s new officers for the year 2003/2004 are to be sworn in at its 110th Annual Conference to be held in Ocean City, Maryland, September...
Louisiana Shuts Down Agent for Multiple Violations
Sep 12 2003 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley announced that a former insurance agent (producer) in Haynesville, La., was ordered to cease and desist from all activity in the business of insurance in the latest...
Travelers P/C Adds Real-Time Billing Inquiry and On-Line Policy Summary for Personal Lines
Sep 12 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty announced that PL Policy Summary and Billing Inquiry are now available to independent agents for Travelers personal lines insurance policies. These new e-services are accessed directly through...
National PIA Recognizes GMAC Insurance’s Pierce
Sep 11 2003 // Rick Pierce, vice president and senior marketing manager at GMAC Insurance, was recently honored as the recipient of the national Professional Insurance Agent Company Representative of the Year Award for 2003 by the...
United Agencies Adds DJR Insurance Agency as Member
Sep 11 2003 // Thomas Hays, chairman of the board for United Agencies, announced that DJR Insurance Agency, Inc. of Canyon Lake, Calif., became its newest member group. Jerry Pond, president of DJR Insurance Agency, Inc. has more than 30...
Aviva Plans $1.9 Billion Bond Issue – Rating Agencies React
Sep 11 2003 // Aviva Plc., the U.K.’s largest insurer, announced plans to raise £1.2 billion ($1.91 billion) in new capital through the issuance of junior subordinated bonds. Plans call for the issue to be completed by the end of...
Jimcor Agencies Pens Deal with Custom Insurance Solutions
Sep 10 2003 // Francis Mastowski, president of Jimcor Agencies and its affiliates, announced the signing of an agreement with Custom Insurance Solutions (CIS) to install their AIM Management System. Jimcor is a multi-state MGA and...
Authorities Seek Additional Victims in Calif. Broker-Agent’s Scam
Sep 10 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) and the Glendale Police Department are asking for more victims to come forward after the arrest and conviction of Nahed Sabri El-Hawary on eight counts of...
Top Ind. Court Rules in Agent’s Favor
Sep 10 2003 // The Indiana Supreme Court has denied the appellee’s petition to transfer the jurisdiction of the DeHays/Pretzels case involving an agent’s duty to disclose from the Court of Appeals to the Indiana Supreme...
New Orleans/Hammond Agent Suspended
Sep 9 2003 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley announced the Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators have served Heather Lynn Blair Barras, 26, of 560 Sunset Dr., Slidell, with a cease and desist order and...
Fla. Agents Charged with Selling Millions of Dollars in Unregistered Securities
Sep 9 2003 // Four southwest Florida insurance agents are facing several felony counts for their alleged sale of millions of dollars in unregistered securities to investors throughout Florida and several states. The charges are the...
Applied Systems Selects LiveVault to Ensure Data Protection for Agencies
Sep 9 2003 // LiveVault Corporation(R) (www.livevault.com), a provider of online backup and recovery solutions for business servers, and Applied Systems, Inc. (www.appliedsystems.com), announced a strategic partnership to protect...
Aon Forms World’s Largest Reinsurance Broker
Sep 8 2003 // Chicago’s Aon Corporation has announced the formation of Aon Re Global, which it describes as “the largest reinsurance brokerage firm in the world.” In that case it would take over the top spot from...
How do you Spell Relief’ Surplus Lines
Sep 8 2003 // Premium growth continues unabated for surplus line carriers, the insurance industry’s relief pitchers. They find themselves the beneficiaries of a standard marketplace still skittish about placing risks in lines...
Online CE Education Weighs In
Sep 8 2003 // For most agents and brokers, earning their state-mandated continuing education credits and certificates is undoubtedly a hassle. The earning of CE credits equals time away from the office, time away from the family, and in...
Survey Says Two-Thirds of U.S. Renters Live Without Insurance
Sep 8 2003 // A new independent consumer survey conducted for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) has reportedly found that nearly two-thirds of those living in U.S. rental properties are currently risking...
Alternative Markets Reach New Levels
Sep 8 2003 // “Client, insure thyself!” Well it hasn’t quite reached that point yet, but the hard market has caused insurance buyers to commence an unprecedented search for affordable risk management solutions. Pushed...
OKLA. AGENT’S LICENSE SUSPENDED
Sep 8 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher suspended the license of Gary Kroll, a Tulsa insurance agent accused of misleading new homeowners into purchasing coverage they are not required to carry. Kroll allegedly sent...
FORMER LA. AGENT ARRESTED
Sep 8 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance said a former Hammond insurance agent was arrested and issued a Cease and Desist Order for allegedly misappropriating insurance funds. DOI Fraud Unit investigators served Lee Ponder...
