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IIABA Asks Supreme Court to Hear W.Va. Insurance Regulation Case
May 9 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America announced that it has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in which the lower court ruled that West...
PIANJ Offers Suggestions to Help Counter State’s Auto Insurance Availability Crisis
May 8 2003 // Following the recent hearings on reforming New Jersey’s auto insurance coverage regulations, the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. suggested that the problem with auto insurance availability stems from...
Louisiana Shuts Down Metairie Agent
May 7 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance closed the operations of a Metairie insurance agent (producer) on accusations of forgery and misappropriation of insurance premiums. It was the third such shutdown of an agent’s...
IIABA to Launch Summer TV Ad Blitz for Trusted Choice
May 6 2003 // A Trusted Choice(SM) TV advertising campaign that will feature more than 300 spots on such national networks as NBC, CNN and ESPN is scheduled to begin June 9 and continue through June 29. Three commercials — one each...
CE RELIEF FOR ACTIVE DUTY AGENTS
May 5 2003 // Both Oklahoma and Louisiana are offering relief to insurance agents serving on active duty with the U.S. armed forces in Iraq. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley and Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll...
Getting the Percentages Right in Surplus Lines
May 5 2003 // I was standing at the ballpark watching the local minor league baseball team take batting practice before a game. My son was along for the insurance company-sponsored evening, and we were out along the third-base line in...
Giles Looks at MGAs As He Prepares to Step Down
May 5 2003 // Outgoing AAMGA president Rob Giles sat down with Insurance Journal recently to discuss the association, managing general agents and his term as president, among other things. Giles, president of Wisconsin-based Midwest...
Full Speed Ahead
May 5 2003 // A year ago, Lloyd’s course was “steady as she goes,” following the enormous losses of Sept. 11, but with the appointment of a new chairman last November, Lord Peter Levene of Portsoken, coupled with a...
Full Speed Ahead
May 5 2003 // A year ago, Lloyd’s course was “steady as she goes,” following the enormous losses of Sept. 11, but with the appointment of a new chairman last November, Lord Peter Levene of Portsoken, coupled with a...
A Good CSR is Hard to Find
May 5 2003 // It’s no secret that these days CSRs oftentimes are in contact with clients far more than an agent or producer is, and therefore, are crucial to the agency’s success. The role of the CSRs has evolved over the...
Putting Business Intelligence to Work
May 5 2003 // Business transpires in the Information Age. Although these times offer the most networked, data enriched progression ever in history, many smaller to midsize insurance companies are still using mainframe processing to...
Covering All the Bases with the Help of Surplus Lines
May 5 2003 // I was standing at the ballpark watching the local minor league baseball team take batting practice before a game. My son was along for the insurance company-sponsored evening, and we were out along the third-base line in...
The Challenging Future Requires Your Attention
May 5 2003 // While the hard market continues to support current rate levels, there is increasing turmoil within our industry. Is there any doubt that major changes are on the horizon? After all, who can predict the timing of the hard...
Giles Looks at MGAs As He Prepares to Step Down
May 5 2003 // Outgoing AAMGA president Rob Giles sat down with Insurance Journal recently to discuss the association, managing general agents and his term as president, among other things. Giles, president of Wisconsin-based Midwest...
Zurich N.A. Announces New Download Capability
May 5 2003 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich North America’s Small Business unit has announced a new download capability that gives agents and brokers access to Zurich direct bill commission data. This service is available to...
Florida Agent Gives Up Licenses
May 2 2003 // A Palm Harbor, Fla. man has surrendered his insurance licenses after allegedly falsely obtaining and misappropriating insurance premiums from St. Petersburg Junior College for more than seven years. According to the...
Louisiana Agent Faces Fraud Charges
May 2 2003 // The Louisiana Insurance Department shut down the business of a Shreveport, La. insurance agent in the second such action by the department in as many days. According to Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley, the agent was...
American Wholesale Insurance Group Acquires Seaboard Underwriters Inc.
May 2 2003 // American Wholesale Insurance Group (www.amwins.com) has completed the acquisition of Seaboard Underwriters, Inc., a provider of insurance solutions for the transportation industry. Seaboard operates as a managing general...
NYSID Reports Arrest of Former Insurance Broker; Kept $40,000 in Premiums
May 2 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes announced that a joint investigation, with the assistance of the Rackets Bureau of the Brooklyn DA’s...
Travelers Launches Policy Download Capability for Agents with Boat, Yacht Policies
May 1 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty is now offering its independent agents an Internet batch download system for boat and yacht insurance policies. With this new capability, agencies do not need to re-key policy information into...
