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Aon Pulls Down $178 Million in Fourth Quarter
Feb 13 2003 // Aon Corp.’s fourth-quarter net income soared and the company appears to have made a stunning recovery from the impact of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. The Chicago-based insurance brokerage...
E.L.M. Insurance Announces New Agents E&O Program
Feb 13 2003 // E.L.M. Insurance Brokers recently announced a new errors & omissions program for insurance agents in California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Kansas and Wyoming. Managing general agents...
Pacific Associates Joins United Agencies
Feb 12 2003 // Garden Grove, Calif.-based Pacific Associates Insurance Agency will join United Agencies’ group of affiliated agencies. Pacific Associates Insurance Agency is owned and operated by Gene Sokolski and Sergio...
Oklahoma Agents Set to Tango
Feb 12 2003 // The Independent Agents of Oklahoma invites agencies to send their whole office staff to a half-day workshop, “Teamwork and Tangos…it Takes Two.” The workshop, to be held Feb. 18 from 1-5 p.m. at the IIAOK...
Gallagher Acquires Kentucky and Seattle Agencies
Feb 11 2003 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired W. E. Kingsley Co. Inc. of Lexington, Ky., and McRory & Co. and Harman & McRory Co., both of Seattle, Wash. The Itasca, Ill.-based brokerage did not disclose terms of...
IIABA’s Virtual Univ. Offering New Sales Skills Programs to Ind. Agents, Brokers
Feb 10 2003 // The Big “I” Virtual University (VU) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) is now offering Richardson QuickSkills™: a four-star rated portfolio of online sales skills programs...
Exclusive Agents Feel the Squeeze
Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...
Trusted Choice National Televised Ad Campaign Debuts
Feb 10 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIABA) have unveiled their national ad campaign for Trusted ChoiceSM, with television commercials appearing on the nation’s prominent cable news channels: CNN, MSNBC, FOX...
The Evolving Character of Technology Outsourcing
Feb 10 2003 // Perhaps it’s time to replace the word “outsourcing” with a new term. This might be especially appropriate for some of the technology outsourcing options available to the insurance industry today. To some,...
Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...
LOUISIANA AGENT BOOKED
Feb 10 2003 // A Slidell, La. insurance agent was charged on numerous counts of theft and misappropriation. According to acting Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley, Nathaniel Durant, was arrested at his home in Slidell by the...
IIATC TRADEFEST 2003 IS ON
Feb 10 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Tarrant County will hold its annual TRADEFEST on Feb. 18 at the Woodhaven Country Club in Fort Worth. The theme for this year’s event is “Mardi Gras” and attendees are...
Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...
Exclusive Agents Feel the Squeeze
Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...
The Evolving Character of Technology Outsourcing
Feb 10 2003 // Perhaps it’s time to replace the word “outsourcing” with a new term. This might be especially appropriate for some of the technology outsourcing options available to the insurance industry today. To some,...
Agency Business Systems Notes Interface with WinFSC
Feb 7 2003 // Agency Business Systems (www.agencybusys.com) announced an intelligent interface with WinFSC, a comparative rating system. ABS Agency Builder is a Microsoft Windows based agency management system designed and priced to...
Near North to Sell Brokerage Operations to Chicago Investment Firm
Feb 7 2003 // Chicago-based Near North National Group owner Michael Segal will sell his firm’s insurance brokerage operations to Frontenac Co., a private equity investment firm also based in Chicago. Segal, under federal...
Genesis Technology Group Signs Agreement With Chinese Insurance Broker
Feb 5 2003 // Florida-based Genesis Technology Group, Inc. (GETC) has announced the signing of an agreement with Shanghai Dongda Insurance Brokers Company, Limited (Dongda) in Shanghai, China, that provides for GTEC to represent Dongda...
Silverstein Spokesman Replies to Swiss Re Comments; Calls them ‘Cynical, Manipulative’
Feb 5 2003 // Howard Rubenstein, a spokesman for Larry Silverstein, responded to Swiss Re’s press release of Feb. 4, that criticized Silverstein in his attempt to collect insurance money from the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World...
Louisiana Agent Booked on Multiple Charges
Feb 4 2003 // Acting Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley confirmed that a Monroe, La. insurance agent was arrested as a part of an ongoing statewide crackdown on insurance fraud being conducted by the La. Department of...
