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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...
Ark. ‘Young Agent of the Year’ Receives CRM Designation
Feb 4 2003 // Meadors and Adams, an independent insurance agency in Little Rock, Ark., announced that one of the firm’s agents, Robert Lee, has received the designation of Certified Risk Manager (CRM). Certified Risk Managers...
PIANY President Points to Producers Role in Implementing Federal Terrorism Risk Act
Feb 3 2003 // David Isenberg, president of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc., also testified at hearings considering the implementation of the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, telling the Assembly...
IIANY February 4 Legislative Day Presents “Window of Opportunity”
Jan 31 2003 // More than 200 members of the Independent Insurance Agents Association of New York are set to meet with the state’s legislators in Albany at the Empire State Plaza next Monday, February 4, to seek solutions to...
Progressive’s Referrals Program Hits 50,000 Independent Agent Sales Mark
Jan 31 2003 // Independent agents using Ohio-based Progressive Insurance’s customized referrals program, ProLeads, have sold 50,000 new insurance policies representing at least $40 million in premiums since May 2001, according to...
Assurex Global Adds Four New Broker Partners
Jan 29 2003 // Assurex Global, the owner operated risk management and commercial insurance brokerage group, announced further expansion, as it accepted Ecuaprimas Cia. Ltda. of Guayaquil, Ecuador – Risk Solutions Limited of...
IVANS Notes General Availability of IVANS WebSEMCI with Transformation Station Integration for AMS AfW Agents
Jan 28 2003 // IVANS, Inc. announced the general availability of IVANS WebSEMCI(TM) with Transformation Station(TM) integration for AMS AfW agents. Agents can now download this software from the AMS Web site to conduct business with...
ACORD, ConfirmNet Provides Agents with Online Certificates of Insurance
Jan 28 2003 // ConfirmNet Corporation, a supplier of online solutions for insurance certificate management, has been selected by ACORD to offer independent agents a free online tool to create and deliver certificates of insurance. The...
Risk Retention Groups Owning Up to Success
Jan 27 2003 // Due to the restricted coverages available in the market today, risk retention groups (RRGs) have experienced a significant amount of rapid growth over the past year. At a time when the industry is facing what is perhaps...
PIANY Announces Four Achievement Awards at MetroRAP Meeting
Jan 27 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State recognized the achievements of four insurance professionals at its recent Metropolitan Regional Awareness Program (MetroRAP), held last Thursday at the New York Marriot...
How to Find New Markets
Jan 27 2003 // For the past 23 years, the Insurance Journal has published the annual Directory of Excess, Surplus and Specialty Markets. This issue is a resource for independent agents and brokers to help them find the markets they need....
IIABA’s 27th ANNUAL NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE CONF. SET FOR WASHINGTON, D.C.
Jan 27 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s (IIABA’s) 27th Annual National Legislative Conference will be held April 2-4 at The Capital Hilton in downtown Washington, D.C. The event will bring...
Tarzana, Calif. Broker Pleads No Contest
Jan 27 2003 // Alfred Galoustian, 34, of Tarzana, Calif., pled no contest to two felony counts of grand theft. Galoustian was sentenced to 30 days in County Jail, 240 hours of community service, three years of summary probation, and...
How to Find New Markets
Jan 27 2003 // For the past seven years, the Insurance Journal has published the annual Directory of Excess, Surplus and Specialty Markets. This issue is a resource for independent agents and brokers to help them find the markets they...
COMING UP-IIAT SEMINAR, LEGE DAY
Jan 27 2003 // More than 350 of the state’s most progressive and influential agency principals and managers will gather for the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ Joe Vincent Management Seminar & Big I Legislative...
