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SIS, IVANS Enter Agreement
Jan 31 2002 // Strategic Insurance Software Inc. (SIS) provider of software and automation services to insurance agencies and carriers has entered into an agreement with IVANS Inc. to enhance agency-carrier policy detail interface by...
Near North Insurance Brokerage Exec Charged with $20M In Fraud
Jan 31 2002 // According to the Chicago Tribune, Michael Segal, CEO of Near North Insurance Brokerage, was arrested on Jan 26 and charged with insurance and mail fraud in a Chicago federal court. The formal complaint alleges that Segal...
Hartford, S.H. Smith to Offer Law Firm Coverage
Jan 30 2002 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has teamed with S. H. Smith & Company of West Hartford, Conn., a leading excess and surplus lines insurance broker, managing general agency and program administrator, to...
CDI Approves Infinity/Leader’s CE Course
Jan 30 2002 // Infinity/Leader Insurance, a member of Great American Insurance Group, has recently been approved by the California Department of Insurance to teach a four-hour continuing education course called “Professional Field...
MarshBerry Announces New Product for Valuing Insurance Agencies
Jan 29 2002 // Owners and managers of insurance agencies can now get an immediate estimate of an agency’s value with Marsh.Berry’s new web-based product — Value Estimator. This on-line product provides the financial...
E&S Lines Basking in the Warm Glow of a Hard Market
Jan 28 2002 // Early in 2000, insurance prices started doing something they had not done in almost 15 years. They began to increase, and they kept growing at a modest pace into the third quarter of 2001, when the events of September 11...
ACT Technology Seminar Now Available Online
Jan 28 2002 // An informative Agents Council for Technology (ACT) seminar on new and innovative agency technology is now available on the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) web site. The online offering is a...
DWL Launches PnC Agent Broker Application
Jan 28 2002 // DWL Incorporated, a provider of Unified Business Services software, has released version 2.0 of DWL Insurance for Property & Casualty Agent/Broker Application. The application is the only one of its kind enabling...
IBA West President Pledges to Serve Diverse Communities
Jan 28 2002 // With the installation of Joseph Hernandez as president, the West Coast’s largest regional trade association of independent agents and insurance brokers will enter a new era where the insurance industry and political...
Rising Prices Hit Commercial Property Market
Jan 28 2002 // Dire predictions have been floating around since September 11 regarding the availability and pricing of insurance coverage for commercial property, largely due to the issues surrounding terrorist exclusions and whopping...
E&S Lines Basking in the Warm Glow of a
Jan 28 2002 // Early in 2000, insurance prices started doing something they had not done in almost 15 years. They began to increase, and they kept growing at a modest pace into the third quarter of 2001, when the events of September 11...
Communicating Effectively with Your Wholesaler
Jan 28 2002 // The managing general agent (MGA) has long been a part of the insurance sales process—but still remains a mystery to many insurance professionals. A working knowledge of MGAs will lead to a beneficial and profitable...
Communicating Effectively with Your Wholesaler
Jan 28 2002 // The managing general agent (MGA) has long been a part of the insurance sales process—but still remains a mystery to many insurance professionals. A working knowledge of MGAs will lead to a beneficial and profitable...
Agents’ Credit-Based Insurance Score Bill Introduced in Missouri
Jan 25 2002 // A bill supported by some Missouri insurance agents that puts certain restrictions on how insurance companies use credit-based insurance scores has been introduced in the House. National Association of Independent Insurers...
Independent Agents Form Loan Alliance with Eastern Bank
Jan 24 2002 // In a move that reverses the “bancassurance” model Independent Insurance Agents in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island can now offer customers an array of automobile, home improvement and other...
IIAA States Its Efforts Have Led to ChoicePoint Decision to End Sales of Agent-Owned Data
Jan 24 2002 // On Jan. 24, the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) released the following statement: “Direct-marketing and consumer-lead-generation service provider ChoicePoint agreed to end data-mining of independent...
AMS User’s Group Unveils Plans for 26th National Conference
Jan 24 2002 // AMS Users’ Group recently unveiled plans for its National Conference, to be held March 21-24, 2002, at the Wyndam Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Scheduled for the four-day conference is a wide variety of education,...
Seminar Offers Opportunities Available to Explore Environmental Issues
Jan 22 2002 // Insurance Skills Center has developed a pair of workshops that address the insurance implications of toxic mold claims and Montrose issues to be offered in several California locations. The four-hour “Mold &...
Insurance Managers, Agents Named to Mo. Industry Advisory Panel
Jan 21 2002 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott B. Lakin named eight insurance company executives and agents to the state agency’s first Industry Advisory Council. Lakin said although insurance industry lobbyists and...
Commercial Insurance Market Index Documents Signs of Market Distress
Jan 17 2002 // According to PR Newswire, the insurance industry is showing the first signs of distress following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with major commercial property/casualty premiums uniformly on the upswing and confusion in...
