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LAAA JOINS NAAA
Sep 3 2001 // The National Auto Agents Alliance at its Board meeting in Atlanta, Ga., accepted an application for affiliation from the Latin American Agents Association. The LAAA is a three-year-old organization headquartered in Los...
Are Producers Always the Agents of Insurers’
Sep 3 2001 // Texas has a statute, section 21.02 of the Insurance Code, which makes insurance intermediaries the legal agents of carriers for many purposes. Lots of people believe producers are always the agents of insurers with respect...
Attempts at Workers’ Comp Reform Could Hurt Agents, Small Business
Aug 30 2001 // According to Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), a workers’ compensation bill moving its way through the California Legislature doesn’t go far enough in attempts to reduce costs to reform the...
Latin American Agents Association Joins the National Auto Agents Alliance
Aug 29 2001 // At its Board meeting in Atlanta, Ga., the National Auto Agents Alliance (NAAA) accepted an application for affiliation from the Latin American Agents Association (LAAA). The LAAA is a three-year-old organization...
American Agents Alliance to Stir Up Ideas at 2001 Conference & Expo
Aug 27 2001 // A two-day “Agency Management Training Camp” is among the highlights of the American Agents Alliance 2001 Conference & Expo, to be held Sept. 19-23 at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage,...
It’s Fire Season: Time to Brush Up on Coverage and Prevention
Aug 27 2001 // Take an influx of homeowners moving into what was once open land, add a rainy winter which has fueled the growth of brush and vegetation, and you have a potential recipe for disaster. As of Aug. 15, close to 300 wildfires...
Broker Trucks on Down to Jail
Aug 27 2001 // North Hollywood insurance broker Shahin Sean Pelaseyed was sentenced to 180 days in county jail and five years probation by a Van Nuys District Superior Court. The sentencing comes six months after Pelaseyed pled no...
Booz-Allen Survey Reveals Gap Between Internet Insurance Offerings and Customer Needs August 24, 20
Aug 24 2001 // Despite explosive growth in traffic, many insurance Internet sites fail to measure up to competing bank and brokerage sites, according to a recent eInsurance study by Booz-Allen & Hamilton, a worldwide management and...
InsureZone Product Gets Co-Marketing Endorsements from IIAA Organizations in 5 States August 23, 20
Aug 23 2001 // InsureZone, the “clicks and mortar” insurance agency that offers access to insurance products through multiple channels, announced that AgentSecure, its web-based market-access program for small and rural...
St. Paul Educates Boston Brokers/Agents on
Aug 22 2001 // Kae Lovaas, president of The St. Paul Companies Global Technology Underwriting unit, told Boston-area agents and brokers about e-commerce risks at a seminar on Tuesday. She pointed out that traditional insurance policies...
Silver Plume Introduces Sage Reference Tool for Commercial P&C Agents
Aug 22 2001 // Insurance Reference Systems Inc. (Silver Plume), an AMS company, announced the introduction of Sage, a web-based, intelligent research tool that uses an insurance-specific, Internet-style engine to search its library of...
Texas Homeowners Market Shaken by Mold
Aug 20 2001 // After the decision by Farmers Insurance to put the brakes on writing new homeowners policies in Texas beginning Aug. 15, the market in Texas experienced an upheaval, according to the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas...
Microsoft’s ‘Virtual Team’ Takes Insurance to the Fast Track
Aug 20 2001 // It’s the twelfth round, and the technology industry has been badly battered—but it’s still in the ring and on its feet. Participants in the new economy that have held on thus far are forging ahead, priorities...
e-Business Moving Slowly but Steadily For Wholesalers
Aug 20 2001 // The insurance industry is beginning to utilize technology to more efficiently conduct business, but that integration is a long, slow process, according to a panel of wholesalers and market leaders. Shand Morahan &...
The Info Management Challenge
Aug 20 2001 // One burdensome fact of professional life for agents is that the industry may be the unrivaled champion when it comes to accessing and maintaining consumer information. This information can come from a variety of sources...
PIANJ Defends Terminated Agent
Aug 17 2001 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced the Insurance Department has finalized regulations protecting the financial privacy of Pennsylvania insurance consumers. With this new regulation, insurance...
Cincinnati Agent’s License Revoked
Aug 17 2001 // The insurance license of agent Stephen Donahue of Cincinnati was revoked as was the resident agency license of Donahue Securities Inc. of Cincinnati by Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington. Earlier in the...
Becoming a Top Producer Made Simple with
Aug 17 2001 // Independent agents now have access to an informative guide about finding, hiring, training and compensating excellent producers, thanks to the newest offering of the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA)...
1,800+ Independent Agents Using Travelers’ Web-based Automation System
Aug 14 2001 // Travelers’ announced that in just a few months since its inception, more than 1,800 agents are using ATLAS3, Travelers’ Internet-based automation system. About 165 agents were piloting the system when ATLAS3...
Report Says Top Insurers Embracing Web for Agent and Policyholder Communication
Aug 14 2001 // Top U.S. insurers are turning to the web to reduce communication costs with both agents and policyholders, says a new report titled “U.S. Insurance & the Web: An Overview” published by Celent...
