Latest Agencies Headlines
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The Hartford Offers Agencies Technology Support
Jan 16 2001 // The Hartford has developed new resources to help independent agents find the latest automation solutions to their business challenges. As part of its strategy, The Hartford placed 17 business technology solution managers...
Transamerica Makes Executive Appointments
Jan 16 2001 // Transamerica Insurance & Investment Group has named five insurance industry executives to key positions within the organization. William Tate has been elected as senior vice president and chief marketing officer for...
After 300 Years, Lloyd’s Opens Its Doors to Brokers Worldwide
Jan 15 2001 // Confirming plans announced in a “Discussion Document” in October 1999, Lloyd’s officially opened its doors to brokers from outside the London community for the first time in its 300-year history....
New Company, Ajasent, Created for Independent Agencies
Jan 12 2001 // Internetworking Resources Inc. has created a new company, Ajasent, Inc., in an effort to provide outsourced, Internet-based agency management technology solutions at reduced costs to independent agencies. Ajasent provides...
Community First Acquires Wyoming, Minnesota Agencies
Jan 8 2001 // Community First Bankshares, has acquired insurance agencies in Wyoming and Minnesota through its affiliate, Community First Insurance Agencies, Inc. The acquisition of Barnard Insurance Agency, with offices in Casper and...
Minnesota Agents Association Floats Legislative Collective Bargaining Draft; Seeks Input
Jan 8 2001 // In 1900, Texas independent agents approved a plan to unionize. The plan eventually faltered at the national level, but now, more than a century later, Minnesota agents are floating a similar idea. The board of directors of...
Who Owns A Customer’
Jan 8 2001 // The American economic scene is characterized by at least three general trends. There may be more. First, many large businesses are cutting back. Almost every day one reads in the paper that some huge, well-known...
A Legislative Preview for the 77th Session of the Texas Congress
Jan 8 2001 // Now that the presidential election saga has come to a close and a new governor and lieutenant governor are in place, the new guard at the Texas capitol has begun making decisions and appointments for the upcoming 77th...
Welcome to our First Ever
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
Vesta Insurance Financial Overhaul Includes Acquisitions, Company Stock for Agents
Jan 5 2001 // Vesta Insurance Group Inc. is planning four separate transactions, the centerpiece of which is two acquisitions that will enable Vesta to offer a wider range of personal lines insurance products. Vesta also intends to...
Former Ohio Agent Indicted
Jan 4 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington announced that the Department’s Enforcement Division recently completed an investigation that led to the indictment of former insurance agent Larry C. Braun,...
Former Calif. Agent Arrested on Warrant Charging 127 Criminal Violations
Jan 4 2001 // Following a six-month investigation, former insurance agent Charles Stanley Tigner was arrested on a Tulare County Superior Court warrant. Among the 127 criminal violations charged in the warrant are insurance fraud, grand...
Reminder from the CDI: Rental Car Companies Must License Their Agents
Jan 4 2001 // Monday, Jan. 1, 2001, was the deadline for rental car companies that offer or sell insurance to be licensed by the California Department of Insurance as an insurance agent, broker or as a rental car agent. The CDI has a...
Pennsylvania Pioneers Drug/Alcohol Rehabilitative Program For Agents
Jan 3 2001 // Pennsylvania recently became the first state in the nation to use a rehabilitative program for chemically dependent insurance agents and brokers called “Agents Helping Agents”. Pennsylvania Insurance...
Former Agents Sue Allstate Insurance Co.
Dec 21 2000 // Five former Allstate Insurance Co. agents who worked in Florida, Georgia and Oregon, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the insurer, seeking payment for three years of overtime wages. According to a report from...
Hartford Expands Availability of Web-based Bond Quotation
Dec 20 2000 // Hartford Fidelity & Bonding, a unit of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., is expanding availability of 1StepSurety, its web-based real-time bond quotation and issuance service, to insurance agents through...
Lloyd’s Begins Acceptance of New Broker Applications
Dec 20 2000 // For the first time in more than 300 years Lloyd’s has opened its market to insurance intermediaries around the world. In line with announced plans it began sending applications to over 150 brokers who have expressed...
Minnesota Agents Draft Collective Bargaining Legislation
Dec 20 2000 // The board of directors of the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents has drafted legislation for possible introduction in the state legislature this January that would permit agents to collectively bargain the terms and...
MetLife Auto Home Enhances Agent Contracts
Dec 18 2000 // MetLife Auto & Home has made several enhancements to its Independent Agency Agreement. The contract changes will be introduced in 2001. The revisions provide for the company to defend, indemnify, and hold the agent...
CDI Forms Producer Licensing Bureau Toll-Free Hotline
Dec 15 2000 // Insurance Commissioner Harry Low announced the formation of a California Department of Insurance Producer Licensing Bureau toll-free hotline available for producers with licensing concerns. The new hotline is operational...
