Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AGENTSECURE.COM LAUNCHES
Oct 23 2000 // AgentSecure.com has launched, providing agents access to carriers CNA, The Hartford, and Zurich. Rural and suburban agents who may not otherwise meet the volume requirements are now able to offer their customers standard...
Commercial Auto Rates Up; Sector Ripe for Rapid Change
Oct 23 2000 // Someone up above has been listening. How else can one explain the hardening market that has been the subject of thousands of prayers. Both agents and E&S vendors, then, should be doubly excited about the commercial...
Restraining the Departed’
Oct 23 2000 // When Agents Divorce Their Insurance Company Insurance companies and insurance brokerage houses (employers) use a variety of devices to try to prevent departing agents from competing against them. Sometimes smaller agencies...
WCC Online Hires Key Executives
Oct 18 2000 // WCC Online Inc., parent company of the WorkComp.Com resource for agents and brokers, has appointed two key executives: Gene Axtell as Vice President of Technology Services; and Mark Finnegan as Vice President of...
Oregon Revokes Gresham Agent’s License
Oct 16 2000 // Oct. 16, 2000 9:30 a.m. CDT
JD Power’s Auto Insurance Study Goes National, Rates Customer Satisfaction
Oct 16 2000 // After testing the waters last year with its first annual California Auto Insurance Satisfaction Study, J.D. Power & Associates decided to take to the road and make this year’s survey national in...
AgentSecure.com Launches, Provides Access to CNA, The Hartford, Zurich
Oct 10 2000 // AgentSecure.com has launched, providing agents access to carriers CNA, The Hartford, and Zurich. Rural and suburban agents who may not otherwise meet the volume requirements are now able to offer their customers standard...
Utah Agencies Merge
Oct 10 2000 // Bonneville Brokers Inc., based in Murry, has merged with Salt Lake City’s American Insurance & Investment Corp, a 50-year-old agency that specializes in personal and commercial property and casualty insurance....
Southern Calif. Agent Scam Ring Investigated
Oct 9 2000 // A network of insurance agents is under investigation for allegedly taking more than $1 million from 200 Southern California senior citizens, according to a Los Angeles Times report. The alleged scam involved the sale of...
The Pioneering Women of TEXAS: How a generation of insurance women was born
Oct 9 2000 // On June 2, 1944 at 9:30 a.m. in the roof garden of the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, the first meeting of the Insurance Women of Texas was opened by call to order by Mrs. Ruth A. Fredde, president of the Insurance Women of...
An Agent’s Nightmare Continues
Oct 9 2000 // Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a story that appeared in our Sept. 25 issue. The first story described the facts of the case, up to the point of verdict and judgment. This column describes the verdict and...
Survey Reveals Stronger Agency System
Oct 9 2000 // Silicon Valley operatives like to gloat about a shrinking independent agency system. Today there are 42,000 independent agencies in the U.S., down from 46,000 in 1992. Nearly three out of 10 independent agencies have been...
MARINE AGENT BEACHED
Oct 9 2000 // A Kentucky insurance agent and agency have agreed to a $50,000 penalty for selling Texans millions of dollars worth of boat insurance without the special license required for placing business with Lloyd’s of London...
INSURSCAPE SCOUTIN’ FOR AGENTS
Oct 9 2000 // Insurscape.com™, a workers’ compensation underwriting program that provides total services via e-commerce, launched a national web-based workers’ compensation service to select brokers. Insurescape.com...
Playing The Green: Insuring Golf Courses
Oct 9 2000 // It’s a well known fact in the insurance industry that we are also, in large part, the golf industry. Nine times out of 10, a golf tournament will accompany a convention. Want to raise money for charity? Sponsor a...
Red Bluff Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to Bilking His Clients
Oct 4 2000 // David Michael Chene, a former Red Bluff insurance agent pleaded guilty to four felony counts for allegedly duping his former clients into believing that they were investing in legitimate investments backed by State Farm....
ING Canada, Local Brokers Bid For Equisure
Oct 2 2000 // ING Canada, a subsidiary of Holland’s ING Group, and seven Canadian insurance brokers have made a joint bid for all of the shares of Equisure Financial Network, one of Canada’s leading insurance brokers and...
After the Gold Rush: Insurance Dot-Coms Shift increasingly Toward the Agent
Oct 2 2000 // In the “stake-your-claim” environment of Internet insurance, any attempt to define trends and categorize business models can be an exercise in frustration. However, in some ways the dot-com gold rush is slowing...
Independent currents:Survey Says: Agency Systems are Stronger
Oct 2 2000 // Silicon Valley operatives like to gloat about a shrinking independent agency system. Today there are 42,000 independent agencies in the U.S., down from 46,000 in 1992. Nearly three out of 10 independent agencies have been...
Association’s Hard Work Pays Off with Success of NAPSLO 2000
Oct 2 2000 // “There are leaders all over this room—it doesn’t just have to be in politics, because your business requires great leadership,” Former Senator Robert Dole told NAPSLO attendees. “And I think that...
