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Agent Associations Bridge the GAP BetweenTradition and Technology
Jun 5 2000 // The IIAT and IIAA have the arduous task of integrating a century of traditional service with a new evolution of business and technology. And while many things are changing, much remains the same. For over 100 years, small...
Kansas Agency Takes Advantage of Financial Services Reform
Jun 5 2000 // When financial services reform laws were passed late last year, the banshee wails for independent insurance agencies began. Analysts and soothsayers predicted banks, with their mountains of money, would swoop down upon the...
Agent Indemnification: How Not to Get Burned
Jun 5 2000 // Once in a blue moon, the Supreme Court of Texas decides a case that squarely pertains to insurance agents. On April 20, 2000, Justice Alberto Gonzales, writing for a unanimous court, decided an odd one, with potential...
How Two Agents Declared Independence
Jun 5 2000 // With all of the attention being placed on mergers and clusters by independent insurance agencies trying to survive decreasing commissions and increasing costs, it’s easy to forget that there are still people out...
Fitzhugh & Co. Agency Sells to Former National Lloyds COO
Jun 5 2000 // One of Texas’ oldest insurance agencies, created by one of the founding fathers of the association now known as the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas, has been sold by the founder’s 83-year-old grandson,...
goapply.com To Host Independent Insurance Agent
May 31 2000 // goapply.com, a fully transactional financial services web site, will host web sites for insurance agents nationwide. Agents will be provided with goapply.com’s menu of products and the opportunity to participate in...
A Good Idea Takes Off: Young Agents Celebrates 25 Years
May 29 2000 // Back in the mid ’70s, Gail Murrell, Dennis Kristan and Fred Baumgarden-after an initial introduction via the telephone-met at Baumgarden’s house to kick around the idea of forming a Young Agents Committee...
Frazier Finds Ultimate Success as ‘Small Agent in a Small Town’
May 29 2000 // In his nearly 50 years in the insurance industry, George Frazier never expected to receive an award from the President of the United States. That the President would be his boyhood friend from Arkansas, Bill Clinton, was...
Latin American Agents Assoc. Gathers for Inaugural Trade Fair
May 29 2000 // The Latin American Agents Association (LAAA) will hold its first annual trade fair, “La Feria de Seguros,” on June 2-4 in Los Angeles County. LAAA first came together in January 1999 in order to provide...
Lloyd’s To Adopt New Standards For Brokers – Opening London Market
May 25 2000 // Last October Lloyd’s produced a working document entitled “Developing Broker Relationships,” which proposed sweeping changes in the accreditation and regulation of Lloyd’s brokers. Now the results...
Royal & SunAlliance U.S. Nonstandard Auto Expanding Internet Site
May 23 2000 // The personal insurance division of Royal & SunAlliance USA has successfully launched Orion AutoLink, its web-based agency interface for nonstandard auto insurance products, in 23 states where those products, marketed...
The Hartford Makes Plans to Roll Out SEMCI to Commercial, Personal Lines Agencies
May 23 2000 // Beginning in June, The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. will begin providing agencies with the ability to complete applications and receive and accept binding insurance quotes in real time through their agency...
Missouri Passes Reciprocal Agent Licensing Bill; Legislative Session Ends
May 23 2000 // Missouri has become just the second state this year to pass legislation streamlining insurance producer licensing, action that 27 other states must take by November 2002 to meet a federal mandate. The Missouri legislature...
Federal Agents Raid Insurance Offices in Four States
May 22 2000 // Six insurance businesses in four states have been searched by federal agents looking for evidence of fraud involving viatical settlements. Agencies in Lexington, Ky., Grand Rapids and Byron, Mich., Lorain and Loveland,...
InsureConnection.com Launches Site; Aims to Connect Agents and Consumers
May 22 2000 // InsureConnection.com has launched its new site for insurance shoppers, allowing online consumers to compare personal insurance quotes from a variety of companies. Quotes are currently available for life, auto and property,...
Summit Bancorp Forms New Jersey’s Largest Brokerage
May 17 2000 // Summit Bancorp has formed Summit Insurance Advisors, a consolidation of several long-established New Jersey-based insurance brokerage and consulting organizations—Meeker Sharkey Financial Group, W.M. Ross & Co.,...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUTOMATION: The Past, Present and Future of the Industry
May 15 2000 // In 1981, IBM introduced its personal computer (PC) for use in the home, office and schools. Prior to that time, there had been several MS-DOS compatible personal computers that ran DOS programs. As computers became more...
Data Mining vs. Privacy
May 15 2000 // Trolling for new business leads has been the bane of insurance agents for decades. Electronic data mining has eased the pain, but there are many gray areas as the call for consumer privacy grows louder. It was a bet with a...
Online Certificate Systems Reap Benefits for Agents and Consumers
May 15 2000 // Large commercial insurance agencies, issuing perhaps tens of thousands of certificates of insurance per year, often face a dilemma: how can the process be made more efficient and effective? However, technological...
Texas Independent Agents to Gather in Dallas for IIAT ConventionSpecial tracks for young agents, C
May 15 2000 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ annual convention kicks off June 8-10 at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas. The opening day will include a full lineup of innovative and practical workshops presented by...
