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Goapply.com Names Laguna Niguel Insurance Agent as Chairman
Apr 13 2000 // Internet insurance provider goapply.com has named Jim Brakke chairman of the board. Brakke is president of Laguna Niguel-based Brakke-Schafnitz, Orange County’s largest homeowner and auto insurance agency with 65...
SAFECO Launches High-Risk Auto Program in Texas
Apr 10 2000 // SAFECO has launched a new high-risk auto product in Texas called insurQuest, offering agents a multi-tiered compensation program including fee commissions. “With insurQuest, SAFECO’s agents who sell customers...
Bricks and Mortar Agencies Clicking to Compete
Apr 10 2000 // Higginbotham & Associates, Arthur J. Gallagher make dash for the Internet. Being web accessible will be an absolute necessity for insurance agencies and brokerages in the next few years. So says Rusty Reid, president...
PEOs Change Focus by Courting Agents as Partners, not Customers
Apr 10 2000 // As much as 10 years ago, independent insurance agents were being courted by professional employer organizations (PEOs), which viewed the small structure of agents’ offices as ripe for their human resources...
FREE AGENT SITES
Apr 10 2000 // BenefitMall.com, an online exchange for small business employee group benefits programs, is now providing free Internet home page capabilities to all U.S. licensed small group insurance brokers. The free offering will...
Negligent Misrepresentation-Part I
Apr 10 2000 // A primer on how negligence differs from fraud, what constitutes negligence and how Texas law applies For a century and half, or so, tort law was divided into business torts and personal injury. Business torts includes such...
IIAA Study Says Consumers Want It All, All The Time
Apr 5 2000 // Consumers and insurance agents view things differently, according to a recent study. Personal lines buyers, 87 percent of those polled, want 24-hour customer service from their carrier, and 85 percent say having...
FirstFed Acquires Two Agencies
Apr 3 2000 // FirstFed Insurance Agency, which is part of FirstFed America Bancorp. Inc., has acquired Smith-Cochrane Insurance Agency and All Risk Insurance Agency, both of Swansea, Massachusetts. Frank Smith, the agency principal for...
WORKERS’ COMP MARKET OVERVIEW
Apr 3 2000 // CALIFORNIA STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS By Sky Barnhart “After five years of product being given away, it’s a crazy, crazy market, and it’s put a lot of people on the producers’ side out of...
AMS Users’ Group Urges Members to ‘Get in the Game’
Apr 3 2000 // In the high-energy environment of the Las Vegas strip, members of the AMS Users’ Group were presented with a host of educational and networking opportunities at its 24th National Conference held March 12-14 at...
Australia Juggles Mergers & Disasters
Apr 3 2000 // Driven in part by 1999’s particularly poor results, and perhaps encouraged by the recent mega-merger announcements from Europe (CGU-Norwich Union and Deutsche Bank-Dresdner Bank), Australia’s insurance/...
Agents Play Intrinsic Role in Online Workers’ Comp Transactions
Apr 3 2000 // While online sales of personal lines become increasingly common, there is still a perception that certain commercial lines pose a more difficult sell. Yet with an unofficial figure estimating the market for commercial...
Kenny Waldt is Banking on his Future
Apr 3 2000 // Meet Kenny Waldt, independent agent from down there in Houston. When I last checked in, back in November, he was toying with selling his $1.2 million revenue agency to a bank. Feeling pretty righteous about the value of...
Massachusetts Agent Sentenced for Fraud
Mar 30 2000 // A Massachusetts insurance agent was sentenced to three years probation and a fine of $40,000 Wednesday for his role in a in a plan to reduce workers’ comp insurance premiums for a rubbish collection company owned by...
YouZoom.com Sweetens the Pot for Calif. Consumers
Mar 28 2000 // In its campaign to attract more consumers to its site, YouZoom.com is offering California consumers a chance an all expense paid trip to Hawaii. Consumers that go their site and follow the 1-2-3 prompt to a local...
Allstate N.J. Appoints 1st Exclusive Agent In 25 Years
Feb 3 2000 // Citing dramatic changes in the New Jersey auto insurance marketplace due to implementation of auto insurance reform, Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company (ANJ) today announced the appointment of Patricia Egberts, the...
