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Tennessee Insurance Agent No Stranger to NCAA Tournament
Mar 22 2010 // As the NCAA men’s basketball tournament tipped off, one could say that Cookeville, Tennessee insurance agent Gary Maxwell had the best seat in the house. No, he wasn’t sitting courtside or in a luxury box of...
The National Alliance Appoints Weidert Regional Relationship Manager
Mar 22 2010 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has appointed Rob Weidert regional relationship manager. Weidert is a licensed agent and broker in California and New York. He began his insurance career more...
Agents: What’s the Best Business Move You Have Ever Made?
Mar 22 2010 // For one agent, it was relocating to a more upscale location in the heart of downtown. It helped him attract more professional clients and employees. For another, it was investing in the very best agency management system,...
How to Use Lead Scoring to Prioritize Lead Follow-Up
Mar 22 2010 // If you’re not living in a cave, you’ve probably heard about the benefits of lead scoring. But what you probably don’t know is that there are different types of lead scoring. There are essentially three...
Insurance Agents, U.S. Chamber Unhappy with Healthcare Reform
Mar 22 2010 // Independent insurance agents are among those today expressing their disappointment with the health care reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The House approved the Senate-passed bill and also approved a...
Atlanta’s ‘Only Live Insurance Agent’ Having Fun
Mar 22 2010 // He bills himself as Atlanta’s “only live insurance agent” – and he brings insurance to life on his Atlanta Insurance Live video blog and Web site at atlantainsurancelive.com. Insurance entrepreneur...
People
Mar 22 2010 // Cheryl Celcer has joined wholesale insurance provider Swett & Crawford after a nearly 30-year career with The Hartford, in which she held the position of executive select customer sales representative. Celcer will work...
Professional Insurance Agents Name Melancon Legislator of the Year
Mar 19 2010 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has named Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon its 2010 Legislator of the Year. The award was presented March 17 during the 2010 PIA Federal Legislative...
Florida’s Market and How Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 19 2010 // Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker Hull & Co. and Bruce Bowers a big opportunity. “Prior to ’92, there wasn’t much of a need for personal lines in the excess...
Ethics Awareness Month Lesson: Don’t Follow Greed Down the Wrong Path
Mar 19 2010 // Insurance producers should be leery of managers who push them to “find the gray areas to increase the corporate bottom line,” John Borbi warned them recently. Borbi should know. A former financial advisor and...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires California’s Winn & Co. Insurance Brokers
Mar 18 2010 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Winn & Company Insurance Brokers Inc. in Hollister, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1910, Winn & Company is a retail insurance broker...
Winners and Losers Under Dodd Financial Reform Proposal
Mar 17 2010 // U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd introduced his latest bill to overhaul the financial system on Monday. The committee is expected to work on the bill next week and it will likely change dramatically....
Virginia Agents Must Now Print Their Own Producer Licenses
Mar 16 2010 // Virginia’s insurance regulator says it will no longer mail licenses to producers and companies, since they can print the licenses out themselves online. The Virginia State Corporation Commission announced the change...
Property/Casualty Insurers Have Issues with Dodd Financial Reform Bill
Mar 16 2010 // Even though they are largely excluded from the federal financial regulatory overhaul proposed in the Senate, property/casualty insurers say there are some elements they fear could negatively affect them and their...
Young Agents Survey: Why Agents Stand By Their Career Choice
Mar 15 2010 // Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice. A healthy 84 percent of young insurance agents say...
USI Holdings Acquires Business from Seattle Broker RA Bench
Mar 12 2010 // USI Holdings Corp. has reported the closing of the acquisition of the insurance and financial services business of RA Bench, a Seattle, Washington, based wealth management, executive and group employee benefit insurance...
Who’s Worth What in the Independent Agency System? Join IJ’s Survey
Mar 12 2010 // Once again, Insurance Journal is polling insurance agents and brokers nationwide in its annual search to find out who’s worth what in the independent agency system. The 2010 Agency Salary Survey results will be...
How New York Insurance Broker Has Used Social Media
Mar 12 2010 // To the 77 percent of independent insurance agencies that don’t have a social media presence, creating a profile and trying to form “friendships” via a computer can be daunting. Once an agency gets online,...
Florida Insurers Pin Hopes on Broad Bill Passed by Senate Panel
Mar 11 2010 // With the prospects for a controversial rate deregulation bill dimmed by Gov. Charlie Crist’s threat of a veto, the insurance industry is betting on a new wide-ranging insurance proposal to bring some reform to...
Ohio Casualty Introduces New Learning Center for Appointed Agents
Mar 10 2010 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has introduced its comprehensive online Agent Learning Center for its appointed agencies. Ohio Casualty appointed agents can now register for classroom...
