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Re-Engineering Your Insurance Agency
Jun 1 2009 // Understanding the Importance of Search Engine Optimization A couple times a year, I hear a clunk at my front door and I’m alerted by my barking dog that someone is there. I open the door to find my new Yellow Pages...
Common Insurance Mistakes Can Sink Boaters’ Finances
Jun 1 2009 // As Action on the Water Heats up, Here’s Some Advice Agents Can Offer Clients As boating season starts to heat up once again, independent agents across the country may see clients who are re-evaluating their boat...
State Auto: How a Regional Carrier Weathers the Storms
Jun 1 2009 // CEO Restrepo Talks Cat Losses, Premium Growth and Independent Agents Regional property/casualty insurance companies don’t make headlines like the large institutions. They simply go about their business serving...
McGraw Joins Heffernan Insurance Brokers in Petaluma Office
May 29 2009 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, an independent insurance brokerage firm, announced that Jon McGraw has joined the company as a vice president in its Petaluma (North Bay), Calif., office. McGraw specializes in employee...
Insurance Resources Consultants Names Rohde Executive VP
May 29 2009 // Fair Oaks, Calif.-based Insurance Resources Consultants, a IR Group subsidiary, has named San Diego executive Richard Rohde executive vice president and senior consultant. He will offer strategic planning and operational...
California Commissioner Warns Insurance Agents, Brokers About Scam
May 29 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Poizner warned California licensed insurance agents and brokers to beware of a scam. According to the Department of Insurance, individuals have been reportedly calling licensed insurance...
Michigan Agent Walker Named to Big ‘I’ Executive Committee
May 28 2009 // David Walker of the Hartland Insurance Agency in Hartland, Michigan has been named to the Executive Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA). As an Executive Committee member, Walker...
Surplus Lines Brokers Report No Change in Capacity; Increase in Submissions
May 28 2009 // Catastrophic events, the economy and changes in reinsurance capacity have the greatest impact on the availability and pricing of specialty lines coverage in 2009, according to professionals in the surplus lines...
Insurance Broker Sues AIG Over Business Practice
May 27 2009 // A California insurance broker is suing American International Group, accusing the nation’s largest insurance and financial corporation of engaging in unfair business practices. Insurance broker Linda Harris,...
Combined Agents Names Management Committee; Adds New Agency
May 27 2009 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) elected its 2009 management committee and added its 41st member agency. The new 2009 management committee includes: • Chairman of the Board – Bill Bridges, executive vice...
North Carolina Agent Charged with Murder Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
May 27 2009 // Former North Carolina insurance agent Michael A. Howell has pleaded guilty to 25 counts of embezzlement and is expected to plead guilty to the murder of the state examiner who audited his agency about one year ago. Howell,...
Top 100 Agencies: Deadline to Submit, June 1
May 27 2009 // Insurance Journal is on the search for the nation’s leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Now,...
Heffernan Opens Wrap Up Insurance Solutions in Missouri
May 26 2009 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has appointed Brian Billhartz, Larry Jackson and Cindie Allscheid to establish a new office in Chesterfield, Mo. – Wrap Up Insurance Solutions. Wrap Up Insurance Solutions is a full...
Combined Agents Elects Management Committee and Adds New Member
May 26 2009 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it has elected a new management committee for 2009. In addition, the group has added its 41st member agency – Mr. Insurance Agency Inc. of San...
Top 100 Profile: A Quiet Giant in The Leavitt Group
May 26 2009 // As Insurance Journal prepares for another Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agency List, to be published in our Aug. 3, 2009, magazine, the editors wanted to highlight a few of the current Top 100 agencies. Throughout...
National Insurance Producer Licensing Bill Reintroduced in Congress
May 22 2009 // Federal legislation designed to streamline licensing for insurance agents and brokers operating in multiple states has been reintroduced in Congress. The legislation (HR 2554), the National Association of Registered Agents...
Oklahoma’s Bramlett Receives Big ‘I’ Award for Service to Other Agents
May 22 2009 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) earlier this month awarded the 2008 Sidney O. Smith Award to Bobby Bramlett, president and CEO of the Bramlett Agency in Ardmore, Okla....
2 Kentucky Agents Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
May 22 2009 // Two eastern Kentucky insurance agents and an agency employee have been ordered to pay fines, serve probationary sentences and perform public service work on their guilty pleas in a fraud case. The sentences were given to...
Personality, Good Time Management Are Key to Claims Success
May 22 2009 // With its acquisition in early 2009 of the international businesses of GAB Robins (excluding its UK operations) and the U.S. forensic engineering firm, EFI Global, Cunningham Lindsey became the second largest property...
Garinger, Kohler Join Retail Insurance Broker Signature Select
May 21 2009 // Signature Select LLC, a retail insurance broker subsidiary of The IMA Financial Group Inc., hired Deena Garinger as account manager/account executive for its Denver employee benefits practice, and Howard Kohler as a Denver...
