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California Reduces Licensing Fee for Insurance Agents, Brokers, Adjusters
Jan 28 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced a number of fee reductions resulting in $10.3 million in annual savings, including a 6 percent fee reduction for more than 300,000 licensed insurance agents,...
Baca Joins WIAA Insurance Services
Jan 28 2009 // Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based WIAA Insurance Services, the agency arm of Western Insurance Agents Association (WIAA), appointed Michelle Baca executive sales representative. Baca spent much of her career in business...
ACE Europe Launches Insurance, Risk Management for Mid-size Firms
Jan 27 2009 // ACE Europe has announced the launch of “ACE Evolve,” which it describes as a “coordinated insurance and risk management solution for mid-sized companies with overseas subsidiaries or assets. ACE Evolve...
Florida Puts Brakes on Agent Accused of Not Placing Truckers’ Insurance
Jan 27 2009 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is urging the commercial trucking industry and the public to provide any information that may assist the Department of Financial Services’ ongoing criminal investigation into...
Main Street America Unveils New System for Quoting Personal Lines
Jan 27 2009 // Jacksonville, Florida-based insurer The Main Street America Group has introduced Main Street Station for Personal Lines — a new quoting and policy issuance system for its independent insurance agents in Maine,...
Acuity to Add New Mexico Coverage for Independent Agents
Jan 27 2009 // Acuity of Sheboygan, Wis., announced it will begin writing business in New Mexico. The expansion into the New Mexico marketplace is planned for mid-2009. Acuity is a property and casualty insurer that operates in 18...
State Farm Pulling Out of Florida Property Insurance Market
Jan 27 2009 // Florida is losing its largest property insurance company. State Farm Florida Insurance announced today it is beginning the process that will allow it to non-renew policies and halt all sales of homeowners or other...
North Dakota Agents Report More Interest in Flood Insurance in Fargo
Jan 27 2009 // North dakota insurance agents are seeing more Fargo homeowners interested in flood insurance, after a winter of heavy snow and forecasts of spring flooding Ken Kraft is an American Family Insurance agent in south Fargo. He...
Region’s Best Practices Agencies
Jan 26 2009 // Each year since 1993, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America and Regan Consulting study leading agencies and brokers in the country. After the 2008 study, a total of 189 agencies from around the country...
Indiana Pulls Insurance Agent License of Pilot in Florida Jail
Jan 26 2009 // An administrative law judge in Indianapolis on Friday permanently revoked the Indiana insurance license of a financial adviser accused of bilking investors before trying to fake his death in a Florida plane crash. Judge...
South Carolina Blues Opens Retail Insurance Store Staffed by Agents
Jan 26 2009 // South Carolina BlueCross and BlueShield has opened its first retail insurance store in the state. The new store opened last Friday in Mount Pleasant. The store offers health insurance policies for both adults and children....
Study: Recession Pressuring Middle Market to Value Price Over Service
Jan 26 2009 // As the U.S. economic slowdown deepens, middle-market companies are reassessing their relationships with insurance brokers and adopting a more bottom-line approach to securing insurance coverage. Historically, middle-market...
New York Insurance Agent Charged in Bank Heist
Jan 26 2009 // A part-time insurance agent was arrested in his Rockefeller Center office and charged with pulling off a knifepoint bank robbery in the suburbs and making his getaway in a luxury sport utility vehicle, police said. Edward...
Declarations
Jan 25 2009 // Name Change “While this name change reflects our vision for today and the future, it also brings into focus our long and rich history in this state.” —The Springfield-based Professional Independent Insurance...
Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority? Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution...
Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority? Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution...
Don’t Cheap Out on the Training
Jan 25 2009 // And Other Lessons from High-Performing Agencies Use your agency management system to the max. Measure your productivity. Communicate consistently and effectively with your staff, customers and carriers. And above all,...
Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority? Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution...
People
Jan 25 2009 // Risk management and insurance services provider IMA of Texas Inc. announced additions to its Health Care, Employee Benefits and Surety departments. Michael J. Jacoby has been hired as vice president and national director...
Even Best Practices Agencies Struggle To Grow in Soft Market
Jan 25 2009 // Revenue Growth Proves Challenge; Hiring New Producers Remains Priority The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (the Big “I”) recently released its annual “Best Practices Study,” a...
