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The Hartford, Progressive, ABA Team up for Community Bank Program
Jun 2 2008 // The New Alliance Can Handle Banks With up to $5 Billion in Assets but the ‘Sweet Spot’ is up to $2 Billion Agents submitting community bank risks to the new alliance between The Hartford and Progressive should...
Soft Market Tests Program Administrators’ Survival Skills
Jun 2 2008 // It’s Time to Focus Marketing, Upgrade Data, Round Out Business In a recent letter to fellow program administrators, Greg Thompson, CEO of Thompson Insurance Enterprises Inc. and Target Markets Program Administrators...
Ohio Agents Sponsor 2008 Insurance Career Internship Program
May 30 2008 // The Professional Insurance Agents Association of Ohio, Inc. (PIA) Internship Program, recently announced that its 2008 program for insurance industry interns was operational. On May 28 the PIA welcomed 12 interns hosting a...
Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers Names Wells Agent of the Year
May 30 2008 // Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers, a marketing organization consisting of 60 independent agencies located throughout California, selected Kirby Wells as its agent of the year for 2007- 2008.Wells is president of Cordova...
Good Time to Lock in Property Insurance Pricing, Advise Brokers
May 30 2008 // Science and technology are converging with risk management to help insurers negotiate the current hurricane season such that it’s now possible to use short-term hurricane forecasts — as few as 10 days out...
MHBT’s Bowles Receives Leadership Award From Dallas Agents Group
May 29 2008 // Ryan Bowles, a vice president in the property and casualty group of McQueary Henry Bowles Troy’s Dallas office, recently received the Charlie Sammons Service Leadership Award from the Independent Insurance Agents of...
Residents, Agents Pitch In as Minnesota Town Recovers from Storm
May 29 2008 // Crews in Hugo, Minn. worked to restore electricity and natural gas and insurance agents went door-to-door as this small suburb got back on its feet after the devastating storm that killed a toddler and flattened...
China’s CNinsure Forms Two New Agencies
May 28 2008 // China’s CNinsure Inc. announced the signing of definitive agreements with several individual entrepreneurial agents to jointly establish Jiangsu Fanhua Lianchuang Insurance Agency Co. Ltd. (‘Lianchuang’)...
Duering Retires from American E&S Insurance Brokers
May 28 2008 // After 40 years in the insurance industry, Vivien Duering will retire from American E&S Insurance Brokers on June 30. Duering has spent 22 years with American E&S, serving as broker, San Francisco property...
California Assembly Passes Agent-Broker Bill
May 28 2008 // The California Assembly passed a bill that would help to clarify when an insurance professional is acting in the capacity of a broker versus an agent. The Assembly voted in favor of AB 2956 by a margin of 60-6. The measure...
Swingle Says He’s Benefited From Service to Texas Agents’ Group
May 28 2008 // For outgoing Independent Insurance Agents of Texas President Frank Swingle, serving on the board of the agents’ organization for the past six years has “been tremendously fun and beneficial.” And he plans...
Agents Say Michigan Boating Deaths Hit 5-Year High in 2007
May 27 2008 // Boating deaths in Michigan reached a 5-year high last year, according to the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents. The report said 35 Michigan boaters were killed last year. That was up from 29 in 2006, though down...
Why More Auto Insurance Leads are better
May 27 2008 // As an insurance agent, what makes your business go round? If you are like most, your answer is undoubtedly “insurance leads.” When it comes down to it, there is no going wrong if you continually gather leads....
Florida Reaches $4 Million Insurance Settlement with Aon
May 23 2008 // Florida reached a settlement with Aon Corp., after the insurance broker received undisclosed compensation in connection with the placement of insurance coverage on behalf of Florida policyholders, state officials...
How to Locate Car Insurance Leads
May 23 2008 // To most people, driving a car is something that they take for granted. Additionally, the same thing holds true with their car insurance policy. On the other side of things, car insurance agents are not nearly as laid back...
Claims of Agent’s Professional Negligence Can Be Assigned To Third Party
May 23 2008 // The Supreme Court of Arizona ruled that an insurance agent’s clients may assert claims for professional negligence against the client and may assign such claims to third parties. According to D. Jere’ Webb v....
Howden Launches U.S. Wholesale Brokerage Division in Miami
May 23 2008 // Miami-based Howden, specialist liability broker and part of the global insurance group Hyperion, launched a new wholesale brokerage division. Howden Broking Group’s Miami office will offer brokers a global network of...
Massachusetts Agents’ Key Software Vendor Weathers Major Upheaval
May 21 2008 // No tool is more indispensable to an insurance agency than a computer; after all, it’s where the rates come from. So imagine what went through the heads of thousands of Massachusetts independent insurance agents after...
Mass. Insurance Agents Vow to Protect Right to Auto Policy Ownership
May 20 2008 // Massachusetts independent insurance agents are unhappy about a state ruling that they believe erodes their ownership of their customers’ auto policies and denies them proper payment on certain high risk policies. The...
Encompass Adds New Products for Independent Agents in Minnesota
May 20 2008 // Minnesota insurance agents now can offer customers a new product that combines accident forgiveness and more discounts with rating tiers to help keep rates competitive, according to Northbrook, Ill.-based Encompass...
