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Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies
Apr 21 2008 // About This Report: The soft market had its effect on this year’s Top 100. But despite challenging soft market conditions, 15 of the privately-owned agencies and brokerages on Insurance Journal‘s Top 100...
What’s An Agent to Do When a Potential D&O Claim Arises?
Apr 18 2008 // A situation that could lead to a directors and officers liability claim arises. What’s an agent or broker to do? According to Susanne Murray of the New York office of insurance broker HRH, an expert in D&O...
Drinkwater Succeeds Smith as President of AmWINS Brokerage
Apr 18 2008 // National wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. announced that James Drinkwater has been named president of its AmWINS Brokerage division effective immediately. In this role, Drinkwater will be responsible for the...
Final Call: Agent Survey on Wholesale Market
Apr 17 2008 // Why do retail agents and brokers choose a particular wholesale broker or managing general agency to work with over another? What’s more important to a retailer — service or price? Insurance Journal invites...
American E&S Insurance Brokers Adds Fabricant as Broker
Apr 16 2008 // Steven Fabricant, a 16-year industry veteran, will join American E&S Insurance Brokers‘ San Francisco branch. Most recently with AmWINS in San Francisco, Fabricant’s book of business has included all types...
Fraud Investigation Leads Connecticut to Revoke Agent’s License
Apr 16 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has revoked the license of a Middlesex County insurance agent who it says forged clients’ signatures and held thousands of dollars in payments in his own bank account. Those...
Agent Group Supports Resolution Opposing Optional Federal Charter
Apr 16 2008 // The Professional INsurance Agents Association of Ohio (PIA) recently testified before the Ohio House Insurance Committee in support of a resolution for Ohio to formally oppose any “new layers of needless federal...
Total Bank Insurance Revenue Up Slightly in 2007
Apr 15 2008 // The nation’s bank holding companies experienced a slight increase of 0.5 percent in their total insurance revenue from $43.5 billion in 2006 to $43.7 billion in 2007. Citigroup Inc. (N.Y.), Wells Fargo & Co....
OneBeacon Agents Can Access Hagerty Collector Car, Boat Coverages
Apr 11 2008 // OneBeacon Insurance Group and Hagerty Insurance Agency and Hagerty Classic Marine Insurance Agency, collector car and classic boat insurance agencies, are now collaboratively providing property and casualty insurance...
Agent Survey: Views on Wholesale Market
Apr 11 2008 // Why do retail agents and brokers choose a particular wholesale broker or managing general agency to work with over another? What’s more important to a retailer — service or price? Insurance Journal invites...
Court Throws Out Nevada’s Insurance Agent Countersignature Law
Apr 11 2008 // The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated Nevada’s insurance producer countersignature law in what could be the final nail in the coffin for these requirements on nonresident producers. U.S. District...
Agents Balk as Mass. Permits 6-Month Auto Insurance Policies
Apr 10 2008 // Massachusetts will permit auto insurers to sell six-month policies in another change under the state’s newly operational managed competition system that gives insurers more freedom and drivers more...
The Ultimate Employee Benefit Producer School™
Apr 10 2008 // Lincoln, CA – April 10, 2008 – Agency Management Resource Group, a training, education and consulting firm serving independent insurance agencies, has announced the launch of the nation’s first producer...
MyNewMarkets.com Announces Two More Exchange Conferences
Apr 8 2008 // SAN DIEGO – (April 8, 2008) – Due to the success of it’s inaugural Exchange conference, MyNewMarkets.com, has scheduled two additional conferences in San Diego, California on September 4, 2008 and Dallas,...
To Perpetuate or Sell – It’s a Big Decision to Make
Apr 8 2008 // If you run your business as if you will choose to perpetuate you’re maximizing value,” says John Wepler, president of the consulting firm Marsh Berry & Co. Then, whether you decide to sell your agency to a...
Insurers Keen on NCAA’s Basket-Full of Opportunities
Apr 8 2008 // The University of Kansas men’s basketball team may have been the big winner at last night’s NCAA championship — but when it comes to the NCAA’s bonanza of sponsorship benefits from basketball and...
Collectify Offers Home Inventory Software to Agents
Apr 7 2008 // Collectify LLC has released its new Collectify Home Inventor Edition software at special pricing to insurance professionals so they can provide it as a value-added service to personal lines insurance clients. During 2005...
Texas Insurance Agent Accused of Bribery in Rio Grande Valley
Apr 7 2008 // A Harlingen, Texas, insurance agent is accused in a federal indictment of providing cash, plane tickets and condo rentals to some Edcouch-Elsa school district officials in exchange for public contracts. Arnulfo Olivarez...
Agents in the East Find Recession Hurts Others More Than Them
Apr 7 2008 // How agents from Mass. to Virginia are faring as the economy slows, competition quickens and government changes the rules Agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states are worried about how they and their customers...
Agency Strategies for Surviving a Recession
Apr 7 2008 // Agents who have lived and worked through previous recessions say business fundamentals that make sense in any economic environment ring doubly true in down times. “To weather the storm, agents need to do what they...
