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Jay Dillon

Jul 2 2007 // People Donald Gaddis Co. Inc. announced that Jay Dillon will lead the newly opened Franklin, Mich., office. Dillon has over 35 years of extensive commercial insurance experience, according to the Gaddis statement. For the...

Maximize your value by asking the right questions

Jul 2 2007 // Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop...

People

Jul 2 2007 // Chicago-based Aon Corp. reported that David P. Bolger, executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer, is leaving the company. Bolger will remain with Aon until the search for his...

Focus key to surviving insurance industry challenges

Jul 2 2007 // The “big problems” facing insurance agents and brokers today are human resources; government intervention; sustaining agency revenue growth/profit; maintaining a consistent company strategy and tactics; and...

Small business owners’ needs run large

Jul 2 2007 // Small business is big and getting bigger. Some 6.4 million businesses with one to 20 employees now contribute to our economy, and this segment continues to grow at a record pace. Everyone — the college graduate, the...

Getting to ‘yes’ with underwriters on design liability accounts

Jul 2 2007 // The most important thing a broker can do to advance an underwriting deal for an architects and engineers professional liability account is to understand how insurers vary in their rating. Insurers do not all approach...

More small businesses think big

Jul 2 2007 // The federal Small Business Act defines a small business as one that is “independently owned and operated, not dominant in its field, and whose size falls within the size standards established by the Small Business...

Contracts count when dealing with subcontractors

Jul 2 2007 // One of the many challenges general contractors — both commercial and residential — have faced over the past five years involves subcontractor insurance. The subcontractor marketplace has always been volatile....

Colemont Creates Workers’ Comp, Division, Hires Specialty Broker

Jun 29 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers-Southern California has added Blake Baker to its Woodland Hills, Calif., office. Baker is a workers’ compensation specialty broker with more than 20 years of experience in the...

Agent Pleads Guilty in Maryland Auto Fund Fraud, AG Reports

Jun 29 2007 // A former insurance agent and former owner of the Culpepper Insurance Agency in Baltimore has pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County to felony insurance fraud, according to Maryland Attorney General...

Calif. Agent Charged in Auto Fraud Scam

Jun 29 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that a California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigation has exposed the fraudulent activity of Newport Beach, Calif., resident and former insurance broker,...

Lloyd’s Enables Advanced Slip Checking Technology

Jun 28 2007 // In a further move to bring its processing operations into the 21st Century, Lloyd’s announced that it has “teamed up with Adsensa – one of the London Market’s leading suppliers of slip and policy...

Iowa Hawkeye Honors Agencies with 2006 Chairman’s Award

Jun 28 2007 // Iowa-based Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit, recently recognized its highest performing agencies with the 2006 Chairman’s Award at meetings held in...

Willis Acquires Online Small Business Broker InsuranceNoodle

Jun 28 2007 // Willis Group Holdings Limited, the global insurance broker, has acquired Chicago-based InsuranceNoodle, an Internet distributor of U.S. small business insurance. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. InsuranceNoodle...

Fla. Agents Want to Keep Personal Injury Protection

Jun 28 2007 // Insurance agents in Florida are gearing up for a special legislative session on whether to keep the state’s no-fault personal injury protection auto insurance law. Professional Insurance Agents of Florida Government...

Cahill Joins Colemont-Texas as Broker

Jun 27 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers of Texas announced the addition of Rob Cahill as a casualty broker in the Dallas office on Terry Moody’s team. At Colemont, Cahill will specialize in construction casualty, but will also...

Miss. Insurance Official Briefs Congress on Abusive Medicare Sales

Jun 27 2007 // Deputy Insurance Commissioner Lee Harrell testified before a Congressional sub-committee Tuesday on the problems Mississippi faces regarding the spread of abusive Medicare insurance sales practices. Harrell was joined by...

Fla. CFO Revokes Tampa Bay Agent’s License

Jun 26 2007 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink issued an order revoking the license of a Tampa Bay-area insurance agent for exploiting seniors in the sale of annuities. The Department of Financial Services accused Sharon...

Swett & Crawford Adds Casualty Broker in Mich. Office

Jun 26 2007 // Swett & Crawford recently announced that Brandon King has joined the Bloomfield Hills (Detroit), Mich. office as a casualty broker. Previously King worked at Johnston Lewis Associates, Inc as a property/casualty...

E.L.M. Insurance Brokers offers Comprehensive Coverage Care

Jun 26 2007 // ELM Insurance Brokers Inc. of El Segundo, Calif., has rolled out a new suite of products, called Comprehensive Coverage Care, that includes directors and officers, employmen practice (with optional third-party extensions...