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Conn. Agents Cite OneBeacon’s Evans as Company Pro of Year
Mar 21 2007 // Ken Evans, territory manager for OneBeacon Small Business in Canton, Mass., has been named this year’s recipient of the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Company Professional of the Year...
Wilson Heads Conn. Agents’ Group
Mar 20 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. elected officers during the association’s annual convention last week at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. Following are the new officers who will...
Conn. Agents Honor DiMatteo as Agent of Year
Mar 20 2007 // Victoria DiMatteo, co-owner of A.A. DiMatteo Insurance Service Center in Shelton, Conn., received the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Professional Agent of the Year award last week during the...
Calif.’s Agents Alliance Moves Board to Sacramento
Mar 20 2007 // The Board of Directors of the Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has moved its headquarters to Sacramento, Calif. “Sacramento is where all the key players in the political and regulatory arena are based,”...
Qualcorp, Inc. unveils QueryPlus reporting tool for AFW & 360 Agency Management Systems at National AMS User Conference
Mar 19 2007 // QualCorp, Inc announced today that they will be showing their new agency reporting tool, QueryPlus AFW/360, in Orlando Florida at the AMS National User Conference on March 21-25, 2007. QueryPlus makes the on-going chore of...
W. Va. Hosting Workers Comp Training Sessions
Mar 17 2007 // The Offices of the Insurance Commissioner of West Virginia in cooperation with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), will hold training sessions around the state on development of workers’...
Dallas Agents Group Names Kull as Executive Director
Mar 15 2007 // The Board of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas (IIAD) announced that Carol Kull has joined the association as executive director. Kull comes to the IIAD from the Home Builder’s Association of Livingston...
Bay Area Man Sentenced for Selling Fake Policies
Mar 15 2007 // A former insurance broker/agent has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the sale of approximately $6 million worth of fake insurance policies the broker falsely claimed were underwritten by Lloyd’s of London,...
Ill. Agents Host Annual Industry Legislative Day March 20
Mar 14 2007 // The Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois (PIIAI), in conjunction with the Illinois Insurance Association (IIA), Illinois Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (IAIFA), Illinois State Association...
Big ‘I’ Makes Changes to Federal Affairs Staff
Mar 14 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) has hired Jason Spence as its new assistant vice president for federal government affairs, effective March 12. Spence comes to the Big...
Agents and Brokers: Extended Deadline to Submit for IJ’s Top 100, March 21
Mar 14 2007 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top independent insurance agencies and brokerages is winding down with just a couple of days left for qualified firms to send in their entry forms. The exteneded...
Poolman Backs Uniform Licensing, Contingent Commissions
Mar 12 2007 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman believes that creating a uniform producer licensing system is a top priority, not just for North Dakota, but for every state. “We’ve worked hand in glove with our...
Study: High Disability Retirement in LA County Safety Agencies
Mar 12 2007 // Employees of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s and fire departments retire on disability pensions at a nearly 50 percent higher rate than their counterparts in 19 other California counties, according to a report by a...
Editor’s Note: Bonus round
Mar 12 2007 // Last November, then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer notified four insurance companies that they could no longer pay contingent commissions to agents and brokers who sell automobile, homeowners and certain other...
The impact of contingent commissions on independent agencies
Mar 12 2007 // How much do independent agencies rely on contingency income and could they survive without it? Debate continues in the insurance industry regarding the future of contingent income. Any drastic changes in the current...
Insurance Journal’s Exclusive Agency Salary Survey
Mar 12 2007 // More independent insurance agencies gave salary increases in 2006 than in 2005, but still nearly half of all agency salaries nationwide stayed right where they were compared to 2005. On the other hand, producer commission...
Prospecting in the 21st Century: Using the Internet to find prospects
Mar 12 2007 // Former agent and technology guru provides tips on working the Web Technology expert Steve Anderson of The Anderson Network Inc., a licensed independent agent for the last 25 years, began his presentation to the Independent...
Compensation for employee benefits staff should mirror commercial lines
Mar 12 2007 // In our travels as consultants to the insurance industry, we have noticed that one of the more elusive “standards” or “norms” is compensation for employee benefits producers and staff. The difficulty...
What lies ahead for agency compensation? Agents could benefit from incentive pay plans replacing contigent income
Mar 12 2007 // Incentive pay plans for agents that some insurers are implementing to replace discontinued contingency compensation could work out better for agents than the programs they are replacing. A handful of major carriers banned...
Tim Wagner, Nebraska, Director of Insurance
Mar 12 2007 // Director of Insurance L. Tim Wagner has spent close to 40 years in the insurance industry, the last nine as the appointed Nebraska regulator. He takes his role seriously and believes the insurance industry has a real...
