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Oxendyne Tells Ga. Big ‘I’: Abolishing Contingency Fees ‘A Mistake’
Jun 12 2006 // Abolishing contingency commissions and making them illegal would be a mistake, John Oxendine, Georgia Insurance Commissioner, told more than 800 agents attending the 109th Annual Convention, Trade Show and Young Agents...
N.Y. Agents Honor O’Shea
Jun 8 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York Inc. announced that John O’Shea, chairman of Marshall & Sterling Inc. in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will receive the Distinguished Insurance Service award at the...
Strategic Independent Agents Alliance Establishes New Mo.Master Agency
Jun 8 2006 // Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA) announces that The Powers Group, Inc. of Clayton, Mo. has established Valley Insurance Agency Alliance as a SIAA Master Agency. Their exclusive territory covers several counties...
Ericson Named Marketing Manager for Frye Claims Consultation
Jun 8 2006 // Adrienne Chapman Ericson has joined Frye Claims Consultation & Administration Inc. as director of marketing. She brings to the position more than 23 years experience as a professional liability and commercial general...
Denmark’s EKF, Sovereign Risk in $17 Million Ukraine Export Contract
Jun 7 2006 // Denmark’s Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) and Bermuda-based Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd. have completed a political risk insurance contract supporting DKK100 million ($17.1 million) of exports to Ukraine. “The...
Paulmar Software Introduces New Insurance Premium Accounting and Solvency Management Software
Jun 7 2006 // Product Performance: NOBL was designed to manage premium and return premium fiduciary funds transacted by P&C insurance agents and brokers until they are disbursed to legal owners (insurance companies, general agents,...
HealthNow N.Y. Acquires Northeast Benefits Firm, Brokerage Concepts
Jun 7 2006 // HealthNow New York Inc., parent company of BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueShield of Northeastern New York, is acquiring the business and operations of and Brokerage Concepts, Inc. (BCI), a major benefits...
CAA Elects New Management Committee
Jun 6 2006 // At its annual meeting May 24-25, Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, announced its newly elected 2006 management committee, including CAA’s new president, Bill Bridges, executive vice...
Mercator Risk Adds Broker Duo to Lead Midwest Property Practice
Jun 5 2006 // New York-based Mercator Risk Services, an independent wholesale insurance broker, has added two key members to its growing Midwest Property Practice. Jason Tegan and Libby Wakolbinger have joined Mercator’s Chicago...
N.Y. Agents Back Overhaul Of Workers’ Comp System
Jun 5 2006 // New York should increase its workers’ compensation benefits and try to deliver benefits in a less adversarial process, according to the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. The association made its...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Safeco adds online distribution strategy to sell direct to consumers
Jun 5 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insur-ance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents, the company reported. Safeco began exploring this new...
Agents have until Oct. 1 to register in Florida’s Agency Licensing System
Jun 5 2006 // Florida insurance agents have until Oct. 1 to complete their registration in the Department of Financial Services new Agency Licensing System. Hazel Muhammad, director of the Bureau of Licensing, was one of the featured...
Only 12 of 18 perils happen in Florida, ‘So what’s your problem?’ quips moderator
Jun 5 2006 // The country has experienced 18 different types of natural disasters, while Florida deals with “only” 12 of these perils. Yet insurers and consumers have big problems in Florida. “When you go through the...
Coverage issues at core of Hurricane Katrina-related litigation
Jun 5 2006 // The amount of property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi and Louisiana has been extensively reported, as has the fact that many people in those states did not have flood insurance coverage. As a result,...
Insurance industry lags behind in technology but consumers can help
Jun 5 2006 // Brokers work in the trenches — acquiring clients, searching for the right coverage, writing policies and getting compensated. It is technology that makes their jobs easier and it should be welcomed. Better efficiency...
Management by the numbers
Jun 5 2006 // Management is both an art and a science. Most agency owners forget about the science part. That is because owners typically are not formally trained in management techniques. Interestingly enough, the “art”...
Millions of renters lack insurance, says Trusted Choice survey
Jun 5 2006 // Almost 25 million U.S. families renting their homes are going bare on insurance coverage, leaving themselves vulnerable to serious property and liability losses. Many renters without coverage own valuable, high-tech...
Big ‘I’ Bob Rusbuldt is on the job
Jun 5 2006 // Rusbuldt, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, needs no introduction to independent agents, insurance company executives or the power brokers in Washington, D.C., before whom...
