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Safeco and Its Agents Ready to Help Stranded Texas Select Customers
Jul 24 2006 // Safeco Insurance is working with its 536 independent Texas agents to provide quality replacement homeowners coverage for customers stranded by the failed Texas Select Lloyds company. “With the clock ticking for...
IIAT honors Fitzhugh for 60 years of state conference attendance
Jul 24 2006 // Third generation Waco agent going strong at 89 Third-generation and longtime Waco independent insurance agent Champe Fitzhugh Jr., was honored in mid-June by his insurance profession’s state association, the...
The excess flood market steps up where NFIP drops off
Jul 24 2006 // The historical lessons learned from Katrina and Rita and looming predictions of a future with bigger and stronger storms highlight more than ever before the importance of flood insurance, even in locations where it was...
Riding out soft and hard market cycles with quality relationships
Jul 24 2006 // Analyzing the economic rhymes and reasons of soft and hard market cycles in the insurance industry would make for a challenging university-level business course. Theories abound on why and when these cycles occur, but no...
Maximizing your agency’s ROI — Return on internet
Jul 24 2006 // Is your insurance agency investing in Web initiatives? If so, you are in the minority. While many independent insurance agents have a virtual presence on their insurance carrier sites, most independent insurance agencies...
Pay less attention to delinquent accounts, call your good customers
Jul 24 2006 // Agents can make a difference in the perception of the insurance business if, instead of tracking and billing delinquent accounts, they turn everything around and call good customers, Kat Davis of Tower Hill Insurance in...
Unitrin Specialty Offering Agents a Tool to Help Plan for Disaster
Jul 23 2006 // Dallas-based Unitrin Specialty announced it is now providing its agents with a new tool that helps small businesses plan for and recover from disaster. Open for Business, an Internet-based disaster recovery and risk...
Insurer Praetorian, Broker Paulk Offer Builder’s Risk in Fla. and Gulf States
Jul 21 2006 // Specialty insurer Praetorian Financial Group has entered into a partnership with Britt Paulk to launch a Builder’s Risk program. The partnership will initially be launched in Florida and the Gulf states, where...
Unitrin Specialty Helps Agents Plan for Disaster
Jul 21 2006 // Dallas, Texas – At least one in four small businesses that close because of a major disaster never reopen. That’s why Unitrin Specialty is providing its agents with a new tool that helps small businesses plan...
Colorado Seizes $5 Million in Collateral from Bail Bond Agent
Jul 20 2006 // Colorado regulators said Tuesday they had seized about $5 million in loan documents and other collateral from a bail bond agent, saying some of it may have been improperly kept from the people who posted it. The state...
Brokers Offer Full Support for Surplus Lines Reform Bill
Jul 20 2006 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices offered their full support and applauded the passage of the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2006 (H.R. 5637), by the House Financial Services...
Former W.Va. Agent Sentenced for Embezzlement
Jul 20 2006 // Shawn Edwin Linger, a former insurance agent in Clarksburg, W.Va. has been sentenced to one felony count of embezzlement according to Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline. Linger was sentenced July 6 to one to 10 years in...
The Hanover Expands Business Owner’s Policy
Jul 19 2006 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. based in Worchester, Mass., has added 81 new classes to the company’s Avenues Business Owner’s Policy. The enhanced Avenues BOP offers coverage for more than 360 BOP classes. In...
Vesta Fire and Subsidiaries Headed for Liquidation in Texas
Jul 19 2006 // Vesta Fire Insurance Company (Vesta Fire) and its Texas subsidiary insurance companies have begun issuing notices to agents to cease writing new and renewal insurance business, including homeowners policies for Texas...
Gibson, Ridge, Win 2006 Trusted Choice Big ‘I’ Junior Classic
Jul 18 2006 // Tommy Gibson of Pilot Mountain, N.C. shot a 138 over two days to place first in the Boys division at the 36-hole North Carolina Trusted Choice Big “I” Junior Classic (previously the IIAJC) championship on July...
NetRate Systems Enables Commerce West Insurance Company to Implement Straight-Through Processing.
Jul 18 2006 // OKEMOS, MI – NetRate Systems has successfully partnered with Commerce West Insurance Company to enable Commerce West to implement rate/ quote/ issue of Personal Auto policies. The process utilizes a NetRate Systems...
Primary Elections Set for Commissioners, Treasurer in Okla.
Jul 17 2006 // Candidates hoping to challenge incumbents for three statewide offices in Oklahoma, including that of insurance commissioner, will face-off in primary elections on July 25. State Rep. Bill Case of Midwest City will meet...
E.L.M. Insurance Brokers Offers Free Legal Advice with Policies
Jul 17 2006 // Los Angeles-based E.L.M. Insurance Brokers Inc., which specializes in insurance professional liability and risk management, is offering all of its E.L.M. Insurance Broker errors and omissions clients 30 minutes of...
Agent Says He Never Advised Couple Against Buying Flood Insurance
Jul 17 2006 // The agent at the center of a landmark hurricane insurance case on Friday denied telling a policyholder that he didn’t need flood insurance years before Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. denied much of his claim...
Ng Joins Dealey, Renton & Associates in Oakland, Calif.
Jul 14 2006 // Dealey, Renton & Associates Insurance Brokers has named Marlowe Ng manager, Agents & Brokers Department in the company’s Oakland office. Ng will have overall responsibility for sales and customer service in...
