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Mid-Size Brokers Hope to Gain From Industry Stumbles
Jan 3 2005 // While the contingent commissions controversy has been roiling the upper decks of the insurance industry, mid-size brokers and carriers could benefit from increased disclosure, heightened professionalism among its ranks,...
Lessons Learned From a Cherry Red Car
Jan 3 2005 // The last Oldsmobile, painted a commemorative dark cherry red, rolled off the assembly line in April 2004. During its 107-year history, the company produced more than 35 million cars and pioneered innovations like...
ALABAMA AGENTS PLAN MARCH LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE:
Jan 3 2005 // Agents will be briefed about pending Alabama legislation, review topics to discuss with Alabama legislators and attend a BBQ at the Capital March 17 during the 18th Alabama Independent Insurance Agents Legislative...
QUAKER SR SELLS SE WHOLESALE BROKERAGE:
Jan 3 2005 // Quaker Special Risk (QSR), of Sea Girt, N.J., excess and surplus lines insurance brokers exclusively serving retail brokers since 1960, has sold its southeast wholesale brokerage office to Charlotte, N.C.-based American...
Focus on the Future: Come 2014, Industry Should Look Very Familiar
Jan 3 2005 // Ten years from now, some of the players within the property/casualty insurance industry will have changed but the industry itself will not look dramatically different from what it is today: Smaller companies and...
Agents, Insurers Seek Targeted Compensation Disclosure Rules
Jan 3 2005 // The model compensation disclosure measure under consideration by the nation’s state regulators has been met with generally guarded support from agents, brokers and insurers. The Indep-endent Insurance Agents &...
Lessons Learned from a Cherry Red Car
Jan 3 2005 // The last Oldsmobile, painted a commemorative dark cherry red, rolled off the assembly line in April 2004. During its 107-year history, the company produced more than 35 million cars and pioneered innovations like...
Insurance Marketing and Communications
Jan 3 2005 // How to Produce Client Seminars As we develop our marketing and communications plans for 2005, one of the most effective ways a broker can provide a customized service to its clients is by producing educational seminars on...
2003-2004 California Year-End Legislative Repo
Jan 3 2005 // A summary of the most important legislation affecting the industry in the New Year The historic recall of Gray Davis and election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California set the tone for the 2004 legislative...
Agents, Insurers Seek Targeted Compensation Disclosure Rules
Jan 3 2005 // The model compensation disclosure measure under consideration by the nation’s state regulators has been met with generally guarded support from agents, brokers and insurers. The Independent Insurance Agents &...
Lessons Learned from a Cherry Red Car
Jan 3 2005 // The last Oldsmobile, painted a commemorative dark cherry red, rolled off the assembly line in April 2004. During its 107-year history, the company produced more than 35 million cars and pioneered innovations like...
Millions of families have wrong insurance coverage
Jan 2 2005 // Trusted Choice survey shows consumers remain underinsured for major life, work events At least 32 million U.S. households own insurance policies that aren’t right for them, a new national survey conducted by...
N.Y. Legislative Insurance Panel to Hear Brokerage Compensation Issues Jan. 7
Dec 31 2004 // A New York Assembly Committee hearing into insurance brokerage practices, originally scheduled for Dec. 6, has been rescheduled for Friday, Jan 7. The hearing will be held in the auditorium of the U.S. Customs House, 1...
Big ‘I’ Recognizes NAIC Efforts, Seeks Further Clarity
Dec 30 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) on Wednesday credited the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) for its hard work on a compensation disclosure...
Rios Joins Compass as Underwriter/Broker
Dec 29 2004 // California-based The Harry W. Gorst Co. and Compass Insurance Group of Agencies Inc., announced the hiring of Evon Rios as a broker and will be situated in the San Diego area. This year, Rios celebrated 21 years in the...
The Midwest’s Top 10 Newsmakers in 2004
Dec 29 2004 // What a long, strange trip it’s been. The year started with the two Chicago-area property/casualty insurance trade groups, the National Association of Independent Insurers and the Alliance of American Insurers,...
CDI Inquires About Zenith’s Broker/Agent Arrangements
Dec 28 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. announced that its California domiciled insurance subsidiaries have received letters of inquiry from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) requesting...
Affirmative Acquires Assets of Agencies in Florida, Texas
Dec 23 2004 // Addison, Texas-based Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc. reported it has signed definitive agreements to acquire the assets of two non-standard automobile insurance agency operations. In two separate transactions,...
Toland Joins Westrope’s Calif. Office as Casualty Broker
Dec 22 2004 // Twelve-year-old Kansas City, Mo.-based wholesaler Westrope announced the addition of Scott Toland as a casualty broker in its Irvine, Calif., office. Toland comes to Westrope from the AIG Cos., where he provided...
The Hartford Latest Insurance Company to Hire Top Prosecutor to Deal with Blizzard of Subpoenas
Dec 22 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group has hired a top federal corruption prosecutor in Connecticut amid a wave of state investigations into the insurance industry. The Hartford, which has been subpoenaed by attorneys...
