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Reduce Your Costs by Sharing Expenses with Competitors
Aug 9 2004 // There are multiple ways to grow your agency’s bottom line. The most exciting way is, of course, to sell more policies. You logically devote most of your energies to this essential activity because it’s the best...
Fowler and Keyes Join Noodle Specialty Brokers as Underwriting VPs
Aug 6 2004 // Insurance industry veterans James A. Fowler and John D. Keyes have joined Chicago-based Noodle Specialty Brokers (NSB), the newly formed division of InsuranceNoodle Inc., as senior vice presidents of underwriting. Noodle...
Toledo Broker is 1,000th to Earn CRM Designation
Aug 4 2004 // Joseph R. Buick, a broker with the Hylant Group in Toledo, Ohio, made his mark in risk management education history as he became the 1,000th individual to earn the prestigious Certified Risk Managers (CRM) designation, the...
IIABW to Hold Annual Conference Sept. 30 – Oct. 2
Aug 4 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington will hold its annual conference Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2004 at The Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington. The conference theme, “Making a...
The Expanding Ability of an Insurer to Recoup Costs Expended for Uncovered Claims
Aug 4 2004 // Insurers are routinely presented with complaints filed against their insureds where some of the complaint’s allegations do not fall within the coverage provided by an insured’s insurance policy. Nevertheless,...
Cravens/Warren & Co. Joins CAA
Aug 3 2004 // Combined Agents of America LLC announced it recently reached the 30-member milestone with the addition of Houston-based Cravens/Warren & Co. Cravens/Warren is located in the northwest quadrant of Houston, an area of...
North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group Selects SEEC’s CSA
Aug 3 2004 // SEEC Inc., a provider of legacy modernization solutions for insurance, financial services and manufacturing, and Enterprise Web provider Plumtree Software announced that North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group (NCFB)...
Allstate Workplace Division Unveils New Worksite Application for Independent Agents
Aug 3 2004 // Allstate Workplace Division has launched a new electronic worksite application program called AllApp for independent agents contracted to sell Allstate Workplace Division products. AllApp features a combined product...
Quality Customer Service Vital for Satisfaction, Progressive’s Survey Says
Aug 3 2004 // Proactive and personalized service are an important part of what consumers say they want from their independent insurance agent or broker. And while most independent agents say it’s important to provide this level of...
Three Unitrin Companies Join Trusted Choice
Aug 3 2004 // Kemper Auto and Home, Unitrin Multi Lines Insurance and Unitrin Specialty Lines Insurance have joined the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America’s (IIABA) Trusted Choice campaign—the national brand...
Hull & Company Announces Dallas Appointments
Aug 2 2004 // Donna Boyd joined the Dallas office of Hull & Company as a senior account executive, placing contract and brokerage business for Texas retail agents. Boyd is a seasoned Excess & Surplus lines broker with 31 years...
Mary M. Eisenhart Joins Agency Management Resource Group
Jul 30 2004 // Cheryl L. Koch, CPCU, CIC, ARM, AAI, AIM, AIS, ARP, AAM, API, ACSR, owner of Agency Management Resource Group of Lincoln, CA, a leading provider of consulting and training services to independent agents and companies, is...
Trusted Choice Ads to Return to Airwaves
Jul 29 2004 // Trusted Choice television ads return to the national airwaves next month when the fourth of six advertising flights in 2004 kicks off Aug. 9, according to Trusted Choice Board Chairman Ronald Smith, president of Smith...
Webcetera Delivers “Real Time” Auto Insurance Quotes for Safeco and Independent Insurance Distributors
Jul 29 2004 // Independent insurance distributors in seven western states now can get accurate Safeco Auto and Home quotes without leaving their EZLynx Web portal (www.ezlynx.com). In insurance industry parlance, this is...
IIABA of N.Y. Backs Case for Reauthorization of TRIA
Jul 29 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. has taken its case for reauthorizing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 before the end of the year to Capitol Hill. Three members of the Syracuse-based...
Eisenhart, Vogelman Join Calif.-based Agency Management Resource Group
Jul 29 2004 // Cheryl L. Koch, owner of Agency Management Resource Group of Lincoln, Calif., a provider of consulting and training services to independent agents and companies, announced that Mary M. Eisenhart has joined the firm as...
Philbin Chosen as New Trusted Choice Exec. Director
Jul 28 2004 // Heather Philbin was announced as the new executive director of Trusted Choice, according to Big “I” Executive Vice President Debra Perkins. Trusted Choice is the consumer marketing brand created by the...
Warrants Issued for Ga. Agent
Jul 27 2004 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine announced that warrants have been issued in Savannah, Ga., for an insurance agent charged with multiple counts of insurance fraud. Rosemary Middleton has been charged with eight...
CalSurance Unveils National E&O Coverage for Broker-Dealers with 75 or Less Registered Reps
Jul 27 2004 // CalSurance, a national insurance sales, service and support organization comprising many diverse and specialized programs, has launched a specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer...
Md. Agent Charged in Fraud Case
Jul 27 2004 // Maryland Attorney General Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Dorothy Faye Mortimer, 61, of Waldorf, Maryland. In a forty-four (44) count criminal indictment filed in the...
