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Internet Offers Major Training Inroads
Jul 5 2004 // It’s often said that “learning is not a spectator sport.” For the insurance profession, this concept is right on target. The days of classroom-style training seminars, many of which may border on being...
Agents: Insurance Company Markets Aren’t Always Going to Come to You!
Jul 5 2004 // One of the most important things agents can do for themselves and their agency is to maintain positive, healthy working relationships with the carriers they place business with. Unfortunately, despite their best...
The Trust Factor-Building Relationships with Your Clients
Jul 5 2004 // Baffled by the product, overwhelmed by policy verbiage and totally put off by the adversarial nature of the whole business, consumers nationwide express having serious trust issues with the insurance industry. In...
Cost of Insuring Workers in Iraq Jumps as Dangers Multiply
Jul 5 2004 // When Vulcan AMPS LLC dispatched a team of workers to Iraq last fall, managers knew it would be risky. What they didn’t count on was just how much more expensive it would become to insure employees and the company...
BROKER SEGAL CONVICTED:
Jul 5 2004 // A federal jury has convicted a politically connected insurance tycoon of embezzling more than $20 million from his own insurance brokerage firm. Michael Segal was found guilty on all charges: mail fraud, wire fraud, making...
This Time, We’ll Do It The Right Way
Jul 5 2004 // New U.S. P/C Insurers Learn from Sins of Their Predecessors In the summer of 2001, the hard cycle had already arrived for the U.S. property/casualty marketplace for all lines of coverage. Prices were trending up as experts...
Insurance Associations’ Letter to Rep. Oxley on TRIA
Jul 2 2004 // The major insurance associations have sent a joint letter to House Financial Services Committee chairman Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) in support of the effort to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. The text of the letter is...
Higginbotham & Associates Opens Austin Office
Jul 2 2004 // Fort Worth, Texas-based insurance and financial services brokerage firm Higginbotham & Associates announced it has launched services for Central and South Texas with the opening of a new Austin office. Newly hired...
Agent Groups Express Appreciation as President Signs Flood Insurance Extension Bill
Jul 1 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) and the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents both hailed President Bush’s signature of the Flood Insurance Reform...
N.Y. Agents Hail Reactivation of Fair Plan Finally
Jun 30 2004 // After nearly nine weeks of being suspended, operations at the New York property insurance residual market are back. The suspension of the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the Fair Plan,...
WSS, Shand Morahan to Host Free EPL Seminar
Jun 30 2004 // Richard Polizzi, president of Western Security Surplus, invites agents and brokers to a free informative Employment Practices Liability Insurance seminar on July 15, 2004. The hosts for the seminar will be WSS’...
Big ‘I’ to Offer Continuing Ed Courses in Orlando
Jun 30 2004 // For individuals needing continuing education (CE) credits to meet their state’s insurance licensing requirements, then the 2004 Big “I” Convention this October at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin...
Anti-Fax Law Exemption Bill Passes House Committee
Jun 29 2004 // Federal legislation that would exempt existing business relationships from anti-fax laws, including existing agent-client relationships, has advanced in the House and has been introduced in the Senate said the Independent...
Heath Insurance Brokers Opens Satellite Office
Jun 29 2004 // Casey B. Hamlin, President of Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Heath Insurance Brokers Inc. announced the opening of a satellite office in Redondo Beach, Calif. The new office is located at 149 Palos Verdes Blvd., Ste. F,...
NFIP Launches National Campaign for Agents, Consumers on Flooding Risks, Insurance Benefits
Jun 29 2004 // This week, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) its new national marketing campaing, FloodSmart, which is designed to educate consumers about the risks of flooding and the benefits of flood insurance, as well as to...
IIABA Honors Virginia’s Adkins with National ACSR of the Year Award
Jun 29 2004 // Jacqueline Adkins, a claims management specialist with Norfolk, Va.-based Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs Co., has been named the 2003 National Accredited Customer Service Representative (ACSR) of the Year by the Independent...
Woronoco Bank to Buy Colton Agency in Mass.
Jun 25 2004 // Woronoco Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Woronoco Savings Bank, has signed an agreement to acquire The Colton Agency, Inc., an insurance agency located in Westfield, Mass. The bank plans to merge the agency with its...
Bowles, Nutt Receive Awards at IIAT Convention
Jun 25 2004 // Donald E. Bowles, Jr., president of McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP in Dallas, won the Drex Foreman Award and Rowdy Nutt, a producer with Bosworth & Associates in Tyler, was named IIAT Young Agent of the Year for 2004...
2004 State IIAJC Jr. Golf Tourney Plans Set
Jun 25 2004 // “Final plans are in place for the State Tournament for the Independent Insurance Agent Junior Classic (IIAJC), also known as the Big “I” Junior Classic, which is sponsored nationally by the Independent...
Willis to Acquire Irish Broker Coyle Hamilton
Jun 24 2004 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, announced that it has reached agreement in principle to acquire a majority shareholding in Coyle Hamilton, the Republic of Ireland’s largest privately owned...
