Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Taking the Risk: Protecting Your Clients with Political Risk Insurance
May 17 2004 // Over the past three decades, 80 percent of the terrorist attacks against the United States have been directed against American businesses in foreign locations. In 2001, about 400 American businesses were attacked. Compared...
Group Long-Term-Care Insurance: How to Cash in on this Hot Voluntary Benefit
May 17 2004 // Voluntary benefits, where the employees pay the full freight through payroll deduction, are booming. Voluntary plans let employers offer attractive fringe benefits like dental, vision care and disability insurance at no...
All the World’s a Market for Rekerdres & Sons
May 17 2004 // Texas agency insures nearly half of the nation’s cotton exports. Ted Rekerdres never intended to go into the insurance business, but an effective sales job by his father “Rek” Rekerdres, who established...
Making the Rounds With South Dakota’s Governor, a Former Insurance Agent
May 16 2004 // Michael Rounds Michael Rounds was having trouble sleeping at night. An insurance agent by trade and a politician by passion, he had told close friends and associates that he would not run for the governorship of South...
N.J. Young Agents in Race for Special Olympics
May 13 2004 // To mark its 20th anniversary, the New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals’ Fun Run expects to raise $100,000 for Special Olympics New Jersey this year. Held as part of the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey...
Electric Insurance Company announces the launch of real-time auto quoting through IVANS Transformation StationTM
May 12 2004 // Electric Insurance appointed agents in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin who use Applied TAM now have the ability to conduct real-time auto quoting without leaving their agency management system. Real-time quoting eliminates...
Correction: 100 Largest P/C Independent Agencies
May 11 2004 // Insurance Journal recently published a list of the top 100 largest property/casualty independent agencies and brokers in its May 3, 2004 issue. The list was compiled based on information that agencies voluntarily submitted...
Urick Joins Lockton Insurance Brokers
May 11 2004 // Willis E. Urick III recently joined Los Angeles-based Lockton Insurance Brokers Inc. as vice president of Lockton’s Benefits Company. His responsibilities will include strategic planning, new business development and...
Albany Agent Vows Active Administration after Election to Head IIABNY
May 10 2004 // The newly-elected leader of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. is promising to put the full weight of the trade association behind efforts to restore the state’s once-healthy insurance...
Fla. Agent Charged with Theft
May 10 2004 // A Florida insurance agent is facing criminal charges and loss of his license over charges that he stole premiums from numerous customers, including the Brazilian Missionary Community Church, Corp. Jerrod Keith Zelanka, 27,...
New Orleans Agent Shut Down for Misappropriating Funds; Submitted 21 False Annuity Applications
May 6 2004 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley announced that Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served New Orleans agent, Tanya Maria Price, 38, with cease and desist orders and summary suspensions of her...
IIANC’s Young Agents Conference Runs June 13-15
May 6 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s (IIANC’s) annual Young Agents Conference, a conference in North Carolina targeted to agents 41 years of age and under, will be held June 13-15, at the...
Travelers Announces 2004 Agent of the Year Awards
May 6 2004 // Travelers, a member of St. Paul Travelers, presented its Agent of the Year Awards on May 5 to 17 independent insurance agents from around the country at its annual personal lines leadership conference for top independent...
<em>Imaging at a Glance</em> Study Published
May 5 2004 // The Academy of Producer Insurance Studies, based in Austin, Texas, announced the publication of Imaging at a Glance, a new publication that investigates the process and popularity of imaging – the electronic storage...
IIABA Study Warns on “Electrical Hazards”
May 5 2004 // A survey commissioned by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America found that out of more than 75 million American homeowners, one out of four never checks for electrical hazards and thus is vulnerable to...
Fireman’s Fund Picks American Collectors Insurance to Provide Collector Vehicle Coverage
May 4 2004 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company has chosen American Collectors Insurance Inc. a specialty niche managing general agent – as exclusive provider for its co-branded collector vehicle program that insures the...
Price Joins Heffernan Insurance Brokers Portland as Senior Producer
May 4 2004 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers announced the appointment of Scott Price as a producer in its Portland office. With production responsibilities focused on commercial accounts in the greater Northwest, Price is charged with...
Fla. Agent Sees License Revoked
May 3 2004 // A Boca Raton, Florida man has lost his license to sell insurance after being charged with compromising the health insurance of four children. On March 12, the Department of Financial Services filed an administrative...
Some IJ Firsts
May 3 2004 // This issue marks another new venture for Insurance Journal magazine. For the first time ever, we have compiled a list of the nation’s top 100 independent property/casualty brokerages ranked by premium volume. This...
Agency Management Systems: Still Waiting for True Integration with Carriers
May 3 2004 // The true integration of agency management systems with carrier systems may be on the horizon—but current market dynamics make it a very distant horizon. In the meantime, more of the policy transaction process and...
