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Venture Programs Expands Services through Web-based Underwriting Facility
Mar 8 2004 // Venture Programs announced that it has been selected to write business with ACE Complete, a Web-based underwriting facility for contracted program administrators and wholesale brokers. ACE Complete offers program...
Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses
Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...
Ky. Agents Await Sentencing
Mar 8 2004 // According to the Fraud Investigation Division of the Kentucky Office of Insurance, two individuals have been convicted of committing fraudulent insurance acts. Mark A. Calitri, 34, of Richmond was found guilty of two...
Orlando Agent Pleads No Contest
Mar 8 2004 // An Orlando insurance agent has pleaded no contest to organized fraud and unlawful sale of insurance for soliciting doctors to buy bogus medical malpractice coverage. Michael Rock, 34, was arrested on the charges in...
A New Day in Alabama for the Independent Agent
Mar 8 2004 // We have found not all members are knowledgeable about all of the programs we have available for them, which means they are not getting the full value of their membership in the association. It’s hard to believe that...
Agents’ E&O: Crisis or Not’
Mar 8 2004 // As an agent or broker, it can be frustrating to reveal an exorbitant price tag on a premium for a client. No one likes to hear that their insurance coverage is difficult to obtain, and if that, at a high price. The...
A LANDMARK OPPORTUNITY:
Mar 8 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana (IIABL) has launched its nation-wide campaign to attract insurers to Louisiana, kicking it off with the distribution of “Louisiana: A Landmark...
IIABNY Notes 67 Agencies Joined National Brand
Mar 5 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc., the Syracuse-based trade association that represents 1,900 agencies and brokerages in the state, announced that the Trusted Choice(SM) national branding...
Congressman Frank Guest Speaker at IIABA National Legislative Conference
Mar 4 2004 // Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, will speak to members of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) during their National...
ACT Report Cites Benefits of Real-time Technology
Mar 3 2004 // The Agents Council for Technology (ACT) has published The Real-Time Revolution: Redefining How We Work, a comprehensive report to help independent agents and brokers and carriers better use real-time technology to improve...
Mass. Auto Insurer Hanover Sues Over High Risk ‘Conspiracy’
Mar 3 2004 // The lengths to which an auto insurer in Massachusetts may go to circumvent the state’s unique high risk pool has been brought to light by an unusual lawsuit filed by one insurer against one of its...
Vista Insurance Partners Expands Select Agent Program
Mar 3 2004 // Vista Insurance Partners, a wholesale insurance broker headquartered in San Antonio, reported the expansion of its successful Select Agent Program to incorporate an additional 100 independent agents. Russell Shults was...
Nominations Open for IIAT’s Young Agent of 2004 Award
Mar 3 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that nominations for the 2004 Young Agent of the Year award remain open until March 15. The award will be presented at the IIAT’s annual convention June 10-12 in...
PIANH Adopts “Principles of Professionalism”
Mar 2 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc.’s board of directors announced it has adopted certain “Principles of Professionalism,” which it described as “a series of professional...
New Jersey Broker Acquired By American Wholesale Insurance Group
Mar 2 2004 // American Wholesale Insurance Group, a large independent wholesale insurance broker, has acquired New Jersey-based Property Risk Services, LLC. (PRS), a property wholesale brokerage group. “The addition of PRS...
Hub Purchases Ontario Brokerage
Mar 1 2004 // Chicago-based brokerage Hub International Ltd. announced the Jan. 1, 2004, asset acquisition of a group of commercial insurance accounts controlled by Martin Kir, an Ontario insurance broker and producer. The diversified...
Iroquois Group Expands Into Ill.
Mar 1 2004 // The Orlean, N.Y.-based Iroquois Group announced its expansion into the state of Illinois through its great lakes division led by Managing Partner Philip Dawson. This appointment increases Iroquois’ market presence...
IIABNY Survey Finds Most Northeast In-Home Businesses Vulnerable
Mar 1 2004 // A survey, conducted by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc, found that “tens of thousands of home-based businesses in New York and eight other Northeast states are needlessly at risk...
IIAJC Tees Off Again in 2004
Mar 1 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agent Junior Classic (IIAJC), sponsored nationally by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, and the largest golf tournament in the country that results in one champion, tees...
American Wholesale Insurance Group Forms San Francisco Brokerage Operation
Feb 27 2004 // American Wholesale Insurance Group, the nation’s largest independent wholesale insurance broker, announces the formation of a new wholesale brokerage operation in San Francisco, California to be led by Roger...
