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How to Develop Program Business Despite Tough Market Standards
Dec 1 2003 // Over the past several years, launching new insurance programs—both from the perspective of potential producers, such as MGAs, retail agent groups and wholesalers, and the specialty insurance carriers—has been...
SIAA Claims More Than Just Aggregation
Dec 1 2003 // At first blush, the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance may look like just one more short-term solution to the increasing shift in the balance of power toward insurance carriers away from independent agents. ommissions...
Canadian Study Examines Government Role in Auto Insurance
Dec 1 2003 // The Centre for Spatial Economic and Shift Central Inc. have released a study, commissioned by Insurance Bureau of Canada on behalf of brokers, agents and insurers in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, that sheds new...
Former Calif. Agent Sentenced to Six Years
Nov 26 2003 // David Alfred Tetley, 50, a former insurance agent, was sentenced to six years in state prison and ordered to pay restitution to victims after pleading guilty to six felony counts of Financial Elder Abuse and Grand...
Indiana Big I Elects Mark Bates Immediate Past President
Nov 26 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (IIAI) elected its officers to serve the association in the year 2004 at the IIAI Annual Convention, Nov. 16-18, 2003. Mark A. Bates will continue to serve as part of the IIAI...
Safeco Adds Workers’ Comp Policies to Online Sales Platform
Nov 25 2003 // Seattle-based Safeco Business Insurance (SBI) has expanded its online sales platform to make it faster and easier for agents to sell workers compensation insurance to small businesses. The update means agents can go online...
Balboa to Sell Renters Insurance Program Through Agents, Brokers
Nov 25 2003 // Balboa Insurance Group Inc. has announced new delivery methods for a renters insurance program offered through two of its insurance company subsidiaries. BIG’s renters product, which has been sold through financial...
Iowa Agent Gets 4 Years for Securities Fraud
Nov 25 2003 // A Marion, Iowa, insurance agent was sentenced to four years in prison for selling fraudulent securities, according to The Marion Star. Paul L. Edwards, 68, received three years for reportedly engaging in a pattern of...
InVest Unveils New Web Site Design Targeting Agents Among Others
Nov 24 2003 // InVEST, an education program to strengthen the insurance industry by attracting a large pool of qualified insurance recruits, has unveiled its new Web site design. “The new Web site is a single source for everything...
Independent Survey Reveals Good News for NGM
Nov 24 2003 // According to a recent nationwide survey conducted by Deep Customer Connections, Inc. (DCC), a Massachusetts-based management consulting firm serving the property and casualty (P/C) industry, National Grange Mutual (NGM),...
PIACT Requests Nominations for 2004 Distinction of Professionalism Awards
Nov 24 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. is calling for nominations for its 2004 Distinction of Professionalism Awards, two awards honoring those independent agents who exemplify the qualities and actions that...
MexiPass Notes 30% Commission Rate for Personal Auto Program
Nov 24 2003 // MexiPass Global Assurance, an MGA for insurance in Mexico, announced a new commission rate of 30 percent and On-line Policy Issuance, under the MexiPass exclusive Personal Automobile Programs underwritten by...
John B. Collins Associates Adds Pair of Reinsurance Brokers
Nov 24 2003 // John B. Collins Associates, one of the world’s reinsurance intermediaries, announced the addition of two senior property/ casualty reinsurance brokers, Chris Ruyak and Andrew Petersen, to the firm’s San...
IIAT, TSLA Share Views on Good Working Relationships
Nov 24 2003 // Retail and wholesale insurance agents need to work at maintaining good relationships with each other to ensure the best workflow between the two industry sectors. According to the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas,...
Md. Commissioner Urges Agents to Attend National Flood Insurance Workshops
Nov 21 2003 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred Redmer, Jr., is encouraging Maryland agents to take advantage of the free two-hour workshops being offered by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) on Nov. 24-25. The workshops...
Ohio Casualty Group Implements AMS’s TransactNOW
Nov 20 2003 // Fairfield, Ohio-based Ohio Casualty Group (OCG) has announced that real-time billing and claim inquiries are now available to its independent agencies through TransactNOW from AMS Services Inc. TransactNOW was introduced...
CNA Names Small Business Unit Managers
Nov 20 2003 // Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA recently announced that Paul Nhem and Tom Gill will become partnering managers of its dedicated small business program unit. Nhem and Gill will partner with agencies to generate and...
Louisiana Agent Arrested for Fraud, Theft
Nov 18 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that a Ruston, La., insurance agent whose licenses recently expired was issued a cease and desist order in the wake of his arrest on charges of felony theft and insurance...
Agency Salary Survey 2003
Nov 17 2003 // The following agency compensation survey and commentary appeared in the March 2003 Middleton Letter, which was previously published by the late Carol Hammes, and is now produced by Marsh, Berry & Co. Inc. in...
Policy Options and Offerings are Major Issues for Mid-Size Manufacturers
Nov 17 2003 // Coverage options and product offerings, rather than price, are the most important factors for middle market manufacturers when they go looking for insurance to cover their businesses. At least that’s the conclusion...
