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ISO’s New Auto Loss-History Database Offers Insurers Comprehensive Information for Assessing Auto Po
May 17 2002 // Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) has launched its new Automobile-Property Loss Underwriting Service (A-PLUSTM) database to provide insurers, brokers and agents comprehensive automobile loss information, so they can...
Hub International Names Execs for Brokerage units
May 16 2002 // Chicago-based Hub International Limited announced that Joseph P. Flanagan and Richard J. Palleschi have been named president and CEO at two of the company’s brokerage units: Flanagan at Chicago-based Mack and Parker...
Bogus Calif. Agent Arrested on Grand Theft Charges
May 15 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Investigations Bureau arrested Scott D. Veitch, 35, vice president of Golf Marketing World Wide LLC. Veitch, who is not...
Insurance Industry Posts Strong Q1 Gains HOW REAL ARE THEY’
May 13 2002 // After suffering its first ever net loss in 2001,an extraordinary and dismal year by anyone’s reckoning, the property/casualty industry finally received some good news as earnings reports for the first quarter of 2002...
Technology Bites
May 13 2002 // About the time we were heavily into the production cycle for the current issue of Insurance Journal-Texas/South Central, with its focus on technology issues, technology took a bite out of our offices. We were attacked by...
Texas Offers IIABA’s First Virtual University Online Education Course
May 13 2002 // The first online continuing education course offered through the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America’s (IIABA) Virtual University has been unveiled—in Texas. The course is available on the...
XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
Technology: Do Agents Really Need to be Involved’
May 13 2002 // Today, the independent agency system is faced with new challenges and opportunities, many of which are fostered by the development of new technologies, not the least of which is the growth of eCommerce through the...
CAL-SURANCE AMONG AGENCIES NOTED FOR PERFORMANCE
May 13 2002 // An elite group of independent insurance agencies from around the United States met in Atlanta recently to be honored by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) and Reagan Consulting, an...
Insurance Industry Posts Strong Q1 Gains
May 13 2002 // After suffering its first ever net loss in 2001, an extraordinary and dismal year by anyone’s reckoning, the property/casualty industry finally received some good news as earnings reports for the first quarter of...
Technology: Do Agents Really Need to be Involved’
May 13 2002 // Today, the independent agency system is faced with new challenges and opportunities, many of which are fostered by the development of new technologies, not the least of which is the growth of eCommerce through the...
XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
InsurBanc Notes One-Year Anniversary
May 10 2002 // InsurBanc, the federal savings bank developed by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) to serve independent agents and brokers and their clients, has marked its first anniversary. “As we...
PIANJ Joins Coalition for Auto Insurance Reform
May 9 2002 // The Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition announced that the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey (PIANJ) has joined the Coalition in the effort to bring much needed reform to the state’s auto insurance...
Superior Access Unveils Online Comparative Quoting, Application Feature
May 9 2002 // In addition to a newly redesigned Web site, California-based Superior Access Insurance Services, Inc., has unveiled a new on-line comparative quoting and application feature for its 8,000 appointed agents writing home and...
PIANH To Hold Annual Conference
May 8 2002 // Th e Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc. will convene its 2002 Annual Conference on Wednesday, May 22, at the Marriott Courtyard and Grappone Conference Center in Concord. Current market conditions,...
ASPN President and CEO Addresses Fair’s Success, Challenges
May 7 2002 // Jerry Tegan Tucson—Networking is essential in any business. In the insurance field, it can be critical for the independent agent to be successful or not. Following last week’s Aon Specialty Product Network...
Insurance Noodle Adds N.M. to Fold
May 7 2002 // InsuranceNoodle has achieved its goal of being licensed to sell small business insurance in every state in the continental United States, with the recent addition of New Mexico to the fold. “With the licensing of New...
ASPN Resource Fair Networks New Connections
May 6 2002 // Industry employees take advantage of ASPN’s Exhibit Hall to make new contacts. Tucson—Don Gwizdalski, executive vice president for California-based Dodge, Warren & Peters, said he has a new perspective...
IIABA Notes Dates for Sept. New Orleans Infoxchange
May 6 2002 // Just four months remain until the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s (IIABA) New Orleans InfoXchange, which will be held Sept. 21-24 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside and the nearby Ernest N....
