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Progressive.com, Nextel Connect to Give Independent Agents Greater Visibility
Aug 14 2001 // Progressive Insurance and Nextel, a provider of fully integrated, all-digital wireless service, announced the availability of progressive.com on the Nextel Wireless Web. The agreement gives Progressive’s 30,000-plus...
Anderson & Murison Teams Up with singleentry.com
Aug 14 2001 // Anderson & Murison, a California-based managing general agency, has implemented singleentry.com’s technology to web-enable two key insurance programs, Commercial Casualty and Personal Umbrella. Through its...
Ohio Agent’s License Revoked
Aug 13 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington signed an order revoking the insurance license of Albert J. Henry of Milford (Clermont County), effective immediately. According to the Consent Order, Henry will...
InsuranceNoodle Now Offers Insurance Products from Chubb
Aug 13 2001 // InsuranceNoodle, a distributor of small business insurance through independent insurance agencies, has been selected by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies to distribute Innovator from Chubb(sm), an insurance product...
Microsoft’s ‘Virtual Team’ Takes Insurance to the Fast Track
Aug 13 2001 // It’s the twelfth round, and the technology industry has been badly battered—but it’s still in the ring and on its feet. Participants in the new economy that have held on thus far are forging ahead, priorities...
Brand Building Strategies
Aug 13 2001 // Mergers, consolidation and worldwide expansion greatly affect the way the insurance industry does business today. As boundaries collapse and markets change, there is a tool you can use to gain an edge over the competition....
Smaller Agencies Market Blueprint for Success
Aug 13 2001 // Making your mark “The State Farms and GEICOs have a tremendous amount of advertising behind them, and they have a brand name that perhaps the independent agents do not have,” said Allen Lawrence, CEO and...
e-Business Moving Slowly but Steadily in Wholesale Marketplace
Aug 13 2001 // The insurance industry is beginning to utilize technology to more efficiently conduct business, but that integration is a long, slow process, according to a panel of wholesalers and market leaders. Shand Morahan &...
TowerStreet Offers Insurance Agencies Free
Aug 9 2001 // TowerStreet, a provider of insurance software and services, is offering a free Web Tool Kit containing information, advice, and resources that insurance agencies can use to create and enhance their websites. TowerStreet...
ERIE Selects DWL to Provide Transactional
Aug 8 2001 // DWL Incorporated, a provider of transactional e-solutions, announced Erie Insurance Group has selected its solution. DWL will provide ERIE with industry-specific portals and a transactional CRM application to create a...
NAAA to Discuss Commission Action Before
Aug 8 2001 // The National Auto Agents Alliance (NAAA), who had announced plans to file suit against several insurance companies that had been cutting commissions, will comply with the wishes of several State Insurance Departments who...
New York Broker Arrested For Alleged Sale of Bogus Policies
Aug 7 2001 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio along with Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, New York City Police Department Bernard B. Kerik, and New York State Worker’s Compensation...
SAFECO Initiates New Worksite
Aug 7 2001 // SAFECO announced that customers can now buy personal insurance for auto, home, boat and other property quickly and easily at work with payroll deductions, through a new worksite marketing program initiated by the...
Agents and Coverage Opinions
Aug 6 2001 // Insurance intermediaries—agents, brokers, and the like—do all sorts of things for their customers and clients. They help them select coverages. They help select insurers. They shop for price. They prepare applications....
Brand Building Strategies
Aug 6 2001 // Mergers, consolidation and worldwide expansion greatly affect the way the insurance industry does business today. As boundaries collapse and markets change, there is a tool you can use to gain an edge over the competition....
The Magic and the Power of Brand Positioning
Aug 6 2001 // If you are like most owners of retail agencies, you get tired of hearing about this new marketing tactic called “branding” that will someday revolutionize the way you are supposed to market. Too many marketing...
BOP Market Expands Profits and Proves Itself ‘Internet Friendly’
Aug 6 2001 // The Business Owners Policy (BOP) has been around for at least a couple of decades now. BOPs are traditionally associated with small businesses seeking basic liability and property coverages. But over the course of the...
InsureZone Rolls Out BrokerSecure
Aug 6 2001 // Fort Worth’s Internet-based insurance agency, InsureZone, announced the launch of BrokerSecure, a service designed to help regional agencies and national brokers handle small commercial books of business while...
Lloyd’s Grants Independent U.S. Brokers First-Ever Access
Aug 6 2001 // Officials with Lloyd’s of London announced the names of the first-ever independent brokers in the U.S. to be accredited for direct access to the London-based insurance market. The historic selection of The Hanleigh...
Anthony Clark International Insurance Brokers Announces Acquisition
Aug 3 2001 // Anthony Clark International Insurance Brokers Ltd. (Toronto) announced that it has acquired 779451 Alberta Ltd., an independent general insurance brokerage representing approximately $1,000,000 in premiums and located in...
