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Cloyce Anders, Louise Canter Elected to IIAA Officer Posts
Jun 4 2001 // Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) National Board of State Directors confirmed W. Cloyce Anders as the association’s president-elect and elected Louise “Bebe” C. Canter, CPCU, ARM...
Who’s Who Across Texas, Local Associations at Work
Jun 4 2001 // Local associations across the state continue to contribute to their communities and their profession in a variety of ways. Following is a report on activities for the past year from those that responded to our queries...
Financial Services Integration: A Question of Privacy
Jun 4 2001 // Mailboxes throughout the West have been rapidly filling with literature outlining the “Privacy Policy” of virtually every organization that has ever taken a credit application. As the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...
Esurance to Provide Quoting, Binding of Auto Policies on Ebix.com
May 31 2001 // Esurance Inc., a national quote-to-claims Internet-based provider of personal auto insurance, announced an agreement with the insurance portal ebix.com Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Esurance will provide instant...
Cumberland Technologies and AMS Services Announce Integration of Bond-Pro® with AMS Sagitta Browser
May 30 2001 // Cumberland Technologies Inc., surety automation vendor and owner of Cumberland Casualty & Surety Company, and AMS Services, Inc., a developer of agency management systems, announced the integration of the Bond-Pro®...
Agents Must Comply with GLBA Despite Failure of California Bill
May 25 2001 // Agents and Brokers were notified recently that they are required to comply with consumer privacy portions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) despite the failure of a bill in the California legislature. Congress enacted...
XChange Insurance Network Goes National
May 24 2001 // XChange Insurance Network, a southeastern regional company for the past six years, expanded nationwide. The Internet network was designed to bring the consumer to the insurance agent for low cost insurance and...
Websites and Online Rating for Independent Agents from SAIS and FSC
May 24 2001 // Superior Access Internet Software Inc. (SAIS), a privately held, B2B Internet software development company targeting the insurance industry headquartered in Irvine, Calif., announced the creation of a strategic partnership...
Good People = Success, Progressive Study Finds
May 23 2001 // A new survey by Progressive Insurance revealed that independent agents feel an agency’s employees are the key factor to its success. The survey, which polled 702 of Progressive’s authorized independent agents...
Frontier Insurance Group and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance Sign MGA and Brokerage Agreements May
May 22 2001 // Medical Professional Liability Agency, Ltd a subsidiary of Frontier Insurance Group Inc, and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance (PRI), jointly announce that PRI had entered into agreements appointing Med Pro an MGA and...
IIAA Launches InsurBanc, Independent Insurance Agents to Offer Competitive Bank Products in Three States
May 21 2001 // The Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) announced the launch of InsurBanc, a unique federal savings bank that consumers can access through their hometown-based independent insurance agents. As approved by the...
Ohio Courses Available for Agents
May 21 2001 // The State of Ohio has given the go-ahead for a set of MindLeaders interactive online training courses which will allow insurance agents in the state to earn continuing education credits. MindLeaders, with more than 600...
AMS Users’ Group Hits the Right Key at Annual Conference
May 21 2001 // Three major forms of American music are deeply rooted in the rolling green landscape of Tennessee—blues, rock ‘n’ roll and, in the grand old city of Nashville, country. It’s no wonder then that the...
IIAA Names Jeffrey Yates as ACT Executive Director
May 21 2001 // Jeffrey M. Yates is the new executive director of the Agents Council for Tech-nology (ACT), announces Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) Chief Exec-utive Officer Robert A. Rusbuldt. Yates, who will begin his...
Lloyd’s Admits ‘Foreign’ Brokers, Ins-sure Services Launched
May 21 2001 // The London insurance market achieved two significant milestones recently with the admission to Lloyd’s membership of three non-U.K.-based brokers, and the launch of Ins-sure Services Ltd., which will assume the...
The Big ‘I’ Goes to Washington
May 21 2001 // It was a new year, a new administration, and a new round of visits on Capitol Hill. Although not as critical a legislation year as past years, the issues remained as pressing as ever, and the 800 attendees of the 25th...
Do You YouZoom’
May 21 2001 // Every year, when my policies come up for renewal, I always take time to mix a little business with pleasure. This year was no different—I called my agent and headed to the web as well. Among the sites for agents and...
BrokersPortal Restructures, Aims to Get Insurers on Board
May 21 2001 // Contrary to some rumors, BrokersPortal is not going out of business. It is, however, taking on a new look as it restructures operations and positions itself to be a major player. With a new investor and a new company on...
Ariz. Gets Serious About Securities
May 21 2001 // The Arizona Department of Insurance and the Arizona Corporation Commission’s Securities Division are coordinating enforcement efforts to address a growing number of cases involving the sale of fraudulent securities...
Agent Licensing Reform Progresses
May 21 2001 // The creation of a uniform agent and broker licensing system has made progress recently, but there is still work to be done, industry leaders warned at a hearing in Washington, D.C., on May 16. The hearing was held by the...
