Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Editor’s Note
Nov 20 2000 // When I began listening to Steve Anderson speak at last week’s TSLA meeting in Austin, I honestly didn’t think I would come away enlightened. No offense to Steve—a home-grown agent turned...
Ohio DOI Unveils Redesigned Consumer Website
Nov 17 2000 // Lee Covington, Director of the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI), announced today that the Department has redesigned its website, www.ins.state.oh.us, to be even more user friendly for Ohio citizens and has expanded the...
Calif. Broker Fee Regulations Set to Take Effect
Nov 16 2000 // The new California Department of Insurance broker fee regulations will go into effect on Nov. 23. The regulations require that agents use a Standard Broker Fee Disclosure Form and Standard Broker Fee Agreement when a...
American Agents Alliance to Hold Compliance Meeting
Nov 16 2000 // The American Agents Alliance announced that on Nov. 28, Santa Ana, Calif., local meeting chairperson Maria Palmer will host a meeting on mandatory enforcement featuring guests from the California Department of Motor...
CDI Revokes License of Bakersfield Insurance Agent
Nov 15 2000 // California Insurance Commissioner Harry W. Low announced the insurance license revocation of Bakersfield agent Jack Laverna Nation Jr. The revocation follows a Cease and Desist Order issued against the agent by the...
Glamour & Risk: Insuring HollywoodProduction Companies
Nov 13 2000 // For many film lovers, the holiday season is synonymous with the release of Hollywood’s latest screen confections. As production companies scramble to satiate the consumer appetite for thrilling visual effects and...
Safeco Launches Initiatives, Reports Improved 3Q
Nov 13 2000 // After taking a small step backward last quarter with disappointing results, Seattle-based Safeco reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2000. According to Boh Dickey, president and chief operating...
Diversity is Key Theme at Big ‘I’, Jackson calls for Minority Market Participation
Nov 13 2000 // The Reverend Jesse Jackson is not your typical speaker at your typical insurance industry gathering. But the Independent Insurance Agents of America aren’t afraid to do things differently, and they proved it again at...
Getting in the Thankful Mood
Nov 13 2000 // As we head into the holiday season, we turn our thoughts to what we are thankful for. For me, I have become a father again. My son Jack was born just a couple of weeks ago. He’s a little Chivvis all right,...
On the Road Again
Nov 6 2000 // Insurance Dot-Coms Shift Increasingly Toward the Agent In the fast-paced environment of Internet insurance, any attempt to define trends and categorize business models on the information highway can be an exercise in...
It’s About the Money
Nov 6 2000 // Rev. Jesse Jackson issued a challenge to the agents present at the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s annual meeting last week: Take off the blinders and see that a multicultural clientele is economically...
Former Red Bluff Insurance Agent Gets Prison Term, Fine
Nov 3 2000 // A Tehama County Superior Court judge sentenced David Michael Chene, a former Red Bluff insurance agent to nine years in state prison on Nov. 1. Chene was also ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution plus 10 percent interest...
Insurance Broker Aon to Cut 3,000 Jobs
Nov 2 2000 // Aon Corp. reported today it will cut 3,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its work force, and take up to $325 million in charges over the next few quarters in an effort to overhaul its operations. Aon’s third-quarter profits,...
L.A. Woman, Former Broker Charged with Selling Insurance Without License
Nov 2 2000 // Following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Investigations Bureau and the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Mirna Angelica Alfaro, 30, of Los Angeles was arrested on Oct. 31 on charges of...
IIAA Unveils New Agency Universe Study; Finds Growth, Stable Consolidation for Agents
Nov 1 2000 // The last four years have been a period of financial growth and agent consolidation, according to the 2000 Agency Universe Study, a study of the independent agency system conducted by Future One, a cooperative effort of the...
C. Courtney Wood Presented Woodworth Memorial Award
Nov 1 2000 // Past President C. Courtney Wood, CPCU, ARM, was presented the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) highest individual honor-the Woodworth Memorial Award-during the closing session of the...
IBStv to Offer Videos on ebix.com’s Insurance
Oct 30 2000 // Insurance Broadcast System has enhanced its partnership with ebix.com and will now provide three Internet video-based educational and marketing tools to insurance and financial planning professionals through www.ebix.com....
Young Agents Committee of Indiana Named 2000 Outstanding
Oct 30 2000 // The Indiana Young Agents Committee was one of several state associations that were honored with national awards of excellence at IIAA’s 2000 Young Agents Leadership Conference, held Oct. 28-30 at the Orlando World...
IIAA Honors 2000 National Awards Program
Oct 30 2000 // Top honors in the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s 2000 National Awards Program were presented today to the Independent Insurance Agents of New Mexico, the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma, and the...
Houston Bestows IIAA Presidential Citations
Oct 30 2000 // Independent Insurance Agents of America President William M. Houston, CPCU, ARM, today bestowed special IIAA Presidential Citations to several deserving individuals for their outstanding contributions on behalf of the...
