Latest Agencies Headlines
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Independent currents:Scary E&O Stories (Just in Time for Halloween!)
Oct 30 2000 // I’ve sat in classes taught by Jim Harrison (insert two dozen professional designations here), one of the best insurance educators in the country. He has this little shtick that wakes up the class. He tells an ugly...
European Online Brokers InsuranceCity, InsuranceWide Show the Way
Oct 30 2000 // “Right now we think we’re ahead of the States in [online] personal lines,” said James Harrison, Chief Operating Officer of the U.K.’s InsuranceWide (IW) www.insurancewide.com. He might be...
Independent currents Scary E&O Stories (Just in Time for Halloween!)
Oct 30 2000 // I’ve sat in classes taught by Jim Harrison (insert two dozen professional designations here), one of the best insurance educators in the country. He has this little shtick that wakes up the class. He tells an ugly...
Getting in the Thankful Mood
Oct 30 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,...
Former West Virginia Prudential Agent Sues over Company’s Alleged Quotas
Oct 27 2000 // A former Prudential agent sued the insurer in a West Virginia Circuit Court Wednesday, alleging the company’s quota system drove him out of business. Billy T. Bush Jr. became a Prudential insurance agent in 1992 and...
Corraling The Horse Market
Oct 23 2000 // With only 17 percent of the nation’s 6 million horses insured, the equine market is ripe for picking In today’s steady economy, equine insurance could be one of the best markets you’ve never thought about...
As Incoming IIAA President, Hofmann Ready to Promote One Voice For Agents
Oct 23 2000 // “My goal is not to start any new initiative, but to bring a bunch of the things that we’ve got out there to conclusion and to fruition and up-and-running.” —Bill Hofmann” After spending the past...
AGENTSECURE.COM LAUNCHES
Oct 23 2000 // AgentSecure.com has launched, providing agents access to carriers CNA, The Hartford, and Zurich. Rural and suburban agents who may not otherwise meet the volume requirements are now able to offer their customers standard...
Commercial Auto Rates Up; Sector Ripe for Rapid Change
Oct 23 2000 // Someone up above has been listening. How else can one explain the hardening market that has been the subject of thousands of prayers. Both agents and E&S vendors, then, should be doubly excited about the commercial...
Restraining the Departed’
Oct 23 2000 // When Agents Divorce Their Insurance Company Insurance companies and insurance brokerage houses (employers) use a variety of devices to try to prevent departing agents from competing against them. Sometimes smaller agencies...
WCC Online Hires Key Executives
Oct 18 2000 // WCC Online Inc., parent company of the WorkComp.Com resource for agents and brokers, has appointed two key executives: Gene Axtell as Vice President of Technology Services; and Mark Finnegan as Vice President of...
Oregon Revokes Gresham Agent’s License
Oct 16 2000 // Oct. 16, 2000 9:30 a.m. CDT
JD Power’s Auto Insurance Study Goes National, Rates Customer Satisfaction
Oct 16 2000 // After testing the waters last year with its first annual California Auto Insurance Satisfaction Study, J.D. Power & Associates decided to take to the road and make this year’s survey national in...
AgentSecure.com Launches, Provides Access to CNA, The Hartford, Zurich
Oct 10 2000 // AgentSecure.com has launched, providing agents access to carriers CNA, The Hartford, and Zurich. Rural and suburban agents who may not otherwise meet the volume requirements are now able to offer their customers standard...
Utah Agencies Merge
Oct 10 2000 // Bonneville Brokers Inc., based in Murry, has merged with Salt Lake City’s American Insurance & Investment Corp, a 50-year-old agency that specializes in personal and commercial property and casualty insurance....
Southern Calif. Agent Scam Ring Investigated
Oct 9 2000 // A network of insurance agents is under investigation for allegedly taking more than $1 million from 200 Southern California senior citizens, according to a Los Angeles Times report. The alleged scam involved the sale of...
The Pioneering Women of TEXAS: How a generation of insurance women was born
Oct 9 2000 // On June 2, 1944 at 9:30 a.m. in the roof garden of the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, the first meeting of the Insurance Women of Texas was opened by call to order by Mrs. Ruth A. Fredde, president of the Insurance Women of...
An Agent’s Nightmare Continues
Oct 9 2000 // Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a story that appeared in our Sept. 25 issue. The first story described the facts of the case, up to the point of verdict and judgment. This column describes the verdict and...
Survey Reveals Stronger Agency System
Oct 9 2000 // Silicon Valley operatives like to gloat about a shrinking independent agency system. Today there are 42,000 independent agencies in the U.S., down from 46,000 in 1992. Nearly three out of 10 independent agencies have been...
MARINE AGENT BEACHED
Oct 9 2000 // A Kentucky insurance agent and agency have agreed to a $50,000 penalty for selling Texans millions of dollars worth of boat insurance without the special license required for placing business with Lloyd’s of London...
