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How Important is Your IT Person to You’ TechRepublic Can Help
Nov 27 2000 // With computers, networks, extranets, intranets, mobile computing, telecommuting and information systems now a necessary part of everyday business, I have to ask: “How important is your information technology (IT)...
Lloyd’s, IUA, London Brokers Agree on Reforms
Nov 21 2000 // After a seven-month dialogue Lloyd’s, the International Underwriting Association and the Lloyd’s Insurance Brokers’ Committee have reached agreement on basic reforms of the way business is to be conducted...
Minnesota Agents Voice Concern Over Credit Ratings
Nov 21 2000 // A growing number of insurance companies operating in Minnesota are using credit-rating scores to establish premiums for car drivers and homeowners. This means that in certain situations people with poor credit histories...
Artisan Contractor
Nov 20 2000 // Class Strong Despite construction Defect Litigation, Hardening Market and Slowing economy The building boom across much of the country resulting from nearly 10 years of economic expansion has also resulted in a business...
Dallas Agents Prepare For All Industry Day
Nov 20 2000 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas and the Dallas Chapter of the Society of CPCU will host its 10th annual All Industry Day on Nov. 21 at the Hotel Inter-Continental in north Dallas. Over 55 exhibitors are...
Predictions for the 2001 Auto Market’
Nov 20 2000 // Predictions for the 2001 Auto Market? Enforcing Uninsured Driver Laws Should Be A Top Agenda Item What will the Texas auto market look like in 2001? The question is being asked at every professional meeting, on every golf...
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...
