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Missouri Passes Reciprocal Agent Licensing Bill; Legislative Session Ends
May 23 2000 // Missouri has become just the second state this year to pass legislation streamlining insurance producer licensing, action that 27 other states must take by November 2002 to meet a federal mandate. The Missouri legislature...
Federal Agents Raid Insurance Offices in Four States
May 22 2000 // Six insurance businesses in four states have been searched by federal agents looking for evidence of fraud involving viatical settlements. Agencies in Lexington, Ky., Grand Rapids and Byron, Mich., Lorain and Loveland,...
InsureConnection.com Launches Site; Aims to Connect Agents and Consumers
May 22 2000 // InsureConnection.com has launched its new site for insurance shoppers, allowing online consumers to compare personal insurance quotes from a variety of companies. Quotes are currently available for life, auto and property,...
Summit Bancorp Forms New Jersey’s Largest Brokerage
May 17 2000 // Summit Bancorp has formed Summit Insurance Advisors, a consolidation of several long-established New Jersey-based insurance brokerage and consulting organizations—Meeker Sharkey Financial Group, W.M. Ross & Co.,...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUTOMATION: The Past, Present and Future of the Industry
May 15 2000 // In 1981, IBM introduced its personal computer (PC) for use in the home, office and schools. Prior to that time, there had been several MS-DOS compatible personal computers that ran DOS programs. As computers became more...
Data Mining vs. Privacy
May 15 2000 // Trolling for new business leads has been the bane of insurance agents for decades. Electronic data mining has eased the pain, but there are many gray areas as the call for consumer privacy grows louder. It was a bet with a...
Online Certificate Systems Reap Benefits for Agents and Consumers
May 15 2000 // Large commercial insurance agencies, issuing perhaps tens of thousands of certificates of insurance per year, often face a dilemma: how can the process be made more efficient and effective? However, technological...
Texas Independent Agents to Gather in Dallas for IIAT ConventionSpecial tracks for young agents, C
May 15 2000 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ annual convention kicks off June 8-10 at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas. The opening day will include a full lineup of innovative and practical workshops presented by...
SEMCI: Paper Free this Century’
May 15 2000 // Sure, independent agencies offer a choice of markets. That’s a nice benefit. But it also means you must key in customer information more than once in different formats and screens to accommodate the various...
E-Commerce initiative Work to Steadily Transfirm the Industry
May 15 2000 // Insurers have been inundated by a flood of e-commerce initiatives and cataclysmic scenarios about the transformation which technology is set to bestow (or impose) on the industry. The reality becomes clearer every day....
Online Certificate Systems Reap Benefits for Agents and Consumers
May 15 2000 // Large commercial insurance agencies, issuing perhaps tens of thousands of certificates of insurance per year, often face a dilemma: how can the process be made more efficient and effective? However, technological...
ACORD Technology Conference 2000 To ‘E-merge’ in Orlando
May 15 2000 // Evolve, Emerge, E-magine” will be the theme of the ACORD Technology Conference 2000, to be held at the Contemporary Resort Hotel at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., May 21-24. Rick Gilman, vice president-communications...
President Clinton Honors IIAA Past Pres. at Conference
May 15 2000 // A typically charismatic speech by President Bill Clinton was the highlight of an already stellar 24th Annual National Legislative Conference for the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA). The President appeared at...
Getting Automated: How One Agency Streamlined Its Work Flow
May 15 2000 // In today’s fast-paced, high-tech world, an agency management system-one that is built with technology that defines the future of the insurance automation industry-is a crucial part of an independent agency’s...
Agency Management SystemsIn Their Own Words
May 15 2000 // Very few agencies tell short stories about agency management systems. ItÕs usually more of a trial-and-error tale that includes a series of purchases, regret and, in many cases, a happy ending that is contingent on...
Independent Currents: SEMCI, Paper-Free this Century’
May 15 2000 // Sure, independent agencies offer a choice of markets. That’s a nice benefit. But it also means you must key in customer information more than once in different formats and screens to accommodate the various...
Making a Sales Call on Capitol Hill
May 15 2000 // “You’ve got to go to this conference, you can’t miss it,” IIAA vice president-public affairs Jeff Myers told me repeatedly. So, on April 30 I hopped on a red-eye flight to attend the Independent...
SEMCI: Paper-Free this Century’
May 15 2000 // Sure, independent agencies offer a choice of markets. That’s a nice benefit. But it also means you must key in customer information more than once in different formats and screens to accommodate the various...
Agency Management Systems In Their Own Words
May 15 2000 // Very few agencies tell short stories about agency management systems. It’s usually more of a trial-and-error tale that includes a series of purchases, regret and, in many cases, a happy ending that is contingent on...
AB 2639 To Be Heard May 10 in Calif. Assembly Insurance Committee
May 9 2000 // AB 2639 (Calderon) will be heard on May 10. The bill was originally scheduled for hearing on April 12, but was pulled from the calendar after last-minute opposition from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) and the...
