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The Future for Independent Insurance Agencies
Sep 20 2010 // Proactively Manage Your Future and Be Ready for Change I believe the future of independent insurance agencies is at a tipping point. A number of forces are pushing agencies toward the precipice of major change. A few of...
North Carolina Association Names Young Agent of the Year
Sep 16 2010 // The Young Agents Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) announced the association’s Young Agent of the Year, Broker of the Year and Company of the Year Awards for 2010. These awards...
InVEST Names Three New Board Members
Sep 2 2010 // InVEST, an insurance industry classroom to career education program founded by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), named three new members to its national board: Joey...
TV and Radio Advertising: Texas Agency Makes It Work
Aug 12 2010 // Is advertising on radio and television a cost-effective way to help expand an independent insurance agent’s book of business? It may not be for everybody, but Criss Sudduth says a one-two punch of broadcast ads have...
Beacon Mutual Joins Big I’s Branding Campaign
Aug 12 2010 // Rhode Island-based workers’ compensation insurer Beacon Mutual has joined the “Trusted Choice” consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers created by the Big I. Beacon, the...
Top 100 2010 Privately-Held Independent Agencies
Aug 2 2010 // About This Report: The economy and soft insurance market continued to hammer some of the nation’s leading independent insurance agencies in 2009. Property/casualty premiums written fell for 37 percent of the...
Smith Named Missouri Insurance Agents’ Person of the Year
Jul 29 2010 // Dennis Smith of Columbia, Mo., has been honored as the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents’ Insurance Person of the Year. The award was given at MAIA’s annual Leadership Conference on July 22. Smith...
Big ‘I’ Markets Introduces Fine Arts, Valuables Product
Jul 28 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America Big “I” Markets program can now offer access to a new stand-alone fine arts and valuable articles policies. The new program offers tailored products and...
Webinar to Help P/C Agents Benefit from Health Insurance Boom Under Reform Law
Jul 19 2010 // For independent insurance agents, upcoming healthcare reform could be an opportunity to gain a bigger share of the health insurance and benefits market, provided they can properly advise their customers about their...
R-T Specialty Acquires Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers
Jul 19 2010 // R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group LLC based in Chicago, has acquired Los Angeles-based Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC. Chartwell, founded in September 2004 by Ben Beazley,...
How P&C Agents Can Benefit from Upcoming Health Insurance Boom
Jul 7 2010 // For independent insurance agents, upcoming healthcare reform could be an opportunity to gain a bigger share of the health insurance and benefits market, provided they can properly advise their customers about their...
10 New York Students Among 58 InVEST Scholarship Winners
Jul 7 2010 // InVEST, the insurance industry’s career education program, has awarded $56,500 in scholarships to 58 college-bound students pursuing insurance-related degrees, including 10 students from New York. Patrick Moore,...
Webinar to Help P&C Agents Benefit from Health Insurance Boom Under Reform Law
Jul 1 2010 // For independent insurance agents, upcoming healthcare reform could be an opportunity to gain a bigger share of the health insurance and benefits market, provided they can properly advise their customers about their...
Texas Association Honors Outstanding Insurance Agents
Jun 23 2010 // Corpus Christi, Texas independent insurance agent Wallace C. (Wally) Goodman has won the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ Drex Foreman Award, and Landon Ogilvie, partner at Gans & Smith Agency in Longview,...
Wood Elected President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas
Jun 22 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011. Other newly...
Submit Today: Insurance Journal Top 100 Agencies
Jun 11 2010 // Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Top Overall Independent...
Oregon Insurance Industry To Recognize Customer Service Reps
Jun 10 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Oregon (IIABO) is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Accredited Customer Service Representative of the Year award, which recognizes an employee for his or her...
Infinity Insurance Selects Leads360 to Provide Lead Management for Independent Agents
Jun 7 2010 // Infinity Auto Insurance has announced the addition of Leads360 to its Infinity Perks Web site, where Infinity’s appointed independent agents will now have access to Leads360’s lead management software and...
Texas Agency Named Trusted Choice Agency of the Month
Jun 7 2010 // The Hill County Insurance Agency, located in Hillsboro, Texas, has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by Trusted Choice, the consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. Hill...
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Jun 7 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc. Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...
