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Extended Deadline to Enter for Insurance Journal Top 100
Jun 25 2014 // Don’t miss out on your chance to become one of Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies. PLUS, now there’s an opportunity to be considered as Tomorrow’s Top 100 – these...
Why Some Young Agents Chose Insurance as a Career
May 1 2014 // The call to become an insurance agent is different for everyone. For Matthew Ostrow the call to become an independent agent came via social media. Thirty-year old Ostrow entered insurance just five months ago after a...
Young Agents Survey – Why They Chose Insurance
Apr 7 2014 // The call to become an insurance agent is different for everyone. For Matthew Ostrow the call to become an independent agent came via social media. Thirty-year old Ostrow entered insurance just five months ago after a...
Survey: Who’s Worth What in the Independent Agency System?
Mar 21 2014 // For the second year in row, salaries and total compensation rose in independent insurance agencies across the nation. That’s according to Insurance Journal’s annual Agency Salary Survey 2014. This year all...
Who’s Worth What in the Independent Agency System
Feb 24 2014 // Exclusive Survey Shows Compensation Up, Benefits Up With a Cost For the second year in a row, salaries and total compensation rose in independent insurance agencies across the nation. More agencies are offering health...
Insurance Journal Co-Sponsors Agency Research Project
Feb 21 2014 // Channel Harvest Research, in partnership with Insurance Journal, has launched a new study of the independent agency system, probing agents’ attitudes toward insurance carrier relationships and, in particular, the...
Infantino Named Education Director for Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance
Feb 6 2014 // Laurie Infantino, AFIS, CIC, CISC, CISR, ACSR, CRIS, has been named Education Director of Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance. The insurance education professional will focus on the quality of the instructors...
Agency Models: What Defines Today’s True Independent Agency
Jan 27 2014 // The conventional definition of an independent agent is an entrepreneur who owns his or her book of business and offers multiple carriers to service their clients. That is the simplified version, and it falls short of...
Agent Ted Gaines Eyes California Commissioner Seat
Sep 23 2013 // Editor’s note: This is part of a series on insurance professionals in politics. This is a national series. Some of the articles focused on the Western U.S. region can be read in the pages of this issue of Insurance...
Garamendi Says Economy Needs Insurance
Sep 23 2013 // Editor’s note: This is part of a series on insurance professionals in politics. This is a national series. Some of the articles focused on the Western U.S. region can be read in the pages of this issue of Insurance...
Insurance Pros in Politics: Agent Ted Gaines Eyes California Commissioner Seat
Sep 10 2013 // From agent to politician, state Sen. Ted Gaines wants back in the insurance business – this time as the state’s top regulator of the industry. Gaines, R-Roseville, recently announced he’s running for...
10 Things to Know About Residential Contractors
Sep 9 2013 // There is a key difference between an independent contractor and a subcontractor. An independent contractor relationship exists where there are two parties, such as the owner and the contractor. A subcontractor relationship...
Insurance Journal Searches for Best Agencies to Work For
Sep 4 2013 // Insurance Journal is on the search again for the best independent insurance agencies in the United States to work for and we hope you will consider nominating your agency today. You must be a current employee of the agency...
101 Sales & Marketing Ideas for Agencies
Aug 19 2013 // Insurance Journal has listened to readers, spoken with experts, combed through columns and articles and even searched outside insurance circles to find the best sales and marketing tips for independent agencies today. Here...
Insurance Journal’s New and Improved Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies Report
Aug 5 2013 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s new and improved Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies report. This year’s Top 100 features a number of agencies that are new to the list thanks to a change that ranks...
New and Improved
Aug 5 2013 // For nine years now Insurance Journal has strived to identify the nation’s leading privately held independent property/casualty insurance agencies in our annual Top 100 P/C Agencies special report. This year, we dug a...
Insurance Journal Co-Sponsors MarshBerry Market & Financial Survey
Jul 24 2013 // How are agencies targeting new business today? What do agencies want most from carriers? And just how much are agencies growing in current market conditions? These are some of the questions that a new industry survey plans...
Insurance Journal Co-Sponsors MarshBerry Market & Financial Survey
Jun 18 2013 // MarshBerry, in partnership with Insurance Journal, has launched its 28th Annual Market & Financial Outlook Survey. This exclusive survey compiles anonymous general agency information along with financial, market,...
50 Top Apps for Independent Agents
May 14 2013 // Mobility technology is changing the way the insurance industry operates. But when it comes to working on the go, nothing is as important as mobile device applications. But what apps do independent agents use most? What...
Fireman’s Fund Chief Tackles Sesquicentennial, Market
May 6 2013 // Choosing an historic icon that stood after San Francisco’s great earthquake and massive fire more than 100 years ago was a deft, almost poetic, public relations concept to celebrate Fireman’s Fund Insurance...
