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Agents: Last Chance to Rate Regional Carriers in Insurance Journal-Sponsored Research
May 14 2009 // Channel Harvest Research and Insurance Journal have announced a major new study in the Independent Agency System will be closing soon. Agents still have an opportunity to take the survey, which is probing their attitudes...
Insurance Journal Launches Online Ad Showcase
May 8 2009 // Insurance Journal launched a new online service for full page advertisers of Insurance Journal magazine, a biweekly magazine for property/casualty insurance agents and brokers delivered to more than 42,000 businesses...
Agents and Brokers: Deadline to Submit for IJ’s Top 100, June 1
May 5 2009 // Insurance Journal is on the search for the nation’s leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Now,...
2009 Super Regional P/C Insurers™
May 4 2009 // The original criteria and objective definition for Super Regional P/C Insurers™ were established in the Feb. 12, 2007 issue of Insurance Journal. Prior to the establishment of an industry-wide definition, a number of...
Agents, Rate Your Regional Carriers in a New Insurance Journal Sponsored Survey
May 4 2009 // Channel Harvest Research and Insurance Journal have announced a major new study in the independent agency system that will probe agents’ attitudes toward carrier relationships and the insurance companies they...
Insurance Journal on Facebook
Apr 15 2009 // Now there’s one more way to stay in touch with Insurance Journal. Become a fan of Insurance Journal Facebook and stay up-to-date on the economic, competitive, legal, political and regulatory forces and trends...
Insurance Journal on Facebook
Apr 14 2009 // Now there’s one more way to stay in touch with Insurance Journal. Become a fan of Insurance Journal Facebook and stay up-to-date on the economic, competitive, legal, political and regulatory forces and trends...
Agents to Rate Regional Carriers in New Insurance Journal Sponsored Research
Apr 2 2009 // Channel Harvest Research and Insurance Journal have announced a major new study in the Independent Agency System, to be fielded in April, that will probe agents’ attitudes toward carrier relationships and the...
Operational Efficiency Should Be Priority No. 3 for Agency Managers
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in the current hard economy and soft market requires agents to set priorities. In the Jan. 28, 2009, issue of Insurance Journal, Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and...
Operational Efficiency Should Be Priority No. 3 for Agency Managers
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in the current hard economy and soft market requires agents to set priorities. In the Jan. 28, 2009, issue of Insurance Journal, Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and...
Operational Efficiency Should Be Priority No. 3 for Agency Managers
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in today’s economy and soft market forces agents to set priorities. Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and distribution at The Hartford, who oversees his...
Systematic Sales Strategy Should Be Priority No. 2 for Agency Managers
Feb 8 2009 // In this hard economy coupled with the soft market, most agencies expect sales and revenues to go down. Even the best performers feel the downward trend in premiums. According to Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for...
Start-Up Stories: How New Agencies Are Competing
Feb 8 2009 // A Crop of Newly-Formed Agencies Is Defying the Hard Economy and Soft Market The independent insurance agency system is enjoying a resurgence. For years, the number of agencies in the country had been declining but that...
Systematic Sales Strategy Should Be Priority No. 2 for Agency Managers
Feb 8 2009 // In this hard economy coupled with the soft market, most agencies expect sales and revenues to go down. Even the best performers feel the downward trend in premiums. According to Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for...
Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority? Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution...
Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority? Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution...
Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
Jan 25 2009 // In this economy, there are many things that agents should be looking at in terms of how they manage their agencies, but what should be the top priority? Juan Andrade is executive vice-president for sales and distribution...
New North Carolina Insurance Chief Agrees Beach Plan Needs Help
Dec 1 2008 // North Carolina’s new insurance chief agrees with insurance industry critics that the state’s backup wind insurance pool, known as the Beach Plan, needs shoring up. “I have described our Beach Plan or...
McCain Beats Obama — in Insurance Journal Poll
Nov 4 2008 // If insurance industry professionals were choosing the next president of the United States, Republican John McCain would be the victor. While most polls of the general electorate give Democrat Barack Obama a lead going into...
Custom Video Generates More Traffic to Agent Websites
Nov 3 2008 // SAN DIEGO – (November 3, 2008) – Online video is booming. By 2012 nearly 50 percent of all Internet traffic will be to online videos, according to Cisco Systems. This online video boom can be a benefit to...
