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Two Hurt in Fire at Pennsylvania Pipe Manufacturing Plant
Apr 15 2010 // Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say two people were injured, one seriously, in a fire at a pipe manufacturing plant. The fire erupted after a furnace burst around 8:30 a.m. Monday at Victaulic Co. in Lower Macungie...
Four Injured in Partial Collapse at Brooklyn Construction Site
Mar 31 2010 // Authorities are investigating a partial collapse at a construction site in Brooklyn where four workers were injured, one seriously. The Fire Department of New York and the Buildings Department were investigating the...
Two Lawyers Named to Minnesota Auto Insurance Plan Governing Committee
Mar 9 2010 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Glenn Wilson has appointed two public members to the governing committee of the Minnesota Automobile Insurance Plan (MAIP). Thomas J. Evenson is an associate with Lind, Jensen, Sullivan...
Seven Steps to Selling Your Business
Mar 8 2010 // Owners of small businesses — like many insurance agencies — spend more time working on today’s issues than tomorrow’s potential. This may keep the doors open for now, but what about when they’re ready...
Four Steps to Using Agency Technology for Target Marketing
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
Four Steps to Using Agency Technology for Target Marketing
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
Six Experienced Execs Join Aon’s London Aviation Team
Feb 2 2010 // Aon announced that it has made six new appointments to its London-based General Aviation team, which specializes in industrial aid and commercial aircraft. “The appointments have been made to further improve business...
Two Execs Join Zurich’s Energy Casualty Business Unit
Jan 29 2010 // Insurer Zurich said it is expanding its presence in the U.S. energy casualty insurance market by adding two new executives to its Commercial Energy Casualty business unit. Greg Cropp, vice president of Energy Excess...
Seven Steps to Selling Your Business
Jan 24 2010 // Owners of small businesses — like many insurance agencies — spend more of their time working on today’s issues than tomorrow’s potential. It’s an approach that may keep the doors open for now,...
Six CAA Members Retain Best Practice Agencies Status for 2009
Jan 22 2010 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced six of its member agencies – Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts Insurance Agency, The Bridges Group Inc., Bryan Insurance Agency, Ed Berrong Insurance...
Four Agents Plead Guilty to Insurance Fraud in New Jersey
Jan 14 2010 // Four former insurance agents have pleaded guilty for their role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums, New Jersey’s attorney general said. They are Thomas Hurd, of Bensalem, Pa., William...
Seven Steps to Selling Your Business
Jan 10 2010 // Owners of small businesses – like many insurance agencies – spend more of their time working on today’s issues than tomorrow’s potential. It’s an approach that may keep the doors open for now,...
Two Proposals to Amend New New Hampshire Sprinkler Regulations
Jan 5 2010 // The New Hampshire Legislature is expected to consider two bills that would prevent the state from enforcing amendments to building codes that expand requirements for sprinkler systems. Last month the Building Code Review...
Three Key Drivers of Lead Conversion
Dec 22 2009 // The importance of converting leads is clear to anyone who understands the concept of ROI (return on investment). The internet has changed the game in insurance sales, and anyone thinking that the old business models will...
Six Factors Create Volatility in Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurance Market
Dec 18 2009 // “Since insurance rates were partially deregulated in 1995, the California workers’ compensation insurance market has been very volatile. For reasons that go beyond price deregulation, there have been dramatic...
One-Fourth of U.S. Adult Healthcare Costs Tied to Disabilities
Dec 11 2009 // Just over one-quarter of U.S. adult health care spending was associated with disability in 2006, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. The...
Two New Mexico Counties Get Disaster Aid
Dec 10 2009 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington has designated Grant and Luna counties in New Mexico as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by drought and high winds that occurred since Jan. 1. Agriculture...
One Thing Is Certain for Insurance Industry in Near Term: Uncertainty
Dec 8 2009 // The insurance industry may not see a return to relative stability and certainty for a few years as it reacts to the effects of regulatory reform, increased government intervention and potential tax law changes in the...
One Insurer Bets on Political Campaigns While Another Drops Out
Dec 6 2009 // While one company has gotten out of the business of insuring political campaigns, another is throwing its hat in the ring. Markel Risk Solutions, based in Glen Allen, Va., is offering campaigns a multiline, admitted...
Two Pennsylvania Insurance Agencies Merge
Dec 2 2009 // Pennsylvania insurance agencies, The Securus Group and The Dunlop Agency, have merged in a move they say is aimed at bolstering their market share in the Lehigh Valley and South Central regions of the state. The merged...
