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FAIA: Employment Crisis Threatens Agencies
Dec 4 2005 // An impending employment crisis is threatening independent insurance agents and will become disastrous by 2010 unless employers act now, Lisa Harrington, Florida Association of Insurance Agents vice president of education...
Tips to Fast Forward Your Career: Coaching Versus Mentoring
Dec 4 2005 // Many people in business today are looking to improve their skills, grow both personally and professionally, and achieve peak performance in their careers. Although there are several ways to reach those goals-formal...
Major Insurers, Non-Profits Launch Community-based Healthcare Initiative Impact
Dec 4 2005 // Impact Community Capital LLC, a consortium of major insurance companies, and NCB Development Corp. (NCBDC) have teamed up to offer as much as $50 million in low-interest loans to community health clinics that serve...
Drive Insurance Helps Fund Virginia Big ‘I’ Education Institute Building
Nov 30 2005 // Karen Barone, Virginia product manager for Drive Insurance from Progressive recently presented Tom Welch, president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia, with a check for $25,000, as part of a $50,000 commitment...
Liberty Mutual Launches Online Business Interruption Training Tool
Nov 29 2005 // Liberty Mutual Property has launched online training capabilities for business interruption coverage, designed to address the most confusing and complicated aspect of property insurance. The Web-based training program...
UN Climate Conference Begins; CO² Levels Highest in 650,000 Years
Nov 28 2005 // The United Nations 2005 Climate Change Conference gets under way in Montreal today – the first such meeting to be held since the Kyoto Agreement came into force earlier this year, and the largest gathering since the...
Firemen Fight Blaze at Hurricane Wilma Miami-Dade County, Fla. Debris Site
Nov 23 2005 // A four-story high pile of Hurricane Wilma debris caught fire on Wednesday at a staging area on Dove Avenue in Miami Springs, Fla. According to NBC6-TV in Miami, the fire sent a huge plume of smoke into the air over...
CII to Establish First Office in the Mliddle East
Nov 23 2005 // The U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) announced that it is to establish an office in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) early in 2006, its first permanent base in the region. “The office...
Insurers, Nonprofits Offer Low-Income Loans to Health Clinics
Nov 22 2005 // Impact Community Capital, a consortium of major insurance companies, and NCB Development Corp. (NCBDC) have teamed to offer as much as $50 million in low-interest loans to community health clinics that have difficulty...
FAIA WEB SITE UPGRADED
Nov 21 2005 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents in Tallahassee recently unveiled a new and improved version of its Web site at www.faia.com. Jennifer Pitts, FAIA webmaster said anyone using the site for research should be...
Your New Employee is About to Start, Now What?
Nov 21 2005 // (Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles offering “best practices” suggestions for the hiring process in the independent agency. More information is available at iiat.org under Agency...
Your New Employee is About to Start, Now What?
Nov 20 2005 // After a long search, your agency has finally found the right employee. Intelligent, the right attitude, solid background. So what do you do with them now? There is so much they need to learn, but how do they get...
James Discusses Challenges Facing Lloyd’s at Xchanging Conference
Nov 18 2005 // In a speech on Nov. 17, given at a conference sponsored by insurance service provider Xchanging, Julian James, Lloyd’s Director of world-wide markets, stressed that the London market faced continuing challenges in...
Arkansas Workers’ Comp Commission Announces ’06 Conference Plans
Nov 10 2005 // The AWCC announced plans for two important conferences for 2006, one in Little Rock and the other in Hot Springs. The AWCC reported with Arkansas Self-Insurers Association (ASIA) that, instead of the ASIA Spring Fling and...
ELANY Selects Nunez to Direct Communications, Education
Nov 9 2005 // The Excess Line Association of New York has appointed Louis E. Nunez as director of communications and education. Nunez will undertake responsibility for public relations, media projects and publications and be reporting...
Value Added Services Stand Out from the Pack
Nov 7 2005 // Most consumers buy on price and not value. True or False? The vast majority of insurance salespeople would tend to believe there is a lot of truth in the above statement–despite any well-programmed responses from...
Harrington Tells FAIA: Employment Crisis Major Threat to Agencies
Nov 7 2005 // An impending employment crisis threatens independent insurance agencies and will become disastrous by 2010 unless employers act now, Lisa Harrington, Florida Association of Insurance Agents vice president of Education,...
IIAG OFFERS FLOOD INSURANCE EDUCATION
Nov 7 2005 // Flood insurance education to meet National Flood Insurance Program requirements is being offered by the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia as part of its ongoing continuing education offerings. An IIAG spokesperson...
Using a Marketing Approach to Recruiting Employees
Nov 7 2005 // This is the first in a series of articles offering “best practices” for the hiring process in the independent agency. More information is available at: www.iiat.org, under Agency Management. The lifeblood of...
Harrington Tells FAIA: Employment Crisis Major Threat to Agencies
Nov 6 2005 // An impending employment crisis threatens independent insurance agents and will become disastrous by 2010 unless employers act now, Lisa Harrington, Florida Association of Insurance Agents vice president of Education, told...
