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- Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:34 am
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Looking to buy used CPCU study materials
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19220
Re: Looking to buy used CPCU study materials
Scott Simmonds, CPCU, ARM, CMC Insurance Assurance Consultant Insurance Consulting Site Insurance Career Mentoring Site Insurance Blog Six Figure Insurance Commissions - Pub Date 9/30/09 Hearkening to the spirit of the original subject line, "...used...study materials" If anyone purchases...
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:04 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Looking to buy used CPCU study materials
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19220
Re: Looking to buy used CPCU study materials
goodluck88 wrote:Now that I have my ARM designation, I am trying to get my CPCU in less than a year.
Sigh.
- Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:45 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Looking to buy used CPCU study materials
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19220
Re: Looking to buy used CPCU study materials
Does the AICPCU exist to promote insurance knowledge, ethics, and the designation, or to sell books and create cost hurdles to enter the program? It's hard to imagine an effort being made to ban potential students who fall below an arbitrary income threshold from seeking and obtaining the designati...
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:02 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Purchasing X-Date Data
- Replies: 25
- Views: 108520
Re: Purchasing X-Date Data
Here is an excerpt from London's Insurance Solutions: "By analyzing insurance agency profiles, LIS is able to target commercial businesses by employee size, demographic and premium and generate points of contact for agencies. At LIS, we believe that there is a strategy to successful market targ...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:41 pm
- Forum: Hard-to-Place Accounts
- Topic: Residential New Construction Contractor/Pulte Homes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9264
Re: Residential New Construction Contractor/Pulte Homes
Haven't heard of Pulte, but I gotta ask...why are you so concerned about an account with this profile? "...and my guy was just non-renewed for bad payment with prior standard market, adverse D&B, etc. and had to go to the E/S market." Most of the markets I am dealing with don't non-ren...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:30 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Study tips for the California Life Agent Exam
- Replies: 18
- Views: 61131
- Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:40 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Depreciation and Betterment in Claim Settlement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6301
Re: Depreciation and Betterment in Claim Settlement
Was the property insured on an Actual Cash Value or Replacement Cost basis?
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:18 am
- Forum: Hard-to-Place Accounts
- Topic: Mobile Homes in Midwest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2814
Re: Mobile Homes in Midwest
As you have already determined, there simply aren't that many carriers interested in writing wind debris, uh, I mean mobile homes in Tornado Alley. American Modern Home and Foremost appear to be the lead carriers for mobile homes, but Allrisks, Ltd., Burns & Wilcox, and the other leading E&S...
- Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:48 am
- Forum: Hard-to-Place Accounts
- Topic: Mobile Homes in Midwest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2814
Re: Mobile Homes in Midwest
What state are you located in and where are these mobile homes located?
- Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:42 am
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Sweep Accounts for Commissions Also?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3003
Re: Sweep Accounts for Commissions Also?
I will not list state specific rulings, but simply point out that these premiums are being swept out of trust accounts. It would seem to me that proper accounting practices would require that agent commissions and policyholder premium be kept separate, so commissions being swept into an account shou...
- Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:58 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Remember the give notice of late payment thread ..well
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4763
Re: Remember the give notice of late payment thread ..well
I certainly understand your position, but respectfully disagree. The “good Samaritan”—has ‘a duty to exercise due care in performance and is liable if (a) his failure to exercise care increases the risk of such harm," or (b) the "harm is suffered because of the other’s reliance upon the un...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:15 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: SIAA - Any Information?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1972
SIAA - Any Information?
Any information available from those of you who have or had joined the Stategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA)? Please...the good and the bad would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, so much! On edit: I found the prior posts concerning SIAA and other similar arrangements; so, unless you want to rav...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:58 am
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Remember the give notice of late payment thread ..well
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4763
Re: Remember the give notice of late payment thread ..well
Thanks, Etimer - good post! The warning I would take away from this citation is that we must exercise care in the process of notifying the insured (sticking to and verifying the facts of the issue in written or oral communication), so that he does not suffer harm as a result of our failure to exerci...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:40 am
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Questions from a new guy
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10410
Re: Questions from a new guy
Off your back?! You have got to be kidding us.
This is the agency principal, who is investing his resources in you in hopes that you will bring in business. You need to show him what you are doing on a weekly basis to satisfy his need for assurances. Deal with it.
This is the agency principal, who is investing his resources in you in hopes that you will bring in business. You need to show him what you are doing on a weekly basis to satisfy his need for assurances. Deal with it.
- Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:45 pm
- Forum: Opinions
- Topic: Questions from a new guy
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10410
Re: Questions from a new guy
New Guy, You need to be patient with the forum, your production numbers, and your boss. Your initial post was after 4 PM on a Friday - folks are headin' out for the weekend. As for me, I'm watching a slow Saturday evening pass by, decided to jump on the web, and happened upon your posting. I'm guess...