Senate Links Agent Licensing Reform with Flood Insurance Delay January 21, 2014 By Andrew G. Simpson There is a new political wrinkle in the attempt to stave off flood insurance rate hikes across the country. The...
Big ‘I’ 2013 Best Practices Study Finds Increases in Specializations, Profitability November 15, 2013 The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) released its 2013 Best Practices Study which...
What to Know About NARAB or National Producer Licensing: Bissett of Big ‘I’ October 3, 2013 By Andrew G. Simpson If and when the federal government resumes operations, a multistate producer licensing reform bill long pushed by the country’s insurance...
New Hampshire’s Minkler New Chairman of Big ‘I’ September 30, 2013 New Hampshire independent agent Thomas J. Minkler has been inaugurated as the new chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents &...
Senate Committee Advances National Producer Licensing Reform Bill June 6, 2013 The Senate Banking Committee today voted to send an insurance producer licensing reform measure to the full Senate for consideration....
Agents Helping Agents in Recovery from Oklahoma Tornadoes May 29, 2013 By Stephanie K. Jones Twelve hundred homes damaged or destroyed, 33,000 people impacted and $2 billion in property losses. Those are damage estimates from...
Project CAP Selects Phoenix Agency for Agency 2020 Program May 20, 2013 Hester, Heitel & Associates, an independent insurance agency in Phoenix, has been chosen as the spotlight agency to represent Project...
Big ‘I’ Honors Illinois Agent for Work on Crop Insurance April 25, 2013 An Illinois agent has received an award from the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA or Big ‘I’)...
W.R. Berkley Corp. Divests, Connecticut Bank Acquires InsurBanc April 8, 2013 By Young Ha InsurBanc — a federal savings bank founded by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America and W.R. Berkley Corp....
Insurance Agents and the 2012 Election: Interview with Big I CEO Rusbuldt November 2, 2012 By Andrew G. Simpson When it comes to the 2012 presidential election, insurance agents have, as industry insiders like to say, “skin in the...