Idaho News

NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR W/C

Advantage Workers’ Compensation Insurance Company of Salt Lake City was named the underwriting partner of Boise-based WorkCare NorthWest, a partnership expected to make Advantage Insurance one of the largest workers’ compensation insurers in Idaho by July 2002. Advantage Insurance, which …

InsuranceNoodle Joins with Woolard Gioia Blundell Associates to Develop Products

InsuranceNoodle, an online distributor of small business insurance through independent agencies, has engaged Woolard Gioia Blundell Associates as a strategic partner to assist in developing specifications for a range of new products to complement its current line-up of commercial insurance …

Advantage Insurance Teams Up with WorkCare NorthWest

Advantage Workers’ Compensation Insurance Company of Salt Lake City was named the underwriting partner of Boise-based WorkCare NorthWest, a partnership expected to make Advantage Insurance one of the largest workers’ compensation insurers in Idaho by July 2002. Advantage Insurance, which …

Fireman’s Fund Liberalizes Scheduled Valuable Possessions as Convenience to Vacationing Shoppers

Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company announced it has liberalized its Scheduled Valuable Possessions coverage to afford affluent clients greater convenience and extra protection without extra cost when insuring valuables, such as jewelry, fine art, collectibles, silver and the like. According to …

PAULA, GNU Begin Process Toward Eventual Consolidation

Pasadena, Calif.-based PAULA Financial (PAULA) and the managing general agency Great Northern Underwriters (GNU) of Portland, Ore., recently entered into a partnership, the first step of which entails the incorporation of PAULA’s Oregon underwriting personnel into GNU’s operations. The long-term …

The Middleton Group Releases its Biannual Compensation Survey: How Does Your Agency Compare’

Not surprisingly, compensation continues to be the single largest agency expense. The average independent agency in the U.S. spent between 62.2 percent and 66.3 percent on compensation in 2000, according to The Middleton Group’s biannual Compensation Survey. Some 2.3 million …

NAMIC Survey Shows Most States Will Not Meet GLBA Deadline

Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) shows. …

NAII Notes Build in Momentum as 25 States Sign Producer Licensing Bills

With over a year remaining on the November 2002 deadline, 25 state legislatures have enacted reciprocal producer licensing laws while bills in another 11 states are awaiting the governors’ signatures. The producer licensing legislation passing in states around the country …

How Does Your Agency Compare’ The Middleton Group biannual compensation survey

Not surprisingly, compensation continues to be the single largest agency expense. The average independent agency in the U.S. spent between 62.2 percent and 66.3 percent on compensation in 2000, according to The Middleton Group’s biannual Compensation Survey. +20% CT DC …

Most States Will Not Meet GLBA Deadline, NAMIC Survey Says

Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) shows. …