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Financial Keyosk Allows Agents to Tap Into Sales of Financial Services

Financial Keyosk, a growing online financial services solution providing assistance to agents, has come on the scene with the goal of helping agents obtain carrier markets, expand products and make their businesses run more smoothly. Established last year, Chicago-based Financial …

Employers Realize Proper EPL Coverage is Part of Successful Business Equation

Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms. Carrie Brodzinski, vice president and product manager for …

Shh! Don’t Tell Anyone, but E-Insurance is Alive and Well

Progress continues as Internet technologies integrate into sales and service process. Let the critics think that online insurance won’t survive the dot-bomb shakeout. Let them say that consumers aren’t interested in buying insurance online or that nobody’s making money on …

PLUS Tackles Challenges to Achieve Success

The Professional Liability Underwrit-ing Society (PLUS) will hold its 14th Annual PLUS International Conference in Chicago Nov. 14-16. Entitled The Challenge: Achieving Success, the 2001 Conference will focus on the changes the professional liability industry is currently experiencing and on …

ACT Releases Comprehensive Technology Study

A groundbreaking and indispensable insurance technology study was recently released at the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) Hawaii InfoXchange by the Agents Council of Technology (ACT), announced ACT Executive Director Jeffery M. Yates. The study, “A Vision of the …

Employers Realize Proper EPL Coverage is Part of Successful Business Equation

Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms. Carrie Brodzinski, vice president and product manager for …

Shh! Don’t Tell Anyone, but E-Insurance is Alive and Well

Let the critics think that online insurance won’t survive the dot-bomb shakeout. Let them say that consumers aren’t interested in buying insurance online or that nobody’s making money on the Internet. The numbers tell a far different story, as does …

Prudential U.K. Confirms $1.2 Billion Deal with Winterthur, 2,100 Job Losses Expected

Prudential U.K. confirmed reports which first appeared last week that it has reached an agreement to sell its general insurance business to Switzerland’s Winterthur, the insurance arm of Credit Suisse/First Boston, for £353 million ($516 million) in cash and other …

Hoffman Concludes Term, Ahart Inaugurated as IIAA’S 97th President

The strength of the insurance industry in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks was highlighted by William B. Hofmann III, in his farewell speech as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA). “The role we all play …

NAII Calls on NCSL to Support Personal Lines Modernization

The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) is urging the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to support a model bill for the regulatory modernization of personal lines that provides a competitive use and file system with appropriate consumer safeguards. …