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Michigan Agency Receives Trusted Choice Community Involvement Award

Trusted Choice has awarded the annual Dan Fulwider Award for Community Involvement to Alliance Financial & Insurance in Lowell, Michigan. In recognition of Fulwider’s community involvement, Trusted Choice established an annual $2,500 award for a selected agency to donate to …

Americans Put Too Much Faith in Homeowners Insurance

Too few Americans take steps to prepare for disasters and too many assume their home insurance policies will bail them out if one strikes. As disaster season peaks, a new national consumer survey commissioned by Trusted Choice and the Independent …

Siegel Elected as President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia

Andy N. Siegel, president of Siegel Insurance, Inc., a Trusted Choice insurance agency in Atlanta, was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) on June 13, during the association’s 118th Annual Meeting and Convention in …

The Hartford Joins Agents’ Trusted Choice Website for Small Commercial Lines

The Trusted Choice.com website has snagged a leading agency system insurer to help independent agencies sell more small business policies online. The Hartford has joined the TrustedChoice.com online commercial insurance platform backed by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of …

Trusted Choice Consumer Portal Funding Now Tops $50M

Project CAP, the organization formed to help local independent agents compete in the digital economy under the Trusted Choice brand, has raised $10 million from two additional carrier investors. The capital from the two new investors brings the total raised …

IIAT: Independent Agents Guide Consumers Through Affordable Care Act

In a Nov. 14 address on the troublesome roll out of healthcare.gov and the public outcry over the cancellation of less expensive individual insurance policies, President Obama said, “Buying health insurance is never going to be like buying a song …

Oklahoma’s Midlands MGA Joins Trusted Choice

Oklahoma-based managing general agent, Midlands, is the newest member of the Trusted Choice consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) announced. Midlands, headquartered in Oklahoma …

Chicago-Based MGA Joins Trusted Choice

The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) announced that Chicago-based managing general agent Donald Gaddis Co. Inc. has joined the Trusted Choice consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. Donald Gaddis Co. Inc. is an independent, …

Project CAP Selects EZLynx for Real-Time Pricing on Updated Consumer Site

The independent insurance agents’ online service for insurance buyers, Project CAP, has selected EZLynx to be the key real-time rating technology partner for its enhanced TrustedChoice.com website. The EZLynx Rating Engine will be used to power the website’s “get a …

Trusted Choice Grants Support Texas Volunteer Fire Departments

The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office announced that Texas independent insurance agents, who operate in their communities under the Trusted Choice brand, have created a grant program for volunteer fire departments (unsupported by tax revenues) to award at least six …