The Western Insurance Agents Association and the Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers have joined forces. The board of directors of PIIB, based on El Dorado Hills, California, voted to affiliate all its agency-cluster partners with WIAA. As a result, WIAA now …
Robert W. Hogeboom has quietly been in the background of making and forming insurance laws and regulations for decades – and he’s seen a lot change in California’s insurance landscape in all of that time. During his 46-year-long legal career, …
Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based Western Insurance Agents Association has promoted Kou Brockhouse and Steven Pettersen to vice president. Both were member services specialists before being promoted to directors of business development at WIAA. They are members of an executive staff that …
California agents and brokers are being notified of a new change to how they can handle motor vehicle records. An agreement between representatives from the insurance industry and the California Department of Motor Vehicles eventually enabled the DMV to revise …
Ken Nigohosian has returned to Western Insurance Agents Association as vice president of regulatory affairs. Nigohosian will work with the association’s legislative and regulatory affairs advisory committee. He had held an executive position with WIAA from 2006 to 2009. He …
The Western Insurance Agents Association is throwing up some objections to a California Department of Insurance proposal that would enable the department’s hearing bureau to adjudicate agent/broker and carrier disciplinary proceedings. Producer disciplinary proceedings in California have been held for …
Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based WIAA Education & Research Foundation, a nonprofit corporation focused on advancing knowledge of insurance industry professionals, hosted a recent roundtable discussion on the industry and where it’s headed. The daylong event was attended by 23 insurance industry …
The economy, the promised-land of a hard insurance market and the need to master technologies dominated discussion at the first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable in Irvine, Calif. The daylong event was attended by 23 insurance industry professionals. It included three …
