All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 1 2010 // Enrollment for the United Farmers Agents Association’s Errors and Omissions Plan for all qualified agents will begin 10/1/2010 for the coverage period beginning 1/1/2011. Premium will be collected in January when the...
Oct 1 2010 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger recently revoked the licenses of three Crawford County insurance agents and warned area citizens who may have been customers of the agents to check with their insurance...
Oct 1 2010 // J. Michael “Mike” Miley of Gibson Insurance Group was installed as the chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) at the conclusion of the Big...
Oct 1 2010 // The NRG Seattle Agency, headquartered in Seattle, Wash., has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by Trusted Choice, the consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. The NRG...
Oct 1 2010 // A key trade group for insurance agents in New York is lauding a proposal by regulators to reform the coastal homeowners insurance market in the state.The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY)...
Oct 1 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) announced that Randy Lanoix of Donaldsonville, La., has been installed as the newest member of the association’s executive...
Sep 30 2010 // The National Young Agents Committee (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) presented its Outstanding Young Agents Committee of the Year for 2010 award to the...
Sep 30 2010 // The results are in from the 2010 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal.The owners of the Best Agencies to Work For in 2010 accent different programs or benefits depending upon their...
Sep 30 2010 // “I would never consider leaving this agency for another job.” That’s what one obviously very happy employee said of Bryan Insurance Agency in Graham, Texas, one of Insurance Journal’s 2010 Best...
Sep 30 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said his office is looking into a complaint that a retiree benefit adviser in the Pascagoula school system steered retirees to private plan she was selling.Chaney told The...
Sep 30 2010 // Following Hurricane Katrina, many insurance agents and brokers found themselves being sued by their customers when they realized that they were underinsured for their losses caused by the hurricane. It is fair to say that...
Sep 29 2010 // In my previous post Training Part I – Small Agencies in Small Towns I promised that we would discuss meeting and greeting prospects and customers in your office. While we all functionally know how to meet and greet...
Sep 29 2010 // A former insurance agent in Illinois has pleaded guilty to charges of theft of more than $375,000 in insurance premiums, state Attorney General Lisa Madigan has announced.Larry Chouinard, 56, entered guilty pleas in...
Sep 29 2010 // Wholesale Trading Co-Op LLC has announced that John Jennings has joined the firm as president and CEO. He is an experienced wholesale brokerage industry veteran and will lead the WTC founding team managing retail broker...
Sep 28 2010 // Abacus Insurance Brokers, Inc., a Los Angeles-based program manager that distributes specialty insurance products online through www.abacus.net, has expanded its Abacus Online Builder’s Risk program. With the...
Sep 28 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), named J. Michael “Mike” Miley as the new chairman of the association. Mike Donohoe was named as the chairman elect, Bobby...
Sep 28 2010 // The surplus lines industry continues to experience a decline in direct premiums written (DPW). For a third consecutive year in 2009, the surplus lines industry’s DPW fell 4.1 percent, an improvement over 2008 where...
Sep 28 2010 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire (PIANH) has elected Lisa Nolan as president.She is senior executive vice president of the Watson Insurance Agency in Manchester, New Hampshire, and served as the...
Sep 27 2010 // Liberty Mutual Agency Markets said that its agents can now use one of two commercial lines service centers to help with a range of services for policyholders.The centers – located in Ohio and Washington — will...
Sep 27 2010 // In what’s being called “a major victory for insurance agents and brokers,” the California Department of Insurance has notified the California Office of Administrative Law of its intention to repeal...