All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 25 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho announced its new officers and presented a number of awards at its 40th Annual Convention and Trade Show in Sunriver, Ore.Pete Lackner, owner of Rose City Associates, was...
May 25 2007 // Insurance agents that succeed in the insurance industry spend at least two hours a day prospecting on the phone. These insurance agents don’t cold call or prospect their relatives, they get insurance leads. Behind...
May 25 2007 // United States Senators John Sununu, R-NH, and Tim Johnson, D-SD, reintroduced “The National Insurance Act of 2007,” legislation that aims to modernize insurance industry regulation by providing an optional...
May 25 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced its 110th Conference & Trade Show June 3-5 in San Antonio. Nearly 200 exhibitors are registered for the three-day trade show to be held at the San Antonio...
May 23 2007 // New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo announced that they have negotiated a $2 billion settlement between Silverstein Properties and seven insurance companies covering all outstanding...
May 23 2007 // Almost every business – from retail to healthcare to professional services – handles personal information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and healthcare records. Many businesses think they...
May 23 2007 // Large insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co., based in Richmond, Va., has agreed to acquire the stock of The Urman Co., a Denver-based retail employee benefits and property and casualty brokerage. Terms of the...
May 22 2007 // Three-quarters of consumers are very satisfied with the service provided by their insurance agents and remain committed to working with them in the future, according to a new survey of 1,000 American consumers commissioned...
May 22 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland is flexing her regulatory muscle in an investigation of Medicare marketing that has uncovered misconduct by some insurance agents,The probe led to an appearance before a U.S....
May 22 2007 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ state-of-the-art catastrophe response vehicle (CRV) arrived in Greensburg, Kan. earlier this week to assist insurance agents whose offices were demolished by the tornado...
May 22 2007 // Infinity Insurance Companies based in Cerritos, Calif., is accepting applications for its third annual Infinity Cares Agent/Broker Award (formerly known as the Confianza Award) to recognize independent brokers and agents...
May 22 2007 // Insurance agents have sold fraudulent Medicare plans to an estimated 1,000 Mississippians over the past year, forcing them to spend months untangling the mess to regain coverage under a traditional Medicare program.State...
May 22 2007 // A New Orleans/Metairie, La., insurance agent was issued a cease and desist order and summary suspension of her license by the Louisiana Department of Insurance for alleged misappropriation of insurance funds.Quiana Natosha...
May 21 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutra-ceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan and David Rosenburg,...
May 21 2007 // West Virginia-based Summit Financial Group, Inc. has agreed to acquire Kelly Insurance Agency, Inc. and Kelly Property and Casualty Inc. headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia for $6.2 million in stock.The acquisition of the...
May 21 2007 // The commercial insurance industry is not what it was 20 years ago. Clients present deeper risks and greater needs for cost control, and large brokerage houses and carriers are being challenged to respond. But the challenge...
May 21 2007 // In 1968 when the Maurice “Hank” Greenberg took over what was to become American International Group (AIG), it was an insurance agency selling other insurers’ policies around the globe. Within years, AIG...
May 21 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) of Washington has issued a statement, noting it is discouraged by the decision of Governor Chris Gregoire to sign Washington’s ESSB 5726 into law.The law, which will take...
May 21 2007 // Given today’s business environment, is it possible for independent agents to truly be “independent?”When we talk about an independent agent, we simply think of a producer who has access to many different...
May 21 2007 // Given today’s business environment, is it possible for independent agents to truly be “independent?”When we talk about an independent agent, we simply think of a producer who has access to many different...