All the headlines from our Independent Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2008 // Indiana-based Gibson Insurance Group is part of a group of independent insurance agencies around the U.S. to retain Best Practices status in 2008 from Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA).Gibson...
Oct 27 2008 // Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced four of its member agencies, Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts, Bryan Insurance, Pierson & Fendley and Weatherby-Eisenrich, have retained their status as...
Oct 27 2008 // Melanie Loiselle-Mongeon has been named president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Rhode Island.Loiselle-Mongeon, who is vice president of Loiselle Insurance Agency of Pawtucket, becomes the youngest elected...
Oct 21 2008 // Independent insurance agents and brokers are concerned about the future of contingent commissions, according to a recent survey.But that’s just one of several major concerns agents have. They also have doubts about...
Oct 20 2008 // As employers, taxpayers, consumers and charitable contributors, Massachusetts’ independent insurance agents make a $1.9 billion cumulative contribution to the Bay State’s economy last year, according to a new...
Oct 20 2008 // When the Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies was establishing itself in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most of the members were recent Cuban arrivals who had accepted the fact they were not returning to their...
Oct 17 2008 // Reagan Consulting and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”) announced the Best Practices Agencies for 2008-2009. A total of 189 agencies from around the country maintained their...
Oct 10 2008 // Real time technology is giving agencies immediate access to carrier information on their clients, allowing agencies to quickly and efficiently transact quotes, billing inquiries, endorsements, loss runs, policy views, and...
Oct 6 2008 // Independent insurance agents want their property/casualty insurance carriers to provide quality claims service above all else, according to an exclusive survey of agents’ attitudes about the insurers their agencies...
Oct 2 2008 // Darleen Madden has been elected to serve as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas (IIAD) for a term beginning Sept.1, 2008, through August 2009. Madden is co-owner of Glenn-Madden & Associates...
Sep 22 2008 // Real time technology is giving agencies immediate access to carrier information on their clients, allowing agencies to quickly and efficiently transact quotes, billing inquiries, endorsements, loss runs, policy views, and...
Sep 15 2008 // Independent insurance agents want their property/casualty insurance carriers to provide quality claims service above all else, according to an exclusive survey of agents’ attitudes about the insurers their agencies...
Sep 1 2008 // Dale Simmon of the Simmon Insurance Agency in Lansing was recently named president of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA). The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents is a statewide trade group that...
Sep 1 2008 // After 20 years as an advocate for independent agents, Bob Bird, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina, is stepping down.During this year’s convention scheduled for Oct. 12-15,...
Aug 21 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s Young Agents announced the dedication of a Habitat for Humanity house.The Young Agents partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Wake County to build a house in...
Aug 21 2008 // Miscellaneous Professional Liability Classes• Advertising agencies • Answering services• Audio/visual consultants• Business/management consultants• Communications/media/public...
Aug 18 2008 // Following a brief retirement, Joe Hudgins, formerly vice president of Underwriting for ALFA Alliance Insurance Co., will join the staff of the Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia as the association’s new vice...
Aug 4 2008 // The letter from the Palatine Insurance Co. to the independent insurance agency, written in the dawn of a new century began: “The insurance business is experiencing perilous and unprecedented challenges …”...
Aug 4 2008 // The letter from the Palatine Insurance Co. to the independent insurance agency, written in the dawn of a new century began: “The insurance business is experiencing perilous and unprecedented challenges …”...
Aug 4 2008 // The letter from the Palatine Insurance Co. to the independent insurance agency, written in the dawn of a new century began: “The insurance business is experiencing perilous and unprecedented challenges …”...