All the headlines from our Independent Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2005 // IVANS Inc., a provider of networking and e-commerce solutions for the insurance and healthcare industries, announced the results of an independent insurance agent survey covering technology issues such as security and...
Apr 4 2005 // Agents are treated unfairly by Texas statutes and the result is sky-rocketing errors and omissions insurance premiums, according to the Indepen-dent Insurance Agents of Texas. When rates in the E&O insurance program...
Mar 24 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America has hired Emily Crane as the new manager of media relations. In this role, Crane will serve as an information resource for trade and consumer print media on all...
Mar 22 2005 // InsurBanc, the federal savings bank jointly developed by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America and W.R. Berkley Corporation, has expanded its network of national commercial deposit points to meet the...
Mar 15 2005 // The ISU Group and Rob MacKethan have announced the creation of Agency Advisors, a consultancy providing merger & acquisition services, business appraisals and perpetuation planning advice to independent insurance...
Mar 7 2005 // Medicaid reform, changing term limits and ethics will be three major issues of concern to the Florida Legislature during upcoming meetings and through 2006, Ron Villella, Professional Insurance Agents of Florida lobbyist...
Feb 22 2005 // Liberty Northwest Insurance Corp., based in Portland, Ore., has joined the Trusted Choice® branding movement—the national consumer branding campaign created to educate consumers about the benefits of using independent...
Feb 17 2005 // Trusted Choice advertising will return to a television set near you next month when a two-week, nationwide ad flight airs, according to Ronald Smith, chairman of the consumer branding program’s Board of Directors.The...
Feb 7 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas strongly denounced as inaccurate and misleading, the claims made against independent agents and brokers by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a Washington-based consumer...
Feb 3 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) said it is pleased the House of Representatives is moving forward on legislation to reform the nation’s class-action litigation...
Jan 31 2005 // Hampton, N.H.-based agency cooperative Strategic Independent Agents Alliance announced that American Heritage Insurance Group LLC of Cincinnati has established the Insurance Connection LLC as an SIAA master agency. Their...
Jan 28 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) strongly denounced as inaccurate and misleading, the claims made against independent agents and brokers by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a Washington-based...
Jan 27 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big I) has strongly denounced the claims made against independent agents and brokers by the Consumer Federation of America as...
Jan 24 2005 // A recent $2.3 million jury verdict for wrongful termination in favor of a former Nationwide Insurance contract agent from Connecticut is unlikely to have any effect on independent agents or their companies, according to...
Jan 24 2005 // A recent $2.3 million jury verdict for wrongful termination in favor of a former Nationwide Insurance contract agent from Connecticut is unlikely to have any effect on independent agents or their companies, according to...
Jan 21 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, the nation’s largest insurance trade association, has addressed its most recent concerns over the proposed Subsection (B) to Compensation Disclosure...
Jan 20 2005 // Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt announced the appointment of W. Dale Finke to head the Missouri Department of Insurance. Finke is CEO and president of Corporate Insurance Management in St. Louis.He was president of the Missouri...
Jan 19 2005 // The overall property/casualty market grew 9.5 percent in 2003, and independent agents and brokers produced 59.4 percent of this market, according to “The 2003 Property Casualty Insurance Market” report recently...
Jan 10 2005 // A recent $2.3 million jury verdict for wrongful termination in favor of a former Nationwide Insurance contract agent from Connecticut is unlikely to have any effect on independent agents or their companies, according to...
Jan 6 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that more than 400 of the state’s top independent agency principals and managers will gather for IIAT’s 42nd Annual Joe Vincent Management Seminar and Big I...