All the headlines from our Independent Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 3 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 3 2005 // Ten years from now, some of the players within the property/casualty insurance industry will have changed but the industry itself will not look dramatically different from what it is today:Smaller companies and independent...
Jan 2 2005 // Trusted Choice survey shows consumers remain underinsured for major life, work eventsAt least 32 million U.S. households own insurance policies that aren’t right for them, a new national survey conducted by...
Dec 30 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) on Wednesday credited the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) for its hard work on a compensation disclosure...
Dec 20 2004 // Homeowners who buy insurance from independent insurance agents in Texas should be seeing lower premiums and better coverages, according to a survey conducted by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas of its 1,800-member...
Dec 17 2004 // An eight person jury in the United States District Court in Connecticut awarded $2.3 million in compensatory damages to an independent insurance agent in a decision expected to have serious ramifications on the...
Dec 14 2004 // Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, who is expected to run for governor, has a history of making life difficult for the state’s independent insurance agents.Last week, the Massachusetts Association of...
Dec 13 2004 // The Progressive group of companies has announced the debut of its newest Web site, driveinsurance.com, highlighting the important role that independent agents and brokers play in Progressive’s business model. Drive...