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Trading Floor

Jul 22 2002 // ProgramBusiness.com, a portal for retailers, wholesalers, MGAs and carriers, has opened ProgramBusiness.com Trading Floor, where retailers and wholesalers can post single accounts and books of business to be viewed by...

How Retail Agents Can Best Use the Surplus Lines Industry

Jul 22 2002 // Do your homework. Check it over, twice. And an apple for the teacher wouldn’t hurt, either.Once we get past the risk assessments, debt ratios and premium margins, insurance is still about relationships. For it is...

As Hard Market Persists, E&S Brokers Wait For The Right Opportunity

Jul 8 2002 // Last January separate panels of analysts who follow the insurance industry and CEO’s of insurance companies predicted a “foreshortened” cycle, a brief hard market that would give insurers little relief...

As Hard Market Persists, E&S Brokers Wait for the Right Opportunity

Jul 8 2002 // Last January separate panels of analysts who follow the insurance industry and CEO’s of insurance companies predicted a “foreshortened” cycle, a brief hard market that would give insurers little relief...

ProgramBusiness.com rolls Out ‘Trading Floor’ for Retailers, Wholesalers, Underwriters

Jun 7 2002 // ProgramBusiness.com, a portal for retailers, wholesalers, MGAs and carriers, has opened ProgramBusiness.com Trading Floor, where retailers and wholesalers can post single accounts and books of business to be viewed by...

Communicating Effectively with Your Wholesaler

Jan 28 2002 // The managing general agent (MGA) has long been a part of the insurance sales process—but still remains a mystery to many insurance professionals. A working knowledge of MGAs will lead to a beneficial and profitable...

Communicating Effectively with Your Wholesaler

Jan 28 2002 // The managing general agent (MGA) has long been a part of the insurance sales process—but still remains a mystery to many insurance professionals. A working knowledge of MGAs will lead to a beneficial and profitable...

InsuranceNoodle Begins Licensing Web-Based Solution

Dec 12 2001 // InsuranceNoodle announced it has begun licensing its web-based NoodleASP(TM) technology solution to regional/national brokers, P&C carriers, managing general agents (MGA), and managing general underwriters (MGU). The...

BB&T’s Aggressive Expansion Plan Includes Mergers, Acquisitions

Nov 26 2001 // BB&T Corporation, the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based financial services company with strong insurance interests, is maintaining its strategy of expansion across the southern U.S. by agreeing in principle to merge with...

Insuring Nonprofits as Markets Harden

Nov 19 2001 // As recession looms and claims costs associated with the terrorist attacks on September 11 add up, insurance markets are beginning to harden for the first time in nearly a decade. Many major property and casualty carriers,...

Interstate Insurance Group Selects ITS to Web-Enable Distribution Process

Oct 4 2001 // Insurance Technology Solutions Inc. (ITS), a provider of web-based insurance technology, announced it was selected by Interstate Insurance Group (IIG) to automate in real time the rating, quoting, binding, policy issuance,...

Frontier Insurance Group and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance Sign MGA and Brokerage Agreements May

May 22 2001 // Medical Professional Liability Agency, Ltd a subsidiary of Frontier Insurance Group Inc, and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance (PRI), jointly announce that PRI had entered into agreements appointing Med Pro an MGA and...

CNA Forms Alliance with Ambridge Partners For TFI Products

May 17 2001 // CNA Global Specialty Lines, a unit of Chicago’s CNA, based in New York, announced an alliance with London’s Ambridge Partners LLC, described as “a highly specialized managing general underwriter for...

AAMGA Selects Desert Backdrop for ‘Diamond Jubilee’

May 14 2001 // This year the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) will celebrate its 75th Anniversary with a Diamond Jubilee, to be held May 20-24 in Palm, Desert, Calif.“The Desert Springs Marriott Resort &...

Tech Providers Are Scoping Out the Online MGA Market

May 14 2001 // Electronic communications between agents and carriers have received much attention over the years, as the struggle goes on for better technology, single entry of data and lower-cost delivery.But what if you’re a key...

AAMGA Selects Desrt Backdrop for ‘Diamond Jubilee’

May 7 2001 // This year the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) will celebrate its 75th Anniversary with a Diamond Jubilee, to be held May 20-24 in Palm, Desert, Calif.“[The Desert Springs Marriott Resort...

Corralling The Horse Market

Apr 23 2001 // In today’s steady economy, equine insurance could be one of the best markets you’ve never thought about tapping. Then again, if you don’t know the front end of a horse from the back, it could also be the...

iwix.net to Cease Operations

Apr 6 2001 // iwix.net, the Internet specialty insurance marketplace, will close effective April 30 due to its inability to secure additional funding. The exit plan has been communicated in detail to its carrier/MGA partners and its...

Transit Casualty Co.’s “Titanic” Insolvency Teaches Many Lessons

Mar 5 2001 // It’s been called “the Titanic of all insolvencies”—on Dec. 3, 1985, Transit Casualty Company, domiciled in Missouri, was declared insolvent by the Cole County Circuit Court. During the late ’80s,...

PRC Corp. Acquires Insurity Solutions

Mar 1 2001 // PRC Corp., a subsidiary of ChoicePoint® , entered into an agreement to purchase 100 percent of the stock of Insurity Solutions Inc., from an internal management group and private investors. The deal is PRC’s second...