Latest Insurance Journal Headlines

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Agents and Brokers: Deadline to Submit for IJ’s Top 100, March 31

Mar 28 2006 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top independent insurance agencies and brokerages is winding down with just a few days left for qualified firms to send in their entry forms.The final deadline is...

Search for Nation’s Top Independent Agencies Continues

Mar 16 2006 // With some 60,000 privately held independent agencies and brokerages nationwide, locating the most successful ones is a tough job but some company’s got to do it. That company is Insurance Journal.Insurance Journal is...

Agents and Brokers: Top 10 Reasons to Join the Top 100 … and Let Your Success be Known

Mar 9 2006 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top privately-owned independent insurance agencies and brokerages has begun but some qualified firms have not yet sent in their entry forms.The final deadline has...

Enhanced IJ Broadcasting Enlivens Web Content with Interviews, Videos, Ads and More

Jan 9 2006 // Insurance Journal has launched IJ Broadcasting, an enhanced section on its Web site for multimedia content that will include video and audio interviews, current news and features, educational workshops and other...

How Producers Build Up Construction Insurance Business

Jan 5 2006 // Insurance producers land new accounts every day. But successfully building a solid block of business from one new account does not happen every day, particularly in the field of construction insurance.Dave Sinclair of...

New Year’s resolutions

Jan 2 2006 // Happy New Year. As tradition has it, the start of the new year is a popular time to make resolutions to be better. And for 2006, the Insurance Journal staff has vowed to do just that. If you peer past the first few pages...

Editor’s Note: New Year’s resolutions

Jan 1 2006 // Happy New Year. As tradition has it, the start of the new year is a popular time to make resolutions to be better. And for 2006, the Insurance Journal staff has vowed to do just that. If you peer past the first few pages...

Take Insurance Journal’s Agency Automation Survey

Dec 29 2005 // Insurance Journal is working with Kinetic Information LLC to study how independent insurance agents and brokers are approaching agency automation. The results will appear as an exclusive article in Insurance Journal early...

Independent Agents Feel Hurricane Katrina’s Full Force

Dec 19 2005 // Residents in many areas of the Gulf Coast watched their lives change forever on Aug. 29, 2005.When all was said and done, Hurricane Katrina went in the record books as the country’s worst natural disaster, leaving a...

By Dave Thomas

Dec 18 2005 // Residents in many areas of the Gulf Coast watched their lives change forever on Aug. 29, 2005.When all was said and done, Hurricane Katrina went in the record books as the country’s worst natural disaster, leaving a...

Hurricane Katrina: The Long Road to Recovery <em>An Insurance Journal Exclusive Video Report from the Gulf States</em>

Dec 14 2005 // With Gulf Coast residents and the insurance industry trying to recover from the country’s worst natural disaster ever, two Insurance Journal reporters set out to see for themselves the effects of Hurricane...

Agents Exercise Skills to Build Insurance Program Muscle

Dec 12 2005 // Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, today’s biggest and strongest insurance programs started out as scrawny kids, yet many carriers remain reluctant to take a chance with fledgling programs for niche markets, reports...

Hurricane Katrina: The Long Road to Recovery

Dec 12 2005 // With Gulf Coast residents and the insurance industry trying to recover from the country’s worst natural disaster ever, two Insurance Journal reporters set out to see for themselves the effects of Hurricane...

Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale Serving Eighth Term

Dec 5 2005 // In public and in an interview with Insurance Journal, Misissippi Insurance Commis-sioner George Dale comes across as a laid-back Mississippi farm-boy, but the commissioner, who has been reelected for eight terms, has...

Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale Serving Eighth Term; Hurricane Katrina Wasn’t Much, Compared to the After

Dec 4 2005 // In public and in an interview with Insurance Journal, Misissippi Insurance Commis-sioner George Dale comes across as a laid-back Mississippi farm-boy, but the commissioner, who has been reelected for eight terms, has...

N.Y. Gov. Hopeful Weld ‘s Insurance Chief in Massachusetts Stirred Controversy

Oct 19 2005 // As governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, a Republican who has said he wants to be governor of New York, helped turn around the state’s workers’ compensation system and introduce some competition into the...

Editor’s Note: Cracking the Cookie

Oct 17 2005 // Hurricane Katrina and Rita, then the Marsh indictments, oh my. Those subjects have made front page recently, and with good reason. No one could have foretold their outcomes, yet all will potentially affect how the...

IICF, Insurance Journal Partner to Help Katrina Victims

Sep 14 2005 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation is partnering with the Insurance Journal to reach out to the insurance community for support and help for the victims and families of Hurricane Katrina.Beginning early last...

In regards to your Editor’s Note in the July 18th issue of Insurance Journal West I think that [Congress] would have re

Sep 5 2005 // Underwriter Zurich-Glendale

Insurance Journal Makes Texas/South Central, Southeast Issues Available Online Free of Charge Due to Katrina

Sep 2 2005 // Due to severe facilities damage and other problems resulting from Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Postal Service has announced that, effective as of Aug. 31, it is not accepting any Standard or Periodicals mail – from...