InsuranceStudy.com has unveiled its curriculum of interactive online continuing education courses designed specifically for use by insurance industry professionals. The site offers agents and brokers a convenient and affordable way to obtain the CE credits mandated annually by the majority …
MetLife subsidiary Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has taken the first step toward offering banking services to customers by establishing a new unit within the company. Judy Weiss, an executive vice president, has been appointed to head the unit. She will …
In a case that uncovered a pattern of fraudulent activity, Protegrity Services Inc.’s Special Investigation Unit recently proved in federal court that Selzee Southern Inc., a Daytona, Indiana underground cable installation company, underreported payroll, in turn underpaying workers’ comp premiums, …
Southwestern Insurance Information Service has established a web page designed specifically for the media, consumers, legislators and their membership. The web page will contain news releases, fact sheets, a calendar of upcoming events, a glossary of terms, links to other …
Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor issued an order that will leave title insurance rates unchanged in Texas. The title insurance industry sought a rate increase of 3.7 percent. The Office of Public Insurance Counsel recommended a 15.4 percent decrease. State …
On May 12, a federal jury convicted El Paso physician Arthur C. Bieganowski on 10 felony counts including insurance fraud and conspiracy. The jury also awarded the government $11 million in criminal-forfeiture proceedings. Bieganowski and eight of his employees and …
Attendees at this year’s Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) Annual Meeting in Orlando were treated to four days full of networking and educational opportunities, not to mention illuminating speakers and entertainers, all nestled in the lush setting of the …
Its grass roots girth is what makes the independent Insurance Agents of America such a powerful lobbying entity and enduring organization. Its bottom layers, constructed of local associations across the nation, includes agents from both metropolitan and rural areas. Texas …
Round and round the season will go, but where hurricanes land, even forecasters don’t know Residents along the East and Gulf Coasts and in the Caribbean Islands should brace for an above-average 2000 Atlantic hurricane season on par with last …
When financial services reform laws were passed late last year, the banshee wails for independent insurance agencies began. Analysts and soothsayers predicted banks, with their mountains of money, would swoop down upon the comparatively poor insurance industry like the grim …
