Monthly Archives: <span>March 2003</span>

Professional Liability CE Accredited Seminars April 7

California agents, brokers and insurance professionals in and near the Santa Barbara area can earn up to 6 C.E. Credits on Monday, April 7. The Insurance Professionals of Santa Barbara are sponsoring three two-credit continuing education seminars at the Ogilvy-Hill …

Afni Services Notes Plans for Write-back Module in CSR24

Afni Insurance Services, a provider of customer care solutions for the industry, plans to release a new “write-back” module in its CSR24 product. The write-back module automatically records each CSR24 transaction in the agent’s agency management system. This new module …

Trio of Assurex Global Agencies Choose XDimensional Technologies’ Agency Mgt. System

Nexsure, the industry’s first 100 percent web-architected agency management system based on the Microsoft .NET platform, has been selected as the office automation system by three members of the Assurex partnership of independent agencies. The announcement was made today by …

NAII Says Calif. Law Treats Service Contracts, Express Warranties Separately

DaimlerChrysler Corporation and the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) are urging the California Supreme Court to keep separate the treatment of vehicle service contracts and automobile express warranties in the state insurance code. A California Court of Appeal recently …

NAIC President to Address PIA National

Mike Pickens, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), will address the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents on April 5, in Arlington, Va. Pickens will speak on industry issues during the PIA National Awards program and participate …

BISYS Purchases San Francisco’s Tri-City Brokerage

BISYS, a global provider of business process outsourcing solutions for the financial services sector, announced its acquisition of San Francisco-based Tri-City Brokerage, the nation’s seventh largest commercial lines property/casualty (P/C) wholesaler and the third largest independent wholesaler. The acquisition marks …

AMS Introduces TransactNOW

AMS Services, Inc. has unveiled TransactNOW, a product that enables interface communication between carriers, agents and the AMS Services management system product line. TransactNOW allows agents to process business transactions with carriers via a seamless single-entry workflow, without ever having …

PIANJ Updates Online Agency Handbook to Reflect New Producer Licensing Information

The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has updated its online Agency Handbook to include the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s newly adopted and amended regulations implementing the Producer Licensing Act of 2001. The act and regulations …

NYMAGIC, INC. Reinstates Dividend, Appoints New Independent Director

The Board of Directors of NYMAGIC, INC. announced that it has declared a dividend to shareholders of six cents per share, payable on April 8, 2003, to shareholders of record on March 31, 2003. The Board also announced the appointment …

PIACT Supports Competition for Municipally Funded Construction Projects

Steven Imbriaco, government affairs counsel for the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc., told the Insurance & Real Estate Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly during a public hearing on Tuesday that competition is essential when writing insurance for municipally …