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Florida Agents’ Communications Director Honored with Award
Dec 8 2006 // The President’s Award – The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida’s top honor – went to Communication Director Mary Frederick during a recent board of directors meeting in Key West,...
Calif.’s Strongwood Buys N.Y.-Based Northeast Agencies Network
Dec 7 2006 // California-based Strongwood Insurance Holdings Corp., owner of Networked Insurance Agents in the western states, has acquired Northeast Agencies Inc., a Buffalo, N.Y.-based aggregator of commercial and personal lines for...
S.D. Agent Sentenced to Prison
Dec 7 2006 // An insurance agent who had his license revoked was sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding clients out of $43,875. The judge handed down a 10-year prison sentence, of which eight years were suspended if Clifford...
Networked Insurance Agents Appoints McIntosh Territorial Sales VP
Dec 7 2006 // Grass Valley, Calif.-based Networked Insurance Agents, has appointed Tony McIntosh as territorial sales vice president, in San Francisco’s East Bay and Napa Valley regions. The new territory includes Solano, Contra...
Higginbotham-Austin Adds Benefits Broker
Dec 6 2006 // Higginbotham & Associates announced it has added Account Executive Cynthia Brown to its Austin, Texas, office to provide commercial clients with employee benefit plan brokerage and account support. Brown, who is...
Atlantic Specialty Lines of Florida Announces Asset Acquisition of Gary Markel Surplus Lines Brokerage
Dec 6 2006 // (Clearwater, FL and Richmond, VA) …Robert M. Bryant, President, and Martin H. Kanipe, Executive Vice President of Atlantic Specialty Lines of Florida, Inc. (ASL – FL) and Paula Ross, Executive Vice President, Gary...
California To Rule on Industry Petition Becoming “Precedential Decision”
Dec 5 2006 // The California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has decided to accept a petition filed by Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) requesting review of the former Insurance Commissioner John Garmendi’s...
Fox Point Programs Offers E&O Product for Security Broker Dealers
Dec 4 2006 // Fox Point Programs based in Wilmington, Del., has partnered with underwriters at Lloyds of London to offer errors and omissions insurance for securities brokers-dealers. The coverage provides protection against allegations...
Zurich Agrees to Terms to Close Multi-State Bid-Rigging Probe
Dec 4 2006 // Ten states, led by Texas and its Attorney General Greg Abbott, have come to terms with Zurich American, closing their probe into the insurer’s involvement in alleged bid-rigging and unfair compensation practices in...
Texas Agents’ Group Says Personal Lines Market is Competitive
Dec 4 2006 // With the exception of coastal areas, the outlook for auto and homeowners coverage is positive in Texas, according to a study conducted by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas. The IIAT Personal Lines Market Survey...
Brown & Brown Acquires Two Dallas Agencies
Dec 4 2006 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. reported the asset acquisition of two insurance agencies headquartered in Dallas, Texas. ProTexn Inc. and Best Practices Insurance Agency Inc. were acquired by a wholly owned...
London American Professional Liability introduces a new Real Estate Agents & Brokers E&O Program
Dec 1 2006 // Fort Lee, New Jersey – London American Professional Liability, LLC (LAPL), a Program Administrator and MGA, introduces a new program for Real Estate Agents and Brokers Errors and Omissions. The program is being...
Spitzer Notifies Insurers Contingent Commissions No Longer an Option
Nov 30 2006 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has notified four leading insurance companies that, under agreements reached with his office earlier this year, they may no longer pay “contingent commissions” to agents...
Ind. Agents Name McGowan Group 2006 Agency of the Year
Nov 29 2006 // McGowan Insurance Group, Inc. of Indianapolis received the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana’s (IIAI) ” Agency of The Year Award” on Nov. 11 in an awards ceremony at their Annual Convention. The...
PIA Offers ‘Main Street’ Agent Ad Campaign Free to Members, Insurers
Nov 29 2006 // Members of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents and the insurance companies they represent can now participate in a new branding program, Local Agents Serving Main Street America,which has been...
Colo. Imposes New Procedures for Surplus Lines Brokers
Nov 29 2006 // Colorado has implemented new procedure changes for surplus lines brokers. Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, surplus lines brokers in Colorado will need to report their monthly policy and endorsement transactions directly to the...
Ark. Agent Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Nov 27 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman reported that Carolyn Dixon, the owner of Dixon Insurance in Pocahontas, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to two counts of Insurance Fraud (Class D felony) and one...
Ind. Independent Agents Present Special Awards at Annual Convention
Nov 27 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (IIAI) recently announced special awards at a ceremony during their recent Annual Convention in November 11. Award recepients include: Ronald Shumaker, CISR, vice...
Independent Broker Network Hosts CE Course, Producer Appreciation Party
Nov 22 2006 // The Independent Broker Network and First Advantage/ADR will be hosting its 14th Annual Producer Appreciation Party on Thursday, Dec. 7th in Dublin, Calif. The event will offer one continuing education class prior to the...
Insurer, Agent Told to Stop Selling Unauthorized Insurance in La.
Nov 22 2006 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reported that his office obtained an order from the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge to stop the alleged sale of unauthorized commercial insurance by United...
