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PIANY Notes Passage of Policyholder Protection Bill
Jun 24 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York noted that both houses of the State Legislature have passed a bill, initiated by the PIANY, to help agents help their clients by strengthening policyholder protection. The...
L.A. Agent Files Counter-Suit Against 21st Century Insurance
Jun 23 2003 // A Los Angeles insurance agent has filed a counter-claim against 21st Century Insurance Group (formerly known as 20th Century Insurance) over the use of the name “21st Century Insurance” in Los Angeles County....
Fla. Agent Surrenders License
Jun 23 2003 // A Cocoa, Fla.-area agent surrendered her insurance license following charges by the Florida Department of Financial Services that she misappropriated premium funds. According to the department, it filed an administrative...
Young Agent, Company of the Year Announced in N.C.
Jun 23 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) announced that Ernest Jeffrey Thomas was named IIANC’s Young Agent of the Year. In addition, North Carolina’s Young Agents presented the award for...
Inside the Contractors Market
Jun 23 2003 // If you find placing contractors insurance these days almost as daunting as building the house, condo, apartment or other facility itself, you are not alone. A restrictive market, high minimum premiums and tighter...
IBA West Gets Down to Business Amidst Sun and Sand
Jun 23 2003 // Warm sun and the white sandy beaches of Kona, Hawaii, lent itself host to IBA West’s annual Blue Ribbon Conference last month, where agents, brokers, and top industry executives came to explore the latest news and...
Minority and Women Agents Look to Tap Emerging Markets
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
Born to be Wild or Something Like It
Jun 23 2003 // Get your motor runnin’ Head out on the highway Lookin’ for adventure And whatever comes our way –Steppenwolf, 1968 Easy Rider,” the 1969 filmic ode to the chopper life featuring Steppenwolf’s...
Minority and Women Agents Look to Tap Emerging Markets
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
Inside the Contractors Market
Jun 23 2003 // If you find placing contractors insurance these days almost as daunting as building the house, condo, apartment or other facility itself, you are not alone. A restrictive market, high minimum premiums and tighter...
Born to be Wild or Something Like It
Jun 23 2003 // Get your motor runnin’ Head out on the highway Lookin’ for adventure And whatever comes our way –Steppenwolf, 1968 Easy Rider,” the 1969 filmic ode to the chopper life featuring Steppenwolf’s...
IIABA Applauds Apparent Demise of Crop PDP Pilot Program
Jun 19 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) is calling the Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) decision to pull approval for the Converium-Crop 1 Insurance Company’s “Premium Discount...
Florida’s Gallagher Applauds Anti-Fraud Law
Jun 18 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher said the Pete Orr Insurance Anti-Fraud Act, which the governor recently signed into law, is expected to significantly boost efforts to prosecute operators of unlicensed...
Former Kentucky Agent Lands Fraud Sentence
Jun 17 2003 // The Fraud Investigation Division of the Kentucky Department of Insurance announced a former Lexington insurance agent has been sentenced in Fayette Circuit Court on one felony count of fraudulent insurance acts. According...
Former N.Y. Broker Charged with Selling False Workers Comp Policy
Jun 16 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Ross Anderson, 47, a former insurance broker, on charges that he falsified business records by selling fraudulent insurance, leaving...
Lloyd’s Sees Increasing Role for European Insurance Brokers
Jun 13 2003 // James Sutherland, who heads Lloyd’s Development & Strategy – Worldwide Markets, indicated that European brokers will play an increasingly powerful role in the European insurance market of the...
Calif. Broker Arraigned on Grand Theft Charges
Jun 11 2003 // Former insurance broker An Khai (aka Annie) Lu, 54, of Monterey Park, Calif., was arraigned on three counts of grand theft. The California Department of Insurance (CDI) revoked Lu’s insurance license in Oct. 2002 for...
NYSID Authorizes Internet Option for Continuing Education Requirements
Jun 10 2003 // In a move designed to facilitate access to its Continuing Education Program (CE) for all NY producers, New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced that the Department has revised...
Turner Joins Higginbotham & Assoc. as Managing Director
Jun 9 2003 // Dallas-based Higginbotham & Associates, one of the nation’s 100 largest independent insurance brokerage firms, added commercial insurance and risk management professional Jeff Turner to its rapidly expanding...
N.Y. Agent Arrested for Stealing Annuity Money from Clients
Jun 9 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio and Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota announced the arrest of Michael C. Cammarota, 57, a life insurance agent and owner of Descap Financial...
