Latest Independent Agencies Headlines
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Wood Elected President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas
Jun 22 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011. Other newly...
Submit Today: Insurance Journal Top 100 Agencies
Jun 11 2010 // Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Top Overall Independent...
Oregon Insurance Industry To Recognize Customer Service Reps
Jun 10 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Oregon (IIABO) is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Accredited Customer Service Representative of the Year award, which recognizes an employee for his or her...
Infinity Insurance Selects Leads360 to Provide Lead Management for Independent Agents
Jun 7 2010 // Infinity Auto Insurance has announced the addition of Leads360 to its Infinity Perks Web site, where Infinity’s appointed independent agents will now have access to Leads360’s lead management software and...
Texas Agency Named Trusted Choice Agency of the Month
Jun 7 2010 // The Hill County Insurance Agency, located in Hillsboro, Texas, has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by Trusted Choice, the consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. Hill...
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Jun 7 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc. Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...
Agents Aren’t Quite Ready for the Social Media Revolution
Jun 7 2010 // LaRocco lamented that only 48 percent of independent insurance agents have Web sites, and of those, only about 20 percent keep the sites updated. The insurance industry is not as quick to adapt to change as other...
Insurance Journal Searches for Top 100 Agencies
Jun 3 2010 // Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Top Overall Independent...
Insurance Journal Searches for Nation’s Leading Agencies
May 20 2010 // Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Top Overall Independent...
Agents Aren’t Quite Ready for the Social Media Revolution
May 17 2010 // The insurance industry is not as quick to adapt to change as other industries,” but independent insurance agents need to acknowledge that having “a Web presence is non-negotiable,” said Michael LaRocco,...
Payan Elected Chairman of Associated Risk Managers International
May 14 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc. Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...
Mercury Partners with Personal Lines Growth Alliance
May 7 2010 // The Personal Lines Growth Alliance (PLGA), a coalition within the independent agency system, announced that Mercury Insurance Group is a founding financial partner. Mercury is the first of many insurance carriers that will...
Main Street America Expands Product Lines To Grain Dealers Mutual Agents
May 4 2010 // The Main Street America Group has introduced its products to nearly 200 independent agents who represent new affiliate Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. throughout North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Specifically,...
Agents Aren’t Quite Ready for the Social Media Revolution
May 3 2010 // The insurance industry is not as quick to adapt to change as other industries,” but independent insurance agents need to acknowledge that having “a Web presence is non-negotiable,” said Michael LaRocco,...
Employers Direct Relaunched as PacificComp to Work With Independent Agents
Apr 28 2010 // Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. (PacificComp), formerly Employers Direct Insurance Co., has relaunched its business with a new name and transformation from a direct writer of workers’...
Insurance Agents Not Quite Ready for Social Media Revolution
Apr 26 2010 // “The insurance industry is not as quick to adapt to change as other industries,” but independent insurance agents need to acknowledge that having “a Web presence is non-negotiable,” said Michael...
Young Joins Big ‘I’ Agents’ Lobbying Staff
Apr 8 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) announced that Ryan Young has joined the team as senior director of federal government affairs. Young, a native of Denver, N.C., joins the...
When Main Street Met Washington
Apr 7 2010 // Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. and surveys the lobby where roughly 150 other...
When Main Street Met Washington
Apr 5 2010 // Agents Make Grassroots Lobbying Campaign Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel and surveys the lobby...
When Main Street Met Washington
Apr 5 2010 // Agents Head to D.C. as Part of Grassroots Lobbying Campaign Amid wind-whipped exhaust fumes and an early March cold front, Connecticut insurance agent Michael Gergler ducks inside the lobby of the Wardman Park hotel in...
