Latest Independent Agencies Headlines
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TRUSTED CHOICE ADS SET TO RUN:
Jan 26 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) announced it will launch a new advertising campaign to help educate consumers on the benefits of using a Trusted Choice agency. The first of six flights of...
Mission Possible: Bringing Insurers Back to Louisiana
Jan 26 2004 // If the Professional Insurance Agents of Louisiana, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana (IIABL) and Louisiana’s insurance commissioner have their way, the state will soon be flooded with insurers...
IIABA Outlines Legislative Agenda for 2004
Jan 26 2004 // With the start of the New Year and the beginning of a new session of Congress only a few weeks away, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) is rolling out its legislative agenda for 2004. Top...
IIABA Notes Legislative Agenda for New Year
Jan 26 2004 // With the start of the New Year and the beginning of a new session of Congress only a few weeks away, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) is rolling out its legislative agenda for 2004. Top...
Rain and Hail L.L.C. Joins Trusted Choice
Jan 23 2004 // Rain and Hail L.L.C., a national crop insurance underwriter, is the newest company partner of Trusted Choice —the national branding initiative created for independent agents and brokers that highlights the benefits they...
IIABA Reports It’s Time for Regulatory Reform
Jan 21 2004 // Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) CEO Robert Rusbuldt released a statement on Tuesday on recent developments in the debate over state insurance oversight: “IIABA does not dispute that the...
N.J. Auto Profits’ IIANJ Disputes Findings
Jan 19 2004 // Statistics released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners last week, have received widespread coverage in New Jersey. They seem to show that, contrary to industry statements, the state’s auto...
IIANC’s Annual Eastern Agents Conference Runs Jan. 28-29
Jan 15 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s (IIANC’s) annual Eastern Agents Conference, the largest insurance conference in the eastern part of North Carolina, will be held Jan. 28-29, at the Holiday...
IIABA National Legislative Conference Runs April 21-23
Jan 15 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) has scheduled its 28th annual National Legislative Conference for April 21-23 at The Capital Hilton in downtown Washington, D.C. The event, which always...
IIABA Names Two PR Staffers
Jan 14 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) announced it has hired two new staffers in its public relations office. Jemarion Jones is IIABA’s new manager of media relations. She replaces Kevin...
IIABA Notes Legislative Agenda for New Year
Jan 13 2004 // With the start of the New Year and the beginning of a new session of Congress only a few weeks away, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) is rolling out its legislative agenda for 2004. Top...
Has the N.J. Auto Market Seen the Last of 30 Years of Mismanagement’
Jan 12 2004 // Last month the National Association of Independent Insurers issued a bulletin, which described New Jersey’s auto insurance market as “once the nation’s poster child for the dangers of over...
IIANC DONATES $25,000 TO AMERICAN RED CROSS DISASTER RELIEF FUND:
Jan 12 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) presented the American Red Cross, Triangle Area Chapter, with a $25,000 donation recently for the Disaster Relief Fund to help victims of Hurricane Isabel and...
Trusted Choice Blitz Pushed Back
Jan 6 2004 // The first in a series of five Trusted Choice ad campaigns in 2004 has been moved to March 1 and will run through March 14, according to the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. The delay will not affect the...
IIABA Releases 2004 Legislative Agenda
Jan 5 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. announced today that ending the $1 billion drain on New York motorists and freeing the state’s construction industry from a severe crisis created by...
IIANJ Expresses Concerns over Proposed Consumer Privacy Regs
Dec 30 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey recently submitted comments to the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) concerning proposed regulations that outline minimum standards for financial...
IIANJ Young Agents Council Donates Christmas Gifts to Foster Children
Dec 23 2003 // A bulletin from the Young Agents Council (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey notes that members have “spread holiday cheer by donating gifts to foster children this season through The Foster...
IIANJ Comments on DOBI’s “Three Scenarios” and Alternate Underwriting Rules
Dec 22 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey recently provided input to the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) on several proposed regulations implementing the “Competition and Choice Act signed...
Insurance Media Association Elects van Aartrijk President; Angelone and DeMartine Also Named to Offices
Dec 19 2003 // Peter van Aartrijk Jr., CIC, a marketing communications professional with 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, has been elected the first president of the Insurance Media Association. Walter Podgurski,...
Brown Named Public Affairs Manager at IIABA
Dec 17 2003 // Cliston Brown has been named manager of public affairs for the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. Brown comes to the Big “I” after two years as director of communications for Congressman Pete...