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Managing General Agencies: Your Own Benefits Department
Jun 9 2003 // This is the first of an ongoing series on employee benefits. Insurance Journal will increase this series as we attract more advertising from employee benefits suppliers. What information would you like to see regarding...
P&C Technology Firm Insurity Joins AAMGA
May 20 2003 // Insurity Inc., a ChoicePoint® company, headquartered in Hartford, Conn., announced that the American Association of Managing General Agents’ (AAMGA) board of directors has voted to ratify Insurity as a full-fledged...
Growing Your Business One Link at a Time
May 19 2003 // Ah, the Internet. Where would we be without it? Web sites and e-mail are pretty much essential ingredients for a successful business these days, especially for sales-oriented organizations. There are a myriad of ways...
Giles Looks at MGAs As He Prepares to Step Down
May 5 2003 // Outgoing AAMGA president Rob Giles sat down with Insurance Journal recently to discuss the association, managing general agents and his term as president, among other things. Giles, president of Wisconsin-based Midwest...
Putting Business Intelligence to Work
May 5 2003 // Business transpires in the Information Age. Although these times offer the most networked, data enriched progression ever in history, many smaller to midsize insurance companies are still using mainframe processing to...
Giles Looks at MGAs As He Prepares to Step Down
May 5 2003 // Outgoing AAMGA president Rob Giles sat down with Insurance Journal recently to discuss the association, managing general agents and his term as president, among other things. Giles, president of Wisconsin-based Midwest...
American Wholesale Insurance Group Acquires Seaboard Underwriters Inc.
May 2 2003 // American Wholesale Insurance Group (www.amwins.com) has completed the acquisition of Seaboard Underwriters, Inc., a provider of insurance solutions for the transportation industry. Seaboard operates as a managing general...
Brown & Brown Acquires MGAs
Mar 21 2003 // Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla., announced it has acquired managing general agencies in Georgia and North Carolina in transactions effective March 1. Saville & Associates Inc. of Norcross,...
Additional Benefits Company’s WebApp Upload Expands
Mar 19 2003 // Additional Benefits Company (www.getabc.com), developers of WebApp (www.webapp.net) , an integrated web-based application upload and point-of-sale system, announced the addition of its newest client, Med James, Inc., a...
The ABCs of MGAs
Feb 24 2003 //
The ABCs of MGAs
Feb 24 2003 //
SoftNet Systems Purchases Insurance Holding Company, Changes Name to American Independence Corp.
Nov 14 2002 // SoftNet Systems, Inc. has acquired the stock of Independence American Holdings Corp. (“IAHC”) from Independence Holding Company (“IHC”) and SoftNet has changed its name to American Independence...
Reinsurance through an MGA: A Retail Agent’s Guide
Oct 28 2002 // Retail agents know where to turn when they have a specialized need, a difficult coverage to place, or any kind of excess or surplus line of business: the managing general agent. Due to the broad range of coverage options...
Reinsurance through an MGA: A Retail Agent’s Guide
Oct 28 2002 // Retail agents know where to turn when they have a specialized need, a difficult coverage to place, or any kind of excess or surplus line of business: the managing general agent. Due to the broad range of coverage options...
Tight Reinsurance Capacity Puts the Squeeze on Program Market
Oct 14 2002 // As more and more reinsurers become increasingly timorous in a hard market yet to peak, one of the most acutely affected business lines have been programs. Reinsurance capacity for many standard commercial lines has dropped...
Tight Reinsurance Capacity Puts the Squeeze on Program Market
Oct 14 2002 // As more and more reinsurers become increasingly timorous in a hard market yet to peak, one of the most acutely affected business lines has been programs. Reinsurance capacity for many standard commercial lines has dropped...
Trumbull to Provide Admin. Services to Cypress Point
Sep 25 2002 // Trumbull Services L.L.C., a Windsor, Conn.-based provider of outsourcing and technology services to P/C insurers, announced it has agreet to provide commercial lines administrative services to Cypress Point Insurance...
Morris, Manning & Martin Forms Legal Practice Group For MGA’s
Sep 10 2002 // Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP has formed a new practice group to serve the needs of independent Managing General Agents (MGAs). The new group will provide focused services involving: * Contracts with insurance...
MGA’s Stay a Step Ahead with the Internet
Aug 19 2002 // In efforts to not only stay a step ahead of the competition but also reduce costs in the long run, many managing general agencies are utilizing the Internet at greater lengths these days. As the nation as a whole spends...
All Aboard the Technology Train
Aug 19 2002 // The technology train arrived years ago and those that chose not to purchase a ticket are finding out that they very well may be left behind at the station. In a day and age when hits, HTML, links, and software are part of...
