Latest Insurance Wholesale Headlines
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E-Commerce Capabilities Becoming Critical Industry Tool
Aug 19 2002 // As wholesalers and managing general agents (MGA’s), we often serve our insurance retailers by offering contract programs where we have been “given the pen” and are allowed to underwrite and bind business...
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...
E-Commerce Capabilities Becoming Critical Industry Tool
Aug 19 2002 // As wholesalers and managing general agents (MGA’s), we often serve our insurance retailers by offering contract programs where we have been “given the pen” and are allowed to underwrite and bind business...
Programs, Beacons of Stability in Tumultuous Markets
Aug 5 2002 // Now that the hard market has firmly set, it’s no secret that more and more standard property and casualty insurance carriers are seeking to stem losses by restricting coverage and revamping underwriting habits. As in...
Programs, Beacons of Stability in Tumultuous Markets
Aug 5 2002 // Now that the hard market has firmly set, it’s no secret that more and more standard property and casualty insurance carriers are seeking to stem losses by restricting coverage and revamping underwriting habits. As in...
Trading Floor
Jul 22 2002 // ProgramBusiness.com, a portal for retailers, wholesalers, MGAs and carriers, has opened ProgramBusiness.com Trading Floor, where retailers and wholesalers can post single accounts and books of business to be viewed by...
How Retail Agents Can Best Use the Surplus Lines Industry
Jul 22 2002 // Do your homework. Check it over, twice. And an apple for the teacher wouldn’t hurt, either. Once we get past the risk assessments, debt ratios and premium margins, insurance is still about relationships. For it is...
As Hard Market Persists, E&S Brokers Wait For The Right Opportunity
Jul 8 2002 // Last January separate panels of analysts who follow the insurance industry and CEO’s of insurance companies predicted a “foreshortened” cycle, a brief hard market that would give insurers little relief...
As Hard Market Persists, E&S Brokers Wait for the Right Opportunity
Jul 8 2002 // Last January separate panels of analysts who follow the insurance industry and CEO’s of insurance companies predicted a “foreshortened” cycle, a brief hard market that would give insurers little relief...
ProgramBusiness.com rolls Out ‘Trading Floor’ for Retailers, Wholesalers, Underwriters
Jun 7 2002 // ProgramBusiness.com, a portal for retailers, wholesalers, MGAs and carriers, has opened ProgramBusiness.com Trading Floor, where retailers and wholesalers can post single accounts and books of business to be viewed by...
Communicating Effectively with Your Wholesaler
Jan 28 2002 // The managing general agent (MGA) has long been a part of the insurance sales process—but still remains a mystery to many insurance professionals. A working knowledge of MGAs will lead to a beneficial and profitable...
Communicating Effectively with Your Wholesaler
Jan 28 2002 // The managing general agent (MGA) has long been a part of the insurance sales process—but still remains a mystery to many insurance professionals. A working knowledge of MGAs will lead to a beneficial and profitable...
InsuranceNoodle Begins Licensing Web-Based Solution
Dec 12 2001 // InsuranceNoodle announced it has begun licensing its web-based NoodleASP(TM) technology solution to regional/national brokers, P&C carriers, managing general agents (MGA), and managing general underwriters (MGU). The...
BB&T’s Aggressive Expansion Plan Includes Mergers, Acquisitions
Nov 26 2001 // BB&T Corporation, the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based financial services company with strong insurance interests, is maintaining its strategy of expansion across the southern U.S. by agreeing in principle to merge with...
Insuring Nonprofits as Markets Harden
Nov 19 2001 // As recession looms and claims costs associated with the terrorist attacks on September 11 add up, insurance markets are beginning to harden for the first time in nearly a decade. Many major property and casualty carriers,...
Interstate Insurance Group Selects ITS to Web-Enable Distribution Process
Oct 4 2001 // Insurance Technology Solutions Inc. (ITS), a provider of web-based insurance technology, announced it was selected by Interstate Insurance Group (IIG) to automate in real time the rating, quoting, binding, policy issuance,...
Frontier Insurance Group and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance Sign MGA and Brokerage Agreements May
May 22 2001 // Medical Professional Liability Agency, Ltd a subsidiary of Frontier Insurance Group Inc, and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance (PRI), jointly announce that PRI had entered into agreements appointing Med Pro an MGA and...
CNA Forms Alliance with Ambridge Partners For TFI Products
May 17 2001 // CNA Global Specialty Lines, a unit of Chicago’s CNA, based in New York, announced an alliance with London’s Ambridge Partners LLC, described as “a highly specialized managing general underwriter for...
AAMGA Selects Desert Backdrop for ‘Diamond Jubilee’
May 14 2001 // This year the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) will celebrate its 75th Anniversary with a Diamond Jubilee, to be held May 20-24 in Palm, Desert, Calif. “The Desert Springs Marriott Resort...
