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Fourteen Punny Ways to Get Your Insurance Mailings Noticed
Oct 17 2005 // Insurance sales promotions aren’t for the bashful. Agents must relentlessly try fresh marketing approaches while simultaneously working to improve on any past successes. Meanwhile, there are new and exciting...
Three in Mass. Indicted in $30 Million Payroll Scheme
Oct 13 2005 // Three Quincy, Mass. residents have been charged in an under-the-table payroll scheme in which they allegedly paid hundreds of temporary employees, who performed manual labor at factories and warehouses in Massachusetts, a...
Nine S. Floridians Charged for Making False Claims to FEMA
Oct 11 2005 // Nine Broward County residents have been charged in Fort Lauderdale with defrauding the Federal Emergency Assistance Agency by obtaining disaster relief after Hurricane Frances made landfall last year almost 100 miles away....
Three Mississippians Charged for Making False Hurricane Katrina Claims
Oct 11 2005 // Three Mississippi residents have been accused of making false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Hurricane Katrina relief funds. Dunn Lampton, U.S. Attorney for the southern district of Mississippi, told...
Two More La. Parishes Eligible for Disaster Unemployment Help
Oct 5 2005 // The Louisiana Department of Labor reported that Sabine and St. Landry parishes have been added to the list of parishes whose residents and employees are eligible for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA). The parishes of...
Five Ingredients for Sales Success
Oct 3 2005 // Five years from now, many of you will no longer be in the insurance business. It’s true. Major changes in the insurance field have triggered a dramatic weeding out of this country’s sales force. To succeed in...
Five Ingredients for Sales Success
Oct 3 2005 // Five years from now, many of you will no longer be in the insurance business. It’s true. Major changes in the insurance field have triggered a dramatic weeding out of this country’s sales force. To succeed in...
Two Leading Law Firms Merge
Sep 29 2005 // Edwards & Angell LLP and Palmer & Dodge LLP, two leading full-service law firms, announced that they have agreed to merge, effective on or around November 1, 2005. The new top-ranked firm will offer local,...
Two Arrested in Scam Targeting New Orleans Police
Sep 22 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that two suspects were arrested in connection with a false promotional activity that targeted more than 2,500 New Orleans police officers, Orleans Parish...
Two More Albany, Ga. Sanitation Workers Arrested in Insurance Scam
Sep 21 2005 // Two more City of Albany sanitation workers have been arrested in a huge insurance scam ring. Their arrests bring to 14 the number of people arrested since last Thursday. Jonathan West surrendered on Tuesday morning to face...
Two to Watch
Sep 19 2005 // The old saying goes, “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” We can all breathe easier and let the children out of the house, now that the Texas Legislature is...
Two More from Marsh Join Integro
Sep 7 2005 // Integro has hired two more former Marsh executives for its New York headquarters. Stephen Lundin will serve as managing principal, Client Development and Michael Klaschka has signed on as principal, Management Risk...
Four Pa. Employers Charged in Workers’ Comp Scam
Aug 26 2005 // Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry’s (L&I) Bureau of Workers’ Compensation compliance unit announced the prosecution of four employers for reportedly failing to maintain...
Five Tampa Clinic Owners Arrested for Patient Brokering
Aug 26 2005 // Five Tampa-area clinic owners have been arrested and a warrant issued for the arrest of a sixth owner for “selling” patients, most of whom were accident victims, to diagnostic facilities that then billed auto...
Seven Steps in Selling Your Agency
Aug 22 2005 // Most agency owners have put their time, energy and heart into building their business. The business is a part of their life. The sale of one’s business is usually a one-time event. It therefore makes sense to take...
Seven Steps in Selling Your Agency
Aug 22 2005 // Most agency owners have put their time, energy and heart into building their business. The business is a part of their life. The sale of one’s business is usually a one-time event. It therefore makes sense to take...
Two Studies Reveal Increase in Motorcycle Deaths Due to Repeal of Florida Helmet Law
Aug 9 2005 // Motorcycle fatalities have risen sharply in Florida since the state repealed its mandatory helmet law, according to two studies, one by the government and the other by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The...
Two Floridians Join Citizen’s Property Insurance Board of Governors
Aug 5 2005 // John D. Collins and Julio G. Rebull, Jr. have been appointed by Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO to the board of governors of Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s insurer of last resort. Collins is founder and...
Three S. Fla. ‘Cousins’ Receive Prison Terms, Ordered to Repay $1.5M
Aug 4 2005 // Three South Florida cousins, Brian Shechtman, Dean Shechtman and Brad Shechtman, have been sentenced to prison by Lee Circuit Judge Thomas S. Reese for scheming to persuade seniors aged 75 to 94, to switch their health...
Eight Cars Get Top Ratings in Insurance Industry Crash Tests
Jul 18 2005 // Five large family passenger cars and three large luxury models have earned top ratings in frontal crash tests by the insurance industry. The highest ratings in the tests went to 2005 family vehicles such as the Buick...
