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Welcome to our First Ever
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
What I’ve Learned from Y2K: It’s All About Keeping Your Customers Happy
Dec 25 2000 // The year 2000 was an interesting year. And if we mix our own lives in with the news events of this past year, it started and ended with a bang. Think about it, we were huddled in our shelters waiting for Y2K to bring...
High Tech Toys for the Holidays
Dec 11 2000 // Late nights with the new baby have given me time to do some online “window shopping.” And being the high-tech geek that I am, I’ve put together my own little holiday list of items: • Handspring’s...
Amtrust Financial To Buy Struggling Credit General
Nov 27 2000 // According to Michael Camilleri, president and CEO of Amtrust Insurance Operations, Amtrust Financial Group signed a definitive agreement on Nov. 20 to purchase the insolvent Credit General Insurance Company. Credit...
How Important is Your IT Person to You’ TechRepublic Can Help
Nov 27 2000 // With computers, networks, extranets, intranets, mobile computing, telecommuting and information systems now a necessary part of everyday business, I have to ask: “How important is your information technology (IT)...
Editor’s Note
Nov 20 2000 // When I began listening to Steve Anderson speak at last week’s TSLA meeting in Austin, I honestly didn’t think I would come away enlightened. No offense to Steve—a home-grown agent turned...
Surplus Lines Market Shows Signs of Shaping Up
Nov 13 2000 // When retail agents or brokers cannot find coverage for a unique or high-risk insured with a company in the standard or admitted market, they often turn to the surplus lines—or excess and surplus (E&S)—market for...
Diversity is Key Theme at Big ‘I’, Jackson calls for Minority Market Participation
Nov 13 2000 // The Reverend Jesse Jackson is not your typical speaker at your typical insurance industry gathering. But the Independent Insurance Agents of America aren’t afraid to do things differently, and they proved it again at...
Getting in the Thankful Mood
Nov 13 2000 // As we head into the holiday season, we turn our thoughts to what we are thankful for. For me, I have become a father again. My son Jack was born just a couple of weeks ago. He’s a little Chivvis all right,...
On the Road Again
Nov 6 2000 // Insurance Dot-Coms Shift Increasingly Toward the Agent In the fast-paced environment of Internet insurance, any attempt to define trends and categorize business models on the information highway can be an exercise in...
IIAA Unveils New Agency Universe Study; Finds Growth, Stable Consolidation for Agents
Nov 1 2000 // The last four years have been a period of financial growth and agent consolidation, according to the 2000 Agency Universe Study, a study of the independent agency system conducted by Future One, a cooperative effort of the...
Getting in the Thankful Mood
Oct 30 2000 // As we head into the holiday season, we turn our thoughts to what we are thankful for. For me, I have become a father again. My son Jack was born just a couple of weeks ago. He’s a little Chivvis all right,...
As Incoming IIAA President, Hofmann Ready to Promote One Voice For Agents
Oct 23 2000 // “My goal is not to start any new initiative, but to bring a bunch of the things that we’ve got out there to conclusion and to fruition and up-and-running.” —Bill Hofmann” After spending the past...
InsureZone Readies MarketPortal Technology
Oct 4 2000 // InsureZone plans to implement Lexica.MarketPortal, a new application providing InsureZone’s business partners a gateway to the company’s new coast-to-coast online insurance marketplace. MarketPortal is the...
After the Gold Rush: Insurance Dot-Coms Shift increasingly Toward the Agent
Oct 2 2000 // In the “stake-your-claim” environment of Internet insurance, any attempt to define trends and categorize business models can be an exercise in frustration. However, in some ways the dot-com gold rush is slowing...
Report Lloyd’s/IUA Forming Joint Venture With Tech Firm
Sep 25 2000 // A report in the Times of London indicates that the joint Lloyd’s/ IUA (International Underwriting Association) Forum, set up last year to explore ways of harmonizing procedures between the two groups and making the...
Prudential Opens Tech Center in Ireland
Sep 18 2000 // The Prudential Insurance Co. of America announced the official opening of an offshore programming and technology development center by its subsidiary Pruamerica Systems Ireland Ltd. in Letterkenny, County Donegal. The...
News and views encompassing the world of technology
Sep 18 2000 // You know how I love to get e-mails from PR people telling me how I can’t live without their services, technologies or websites (yes, that was dripping sarcasm). Well, that’s what happened the other day when I...
Lime Street Meets Silicon Valley; New Initiatives Transform Lloyd’s
Sep 4 2000 // Lloyd’s is adapting to modern business methods and upgrading its business systems so rapidly that it promises to meet, if not surpass, the vision that Chairman Max Taylor first set out in “Priorities for...
Agents See a Future Filled with Technology
Aug 29 2000 // According to preliminary findings of a series of focus groups conducted by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) and sponsored by nekema.com, independent agents know that they will need new technology to...
