Michael Rounds Michael Rounds was having trouble sleeping at night. An insurance agent by trade and a politician by passion, he had told close friends and associates that he would not run for the governorship of South Dakota. It was …
A bill that would give agents the flexibility to place certain auto insurance business with surplus line carriers instead of the state’s auto insurance plan passed the Illinois House Insurance Committee 14-0 last week. The bill has already passed the …
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” With those melodramatic words, the longest-running soap opera in TV history has tried to impart an air of gravitas to the beginning of each episode. Life is short, …
The more things change, the more they … you guessed it—the more they stay the same. See? Even that saying has remained the same after all these years. This banal truism is particularly—er—truistic when it comes to the state of …
A spokeswoman for embattled Chicago broker Michael Segal said the Near North National Group CEO has no connection to and does not condone the recently launched SegalSupport.com Web site. Segal is currently on trial in federal court on mail fraud …
Leading agency-management software maker AMS will announce that it has added quoting new business into the workflow of its year-old TransactNow Web bridge product at its 28th national users’ group conference this week in Indianapolis, according to a company executive. …
Jack Cassell “was pretty happy just being a producer,” as he had been since entering the insurance business in 1979. But he saw an opportunity when the agency he was working for, Wichita, Kan.-based Manning & Smith Insurance, was acquired …
Jack Cassell “was pretty happy just being a producer,” as he had been since entering the insurance business in 1979. But he saw an opportunity when the agency he was working for, Wichita, Kan.-based Manning & Smith Insurance, was acquired …
Ooh! We’ve got a biggie for you this time, folks. One hundred and twenty pages, the bulk of that taken up by volume two of our 2004 program directory. Along with this expansive, inclusive directory comes a very insightful story …
Independent agents are up in arms over the federal government’s decision to expand a pilot program they say threatens to cut them out of the crop insurance loop. The Risk Management Agency (RMA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture organ that …
