InsuranceNoodle announced it has begun selling insurance in Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Utah. With the addition of these five states, the e-broker is now licensed in 45 states and the District of Columbia and reaches 96 percent …
The Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) confirmed Thomas B. Ahart, as president; installed W. Cloyce Anders and Louise “Bebe” Canter to key executive leadership positions and added Alex Soto, ARM, CPCU to the association’s Executive Committee at the Hawaii …
Zurich North America Surety announced its new Notary Bond/Errors & Omissions Package to serve notaries public. The package, distributed through the company’s network of licensed independent agents, combines a notary public bond and an errors & omissions liability policy. The …
Liberty Northwest Insurance Corporation has announced the intended purchase, pending regulatory approval, of Oregon Auto Insurance Company, along with its subsidiary North Pacific Insurance Company. As two of the largest regional insurers in the Northwest, Liberty Northwest and North Pacific/Oregon …
Take an influx of homeowners moving into what was once open land, add a rainy winter which has fueled the growth of brush and vegetation, and you have a potential recipe for disaster. As of Aug. 15, close to 300 …
Advantage Workers’ Compensation Insurance Company of Salt Lake City was named the underwriting partner of Boise-based WorkCare NorthWest, a partnership expected to make Advantage Insurance one of the largest workers’ compensation insurers in Idaho by July 2002. Advantage Insurance, which …
InsuranceNoodle, an online distributor of small business insurance through independent agencies, has engaged Woolard Gioia Blundell Associates as a strategic partner to assist in developing specifications for a range of new products to complement its current line-up of commercial insurance …
Advantage Workers’ Compensation Insurance Company of Salt Lake City was named the underwriting partner of Boise-based WorkCare NorthWest, a partnership expected to make Advantage Insurance one of the largest workers’ compensation insurers in Idaho by July 2002. Advantage Insurance, which …
Not surprisingly, compensation continues to be the single largest agency expense. The average independent agency in the U.S. spent between 62.2 percent and 66.3 percent on compensation in 2000, according to The Middleton Group’s biannual Compensation Survey. Some 2.3 million …
Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) shows. …
