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Gregg Effner has joined Main Street America Group as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner, who has 30 years of property/casualty industry experience, will be based at the company’s corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and report to Doug Eden, …

Maximize your value by asking the right questions

Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop carriers based on value. Actual …

A look at restaurants and bars from the ‘inside-out’

When people get to talking about America’s food hot spots, the same handful of cities come up again and again, including New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans, the epicenter of Cajun Cuisine. But in the Midwest, Chicago keeps the …

Mathews Heads Zurich’s ‘Microinsurance’

Zurich Financial Services Group announced the appointment of Brandon S. Mathews, a 37year-old American, to the newly created position of Head of Microinsurance as of June 1, 2007. He assumes responsibility for “implementing the Group-wide initiative to identify and refine …

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Gregg Effner has joined Main Street America Group as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner, who has 30 years of property/casualty industry experience, will be based at the company’s corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and report to Doug Eden, …

Maximize your value by asking the right questions

Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop carriers based on value. Actual …

Ultimate Producer School Partners with American Institute

Agency Management Resource Group (AMRG) announced it will partner with the American Institute for CPCU (AICPCU) and the Insurance Institute of America (IIA) to bring the Ultimate Producer School to cities across the United States. The school will be offered …

Report: Calif., Minn., N.J., N.C. Have Worst Traffic; N.D., S.C. Have Best Roads

Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban Interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual highway performance report. “Gridlock isn’t going away,” said David …

Aon Risk Adds Sales Director in Mich.

Aon Risk Services, the retail brokerage and risk management arm of Aon Corp. recently announced that Kevin Pastoor has joined the company’s Southfield, Mich. office as resident sales director. Pastoor comes to Aon from Liberty Mutual’s National Accounts group, where …

Treasury Chief Paulson Vows Review of U.S. Financial Services Regulation

The Bush administration plans to review the U.S. government’s regulatory system for financial institutions with the goal of making changes to better reflect modern markets. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the review, which will be conducted by officials at his …