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Turning 35: The National Alliance Looks Back … and Into the Future

Insurance education society has served more than 130,000 participants. 1969. It was the dawning of the age of Aquarius, it was one giant leap for mankind, it was the Summer of Love, it was Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby. And, it was the …

1969, Education and Politics

Where were you in 1969? Hitchhiking to Woodstock? Surviving the jungles of Vietnam? Graduating from high school? Learning the ropes of the insurance industry? Not born yet? If you were in Austin, Texas, in the fall of that year, you …

Turning 35: The National Alliance Looks Back … and Into the Future

Insurance education society has served more than 130,000 participants. 1969. It was the dawning of the age of Aquarius, it was one giant leap for mankind, it was the Summer of Love, it was Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby. And, it was the …

Miss. Nominee Chosen as 2004 National Outstanding CSR of the Year

Ruth Phillips, CISR, CPIW, of the Morrell Agency Inc., in Magnolia, Mississippi, was awarded the 2004 National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award. The Society of Certified Insurance Service Representatives (CISR) and the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors (CIC) selected …

National Alliance Designates the 1,000th CRM

Austin, Texas-based The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research announced that Joseph R. Buick, account executive with Hylant Group in Toledo, Ohio, made his mark in risk management education history, becoming the 1,000th individual to earn the prestigious Certified …

The Trust Factor-Building Relationships with Your Clients

Baffled by the product, overwhelmed by policy verbiage and totally put off by the adversarial nature of the whole business, consumers nationwide express having serious trust issues with the insurance industry. In “Which profession/Who do you trust?” polls (e.g., Readers’ …

The Trust Factor-Building Relationships with Your Clients

Baffled by the product, overwhelmed by policy verbiage and totally put off by the adversarial nature of the whole business, consumers nationwide express having serious trust issues with the insurance industry. In “Which profession/Who do you trust?” polls (e.g., Readers’ …

IIA of Houston to Direct Area CIC Program

The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, based in Austin, Texas, and the Independent Insurance Agents (IIA) of Houston jointly announced that the IIA of Houston is assuming administrative leadership of the Certified Insurance Counselors (CIC) Program in Houston. …

Big I’s Virtual University Tops Insurance Journal Poll

You know you’re onto a story when anyone or anything outscores Maurice Greenberg in a contest for “most influential” in today’s insurance business. The Big I’s Virtual University and its director, Bill Wilson, did just that in a recent readers’ …

National Alliance’s Hold Named One of Industry’s ‘Most Powerful’

William T. Hold, Ph.D, president of The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research in Austin, Texas, was named to Insurance Newscast’s annual list of the “100 Most Powerful People in the Insurance Industry.” According to the National Alliance, the …