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By Elizabeth Festa, Arthur D. Postal PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 3, 2012
Insurance companies that own or operate a savings & loan will face fresh oversight from the Federal Reserve Board, which is creating a process by which to examine those financial institutions that have significant banking assets.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 1, 2012
Independent agents seeking new property and casualty markets are leaving money on the table if they don’t aim to attract America’s growing minority populations, says the head of an agent’s diversity task force.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 30, 2012
At a time when technology has eroded the security agents and brokers have known in their traditional business model, membership in the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America remains a valuable beacon for future opportunity, says the association’s chairman.
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops |
April 25, 2012
The medical loss ratio question is far from settled, as SCOTUS weighs the healthcare law’s constitutionality, and Congress debates two MLR reform bills.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 23, 2012
Independent insurance agents and brokers from around the country will descend upon Washington D.C. this week to talk politics and insurance during the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s annual legislative conference and convention.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 28, 2012
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America says U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., will address the Annual Leadership Luncheon just prior to the IIABA’s Legislative Conference & Convention.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 6, 2012
Project CAP took another step toward reclaiming independent agent’s market share of the personal lines insurance market with the public launch of its initiative.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 8, 2011
A long-discussed technology program, aimed at attacking the competitive edge direct writers hold over independent agents in personal lines, is becoming a reality with the launch of the Consumer Agent Portal.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 5, 2011
Independent insurance agents and healthcare agents say they will continue to pursue their goal of a medical loss ratio exemption despite a recent rejection of their request by the Department of Health and Human Services
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops, AA&B editor |
December 1, 2011
With a host of state and federal legislative issues up for grabs (NFIP, NARAB II, health care reform and more), insurance trade associations are busier than ever representing the needs of their members to legislators. Find out about what the industry’s top associations have in store for 2012 and beyond.
