The top ten business classes written by our insurance agency group through AccessPLUS in February were:

Carriers have been changing their rates, underwriting guidelines and areas of focus dramatically and indications show that this won’t be changing any time soon. It will be important to diversify your premium volume with MIAA partnership carriers if you’ve been getting notifications that a carrier is interested in closing your code for very little or no premium.  It will also be important to follow the carriers’ changing underwriting recommendations and guidelines (no mono-line homes for example). In doing these things you won’t burn carrier bridges that may prove to be very useful in the days to come.  With the changing market no one…

A good way to eliminate potential claims from a homeowners policy and to provide much better jewelry coverage is to write a separate jewelers policy.  MIAA can help our independent insurance agents write these policies directly or through AccessPLUS:

By Ben Berkowitz BOSTON | Sat Mar 3, 2012 12:32pm EST (Reuters) – Less than a year after a series of tornadoes caused some of the worse insured losses in U.S. history, the insurance industry is likely facing substantial costs again after storms killed at least 33 people on Friday.

The top ten business classes written by our insurance agency group through AccessPLUS in January were:          

Some direct writers have become an independent insurance agent to have more markets, but what do independent agents have to offer besides more markets?  I felt that the following article was important to read while we are bombarded by the multitude of direct-online insurance carrier commercials that focus on price. – Josh Nordin   NU Online News Service BY PHIL GUSMAN, PROPERTYCASUALTY360.COM February 22, 2012

Www.InsuranceDeals4U.com is a Home/Auto lead generation site designed exclusively for SIAA members.  The SIAA Website operates much like NetQuote in the way that it generates the leads, but the lead information is distributed only to SIAA Members in the client’s area. Check out the first blog post at: http://insurancedeals4u.com/WhatsNew/tabid/85/ArticleID/3/InsuranceDeals4U-com-Announces-New-Blog.aspx

Thank you to the 30+ member agencies that attended today’s Insurance Agency Procedure Manual webinar!  It was the first to be recorded by our new recording software. We will soon be posting the webinars on our website www.miaainsurance.com in an an effort to make them available to those who couldn’t attend at the designated time.

The top ten business classes written by our insurance agency group through AccessPLUS in December were:                                 

How will this news from Property Casualty 360 affect how you do business in your independent agency? BY MARK E. RUQUET, PROPERTYCASUALTY360.COM NU Online News Service, Jan. 5, 12:13 p.m. EST The year 2011 came to a close with firm evidence that the soft market has ended, according to the latest figures released by the electronic insurance exchange MarketScout.