A new service to help agents pay for needed continuing education programs was recently unveiled by the Professional Insurance Agents Association of Virginia and DC (PIAVA/DC) and its carrier partners.

A national insurance agents’ trade association is reminding Congress that whatever health care reform comes, consumers must not be denied access to the advice of licensed, professional, independent insurance agents.

The problems of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security should serve as a cautionary tale a federal takeover of insurance regulation, according to a new white paper.

Mark Boozell

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Thirteen insurance trade groups are urging Congress to exclude all lines of insurance from the Consumer Financial Protection Agency recently proposed by President Barack Obama and the U.S. Treasury Department.

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The president of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) is voicing his concern over efforts in Washington, D.C., to reform health care and state insurance regulation, likening it …  Read →

On the golf course in Salem, Va., last week, several insurance agents asked what I thought of the apparently pending health reform efforts of Congress and President Barack Obama.

I told …  Read →

As federal legislators in Washington, D.C., craft the future of health care coverage, a national health insurance agents’ organization is reminding them that professionals are a key ingredient in the …  Read →

The president of a Farmville, Va., insurance agency was named the 2009 PIA National Young Insurance Professional of the Year.

Scott M. Harwood Jr.

Scott M. Harwood Jr., president of Harwood …  Read →

Members of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents will gather in Washington, D.C., April 1 and 2 for their annual Federal Legislative Summit with the goal of reinforcing the …  Read →

Two U.S. senators are poised to introduce legislation that would effectively do away with the state-based system of insurance regulation.