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PIA has also gone mobile ... the PIA mobile app provides you access to all that the association has to offer. It also makes it very easy for you to refer others to the PIA. Our app is FREE; try it out!
- Load the PIA application on one or more of your devices. It's simple.
Download PIA Western Alliance's Mobile App! (piawest.insurancetapp.com)
- Fill in your name and phone number, click Send App.
- Then you will promptly receive a text "Here's a link to Professional Insurance Agents Western Alliance's mobile tool kit for your insurance needs: piawest.insurancetapp.com." Tap the link and follow the prompts.
If you need assistance, there is a “How to Install the App on Android and How to Install the App on iPhone” on the bottom left hand page of this page: piawest.insurancetapp.com.
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Earthquakes are devastating for those impacted by them. The accompanying property losses and death are also difficult for insurers. Quakes are getting growing attention. For decades we've looked at how dangerous the San Andreas Fault is for California and how it could cut loose at any minute. Plans for what to do when it goes evolved out of all that attention. But maybe geologists and scientists have been focusing on the wrong area.
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Three insurers — so far — have been designated too-big-to-fail by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Those receiving the non-bank systemically important financial institution (SIFI) designation are AIG, MetLife and Prudential.
MetLife sued and got a federal court to overturn the designation. The U.S. Treasury is appealing. Meanwhile, MetLife is shedding assets to put itself under the radar if the appeal goes against them. General Electric — another non-bank SIFI designee — also sold assets to have the designation removed.
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Lots of political talk these days about U.S. jobs and about corporations based in this country sending jobs — and worse — assets overseas. It's a tax ploy known as inversion.
Political candidates from Hilary to The Donald to Bernie Sanders have decried the process. So has President Obama and in April of this year the U.S. Treasury put new regulations in place to stop — or at least slow down — the process.
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The next president — and the next Congress, as well — is going to have to deal with the disaster known to the nation as ObamaCare. To be more technical and more accurate, it's the Affordable Care Act and the fourth sign-up period starts just a week before the November election.
Enrollment numbers — as well see in a bit — are critical to the Affordable Care Act's continuation. So is the number of insurers participating in the federal and state insurance exchanges or marketplaces as they are now known. Losses on insureds have some insurers thinking of dropping out.
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Business Insurance has been a major source of commercial insurance information since 1967. Many of you take the magazine and others — like Weekly Industry News from time to time — access the website for information.
Last week Business Insurance publisher Crain Communications discontinued the publication and the website. It was a 49 year run. The news release from Crain Communications Executive Vice President KC Crain said the closing of the publication is due to structural and consolidation in the industry since 2008.
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We all hate traffic tickets. For one thing, they're expensive. Second, they could impact your insurance rates — as you know — if you receive too many of them. Driving habits are important and too much speeding may indicate you're more likely to get into an expensive collision. Speaking of tickets. Red cars and trucks — rumor has it — are targets and get more tickets than other vehicles. Not true says just about every commenting law enforcement agency in the country.
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Newkirk Products makes health insurance enrollment cards. One of its servers has apparently been "improperly accessed." Newkirk makes cards for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and North Carolina and for HealthNow New York and others. The total number of people served — 3.3 million.
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Philosophy 101. The only constant in the universe is change. Okay, maybe you didn't exactly get that from your introduction to the topic back in college — or if you're still in college — but you get the drift. Life and technology are changing at a lightning pace and soon some things Babyboomers — and in some cases Generation X, born between 1966 and 1976 and Millennials who were born between 1977 and 1984 — took for granted as a universal constant will be gone.
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