PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE AGENTS OF NEBRASKA & IOWA

More Willing to Share with Insurers | 7

Burn Out in Insurance, Finance and Manufacturing | 8

Distracted Driving — Not Just Texting | 10

Employment Lawsuits Drop to Lowest Point in a Decade | 12

Flood Insurance: Private Insurers Picking Up More Business | 13

Surplus Lines: Hitting New Premium Record | 14

Crime Concerns: Rising for Religious Services and Community Events | 16

2023 Underwriting: A Combined Ratio Worry | 18

Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions: Dropping in 2023 | 19

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 21

A New Supply Line Concern: Cargo Theft | 24

Scholarship Golf Outing-October 2, 2023 | 26

Cyber Coverage: Big Companies Buying, Smaller Ones Not so Much | 7

New Mexico: FEMA Delays a Big Concern | 7

A Nationwide Survey: What Your Clients Are Thinking | 8

California Homeowners Insurance Crisis: More to the Problem than State Farm | 10

More Controversy Coming: FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 Kicks into High Gear | 14

Working with Gen Z: Tough for Everyone | 16

Catalytic Converter Theft: Record Replacements from 2019 to 2022 | 20

Dogs & Insurance: So Doggone Confusing — Arizona’s Cure | 21

Earned Designations from January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 | 12

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 23

Scholarship Golf Outing-October 2, 2023 | 28

The Hard Market: The Hardest in Decades | 7

Failed Banks - Part 1: Insurer Exposure | 8

Failed Banks — Part 2: Banks Want an FDIC Guarantee Expansion | 9

Insurance Can be Complicated: Small Business Owners Struggling to Understand | 10

A.M. Best: Insurer Credit Ratings Downgraded | 11

Raising the Official Retirement Age? Most of Us Say NO! | 12

2022 Underwriting Losses: The Largest in Over a Decade | 14

Florida’s Tort Reforms: A Shot Heard Around the Country | 16

Cyber Attacks: A New, Very Frightening Statistic | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 21

The NICB: Auto Thefts Hit Over 1 Million in 2022 | 27

Big Changes: The Biden Administration’s Push to Increase Electric Vehicle Production | 29

Burned Out Workers Increasing: A Pandemic Hangover | 7

How PIA Independent Agents are Feeling in 2023: The Annual NU/PIA Survey results | 8

California’s Homeowners Insurance Crisis | 10

A New, Younger Generation Looks at Dream Jobs | 11

Just Capital: Insurance Companies Considered “Just” in 2023 | 14

A Survey: Women & Insurance Agency Leadership | 16

Allstate Cutting Agents: Huge Drop in Numbers | 19

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 21

Artificial Intelligence is Doing Away with Regular Intelligence: Carriers Cut Staffs 62% | 28

Insurance Advertising: Dropping | 30

Fourth Quarter 2022 Commercial Rates: Looks like the Rest of 2022 | 7

The FTC Pushing for Non-Compete Agreement Ban | 8

Learning From Other Insurance Agents. Listen As They Share Their Stories About Technology. | 9

The Most Reliable Autos | 10

A Problem that Keeps Growing Worse: Replacing Workers that are Retiring or Leaving | 11

PIA National — PIA Advocacy Day is BACK!!! | 13

January’s Commercial Rates — Still Risin’ | 16

Healthcare in the U.S.: We Don’t Think it’s All that Good | 16

Policies for KIA & Hyundai | 17

Hackers Hacked & the Operation Sacked | 18

Very Frightening & an Insurer Nightmare: Positive Drug Tests in Commercial Drivers | 19

Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 21

Big News — PIA National & AIMS Society to Merge | 7

Self-Driving Autos — We Still Don’t Trust Them | 9

Always a Fun Story — Auto Insurance Misconceptions | 10

Major Marketing Changes at GEICO | 12

NAIC Lists the Nation’s Largest P&C Insurers | 14

A New Labor Rule Proposed — Gig Workers Beware | 17

MarketScout — Insurance Rates in 2022’s Quarter 3 | 18

Good News from an Interesting Survey from HUB — We’re Feeling Underinsured | 20

New Designees! | 21

Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 23

P&C Underwriting: Big Losses in Quarter 1 of 2023 | 7

S&P: Underwriting Profitability to Come Back in 2024 | 7

Commercial Auto: The Nation’s Top Insurers | 8

Good News & Bad News: Retirees are Underestimating How Long They’ll Live | 10

It’s Official: Insurance One of the Sectors with the Most Remote Working During COVID | 14

Farmers Limits Policies in California: More Trouble for a Troubled Insurance Market | 15

Liberty Mutual Reorganization: 370 Jobs Eliminated | 16

A Victim of Work from Home: Office Building Values | 18

New Rules by the FTC for Irritating Robocalls & Telemarketing: Will They Work? | 20

Inflation Hits Personal Auto: HARD! | 21

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 23

Liberty Mutual Leaves California’s Business Insurance Market | 27

Scholarship Golf Outing-October 2, 2023 | 28

The Biggest Earners in Insurance | 7

The Biden Administration: The Flood Insurance Reforming Risk Rating 2.0 Needs Tweaking | 8

PIA National: Membership Benefits | 9

M&A Transactions: 2023 1st Quarter Lowest Since 2019 | 10

Non-Competes: PIA National Opposes Proposed FTC Ban | 12

Required Insurance for Firearms: A Survey | 14

Young Adults Aren’t So Sure about Insurance | 16

Distracted Driving: Part 1 — A Costly Ticket | 18

Distracted Driving: Part 2 — A Distracting Dog | 19

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 21

Ransomware: Impacts a Surprisingly Large Number | 28

Burned Out Workers Increasing: A Pandemic Hangover | 7

How PIA Independent Agents are Feeling in 2023: The Annual NU/PIA Survey results | 8

California’s Homeowners Insurance Crisis | 10

A New, Younger Generation Looks at Dream Jobs | 11

Just Capital: Insurance Companies Considered “Just” in 2023 | 14

A Survey: Women & Insurance Agency Leadership | 16

Allstate Cutting Agents: Huge Drop in Numbers | 19

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 21

Artificial Intelligence is Doing Away with Regular Intelligence: Carriers Cut Staffs 62% | 28

Insurance Advertising: Dropping | 30

Flood Insurance: What Consumers Don’t Understand | 7

Physical Attacks on the Power Grid: 

A Growing Problem that’s a Huge Worry | 8

PIA National Sets 2023 Policy Priorities | 8

The Biden Administration Going after Insurance Fraud: 

From Insurers | 10

2023 Salary Increases: 

Insurance Agency Manager in the Top-10 | 11

How We’re Feeling Financially | 12

The Biden Administration and Junk Fees | 16

Jobs in Insurance: Hiring Continues to be a Challenge | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 21

Jobs — Remote Job Search up 300% from Last Year | 7

Catalytic Converter Theft — Growing & Costly to Insurers | 8

Cyber Insurance Purchases on the Rise | 10

Contractors, Captives, and a Topsy-Turvy Market | 10

Ransomware Targets | 12

M&A Activity takes a Huge Drop | 13

Data Breaches — Who’s Hit Hardest | 14

Homeowners Insurance — Rising Rapidly | 16

Insurance Fraud Costs Each of Us about $1,000 a Year | 17

Writing Tip — Bag a Bunch of Greetings | 20

The Digital Age & Independent Insurance Agents | 21

Your Phone has been Hacked — How to Tell | 25

Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 23

Speeding Tickets — Autos Most Prone to Getting Them | 7

Some Surprising Statistics about Going to College | 8

Americans & Money — Are We Prepared for Emergencies | 9

The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud — A Frightening Study | 11

FEMA’s NFIP Redo a Possible Bust | 12

Crime — A Serious Rise in Some U.S. Cities | 14

Moody’s — Commercial Lines Combined Ratio in Free Fall | 16

J.D. Power — Rising Auto Rates a Serious Home/Auto Bundle Problem | 17

Underestimating — Cyber Attacks & the Cost to Small Business | 19

PIA NE/IA Convention | 20

New Designees! | 21

Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 23