PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE AGENTS OF NEBRASKA & IOWA

Special Report: Legal System Abuse | 7

Mergers & Acquisitions Up Through Quarter 3 of 2024 | 8

Nationwide: A Helpful Warning to Your Small Business Clients | 9

Insurance Spending: Hitting $3.8 Trillion in 2024 | 10

Top Brands: Allianz the Top Insurance Brand | 11

Are Your Homeowners Insureds Properly Insured? | 14

Over 250,000 Properties have Repeat NFIP Claims | 14

Excess & Specialty Insurers | 15

Progressive to Drop Non-Primary Dwelling Homeowners | 16

Safeco Purchases Main Street America’s Personal Lines | 17

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

Toys for Tots: Toy Drive | 19

PIA's Holiday Party | 20

The Changing Face of American Business | 22

Looking for Top Talent? Why Soon-to-Be Retirees May Be Your Best Hires | 24

NAIC Survey Gen Z Survey Shows Limited Understanding of Insurance | 7

PIA National has a New CEO | 9

Marsh: Business Loss Concerns in 2024 | 11

Earned Designations | 13

The Court Battle to Block FTC Non-Compete Reforms | 14

Homeowners & Insurance: A Disturbing Survey | 14

Ariel Rivera: Incoming President of the National Association of PIA | 18

Insurance Income Worldwide Expected to Hit $10 Trillion by 2028 | 19

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 20

PIA'ss Holiday Party | 23

Small Business & Insurers: Trust a Huge Issue | 24

Commercial Rate Increases Slowing Down | 25

Legal Reforms, Trial Attorneys & Third Party Litigation | 7

More Oregon Wildfire Losses for Berkshire Hathaway | 8

The Cost of Owning a Home: Up 26% Since 2020 | 9

Fall Travel Tip: A Map for Everything & We Mean Everything! | 10

P&C Underwriting Losses in 2023: $21.1 billion | 11

2023’s Auto Insurance Market: The Top-10 Insurers | 12

Change Healthcare: More Information on the February Cyberattack | 14

Space Junk, Damages and Insurance | 15

State Farm: The Good Neighbor’s not so Neighborly California Rate Hike Request | 26

Lockton: Commercial Rates Stabilizing | 27

Vacations & National Parks | 28

KUHL recently did a report on the safest and least safe of the nation’s national parks.

Question! Are Your Commercial Clients Properly Insured | 30

PIA National: FIO Reform Bill Passes House Financial Services Committee | 7

Special Report: Distracted Driving: Be Careful Out There | 9

Mergers & Acquisitions: Down in 1st Quarter of 2024 | 11

Commercial Insurance Rates Quarter 1 | 12

The Nation’s Largest Workers’ Compensation Carriers | 14

Dogs in Autos: Some Tail Wagging Facts | 15

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

Update: UnitedHealth Hack | 26

House Committee Passes Farm Bill with Crop Agent Inflation Adjustment | 27

EV Owners & Auto Insurance — Unhappy | 28

Commercial Auto Woes and a Report from the NAIC | 29

Fraud: Scams in 2023 Part 1 & Insurance Fraud Part 2 | 7

Mixed Outlook for Insurance Company Growth Next Year | 8

Special Report: PIA National and National Underwriter | 10

Ransomware Losses 2023: Over $1 Billion | 14

Animal & Autos: Montana Suffers Second Most Crashes in the U.S. | 14

Reagan Consulting: Independent Agency System: Record Growth in 2023 | 15

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 16

Young Workers & Injuries in States Where Recreational Pot is Legal | 21

U.S. House to Look at Wildfire Insurance Coverage & Federal Insurance Regulators | 22

Federal Insurance Office Backs off Data Collection Stance — PIA National Approves | 24

Insurer Upgrades & Downgrades: AM Best Downgraded 39 in 2023 | 25

Business & Risk: Not Enough Insurance | 7

PIA National’s Policy Priorities for 2024 | 8

Flood Insurance: Private Insurers Growing | 10

Special Report: Working Remotely in 2024 — Will it Go the Way of the Dinosaur? | 12

Insurers: The World’s Largest | 16

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

An Average Rise of 5.6% | 24

CInsurance Industry Layoffs: Close to 7,000 in 2023 | 24

Federal Insurance Office & State Regulated Insurance | 25

Finally: An Underwriting Profit | 7

Vehicles in 2023: The Most Stolen & Totaled | 8

Cyber Attacks: C-Suite Execs a Prime Target | 9

Gen Z Employees: Struggles in the Workplace Leading to Pink Slips | 10

Small Business & Rising Employee Lawsuits | 12

The Biggest Business Worries in 2024 | 14

Nationwide Survey: AI Scams Hitting Small Business | 15

Employee Shortages? Higher an Older Worker | 17

Teen Drivers: The Nation’s Most Affordable Teen Insurers | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 19

Toys for Tots: Toy Drive | 21

PIA's Holiday Party | 22

Triple-I: D&O Coverage Critical for Some Businesses | 24

Changes at the NFIP: Monthly Payments | 26

MarketScout: A Look at 2nd Quarter Insurance Prices | 7

Insurance Application Dishonesty: Many Consumers Consider it Okay | 8

Work Comp Rates | 10

Wages, Politics & the Upcoming Election: Part 1 | 11

Wages, Politics & the Upcoming Election: Part 2 | 12

Rural & Town Agents Seminar | 17

Small & Mid-Sized Businesses: Optimistic about the Future | 20

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 22

2024 Scholarship Golf Outing | 26

Who is Behind a New Insurance Watchdog | 7

Insurance & Traveling in Summer of 2024 | 8

Moody’s Homeowners Insurance Report: Rates Up, Profits Down | 9

Nuclear Verdicts: A Growing Concern | 10

Willis Towers Watson: Commercial Rates Stabilizing | 11

NAIC Ranks the Top Homeowners Insurers for 2023 | 12

Pet Insurance: A Prediction on Rates & Claims Data | 14

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

Combined Ratio Over 110 | 23

What is Old: Gen Z vs. Baby Boomers | 24

Insurance Applications: Over 20% Lie on Them | 25

The Best Selling Electric Vehicles & Their Battery Replacement Costs | 26

P&C Underwriting: Losses Dropped in 2023 | 7

JD Power’s Homeowners Insurance Satisfaction Survey: The Worst Satisfaction Level in 7 Years | 8

Travel Insurance: Record Payouts in 2023 | 10

Bridges: An Infrastructure Crisis | 12

Management & Replacing Employees with AI | 14

Insurance Rates: Rising but Worries Exist | 15

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 16

Small Business Worry: Cyberattacks | 24

NAIC: 2023’s 10 Top Carriers All Lines | 25

How’s Your Mental Health? The Worst & Best States | 26

Commercial Rates Keep Going Up and Up and Up | 7

U.S. Migration: Who’s Moving Where | 8

OThe Controversial Independent Contractor Rule Finalized | 10

AI — Do You Trust it? | 12

Insurance Regulation: A Bill Introduced to Keep Federal Government Out | 14

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 16

Auto Insurance: Double-Digit Increases in 2023 | 21

Commercial Rates in 2024: USI Says Rates Will Go Up but Not as Much as 2023 | 22

Empty Offices : An Insurance Worry for Building Owners | 24

Cargo Thefts: Way Up in the 3rd Quarter of 2023 | 25

APCIA Testifies Before Subcommittee | 7

Drug Shortages: House Republicans Open a Probe | 8

Mergers & Acquisitions: In Serious Decline | 10

Porch Pirates: A Growing & Costly Problem | 12

Insurance Rate Chaos: How Consumers Feel | 12

Small Business and Cybersecurity and Vulnerability | 16

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 18

Retirement & Women: Research | 24

Insurance Job Prospects: Not Promising Past 2026 | 25

Insurance Leaders & Risks | 26

Future Insurance Pricing: Two Reports | 27