
PIA-NE/IA Magazine Archives
2023 September
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
2023 July
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

2023 May
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

2023 April
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
2023 February
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
2022 December
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
2023 August
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
2023 June
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
2023 April
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
2023 March
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
2023 January
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
2022 November
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