PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE AGENTS OF NEBRASKA & IOWA

A Survey: Rising Homeowners Insurance | 6

Insurance Fraud: A Disturbing Survey | 8

The Best States to Live in: How Does Your State Rank? | 9

Special Report: Holiday Travel & Airports | 12

J.D. Power: Independent Insurance Agents Feel Undervalued | 15

Another Impact of AI: Gen Z Losing Entry Level Jobs | 16

Upcoming Events Calendar 2026 | 20

Sleep: A Third of Us are Using Personal Time Off to Catch Up | 29

Owners, Insurance & the Economy | 30

Farmers Insurance Data Breach: Over a Million Impacted | 6

State Farm’s Homeowners Rate Increase, the CA Legislature & a CA Court | 7

Employers Wanting More Leadership on Risk from Brokers | 8

UFOs and Insurance: Some Out of this World Fun | 10

Aon: It’s a Soft Commercial Market but will it Last? | 11

A Bill to — again — limit Federal Interference into Insurance Regulation | 12

A Survey: Workers & Sick Leave | 13

The Workplace & Job Hunting | 15

Investing in Insurance: Stocks Sky High | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2025 | 20

Mark Suhr Installed as President of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents | 22

The Nation’s Senior Speed Junkies: Should We Worry? | 26

Agency Leadership Series | 7

Business & Insured Losses: Big Worries | 9

U.S. House Looks at Auto Insurance Rate Discrimination: PIA Reacts | 10

Electric Vehicles: Americans Not Sold on Them | 12

Commercial Prices Up But the Trend is Downward | 14

PIA Summer Leadership Series | 17

Auto Insurance: Consumers Not that Loyal These Days | 15

Upcoming Events Calendar 2025 | 20

2025 Rural Town & Agents Seminar | 24

Homeowners Know but Do Nothing | 26

Homeowners Insurance Rates: A Frightening Statistic | 27

Happy, Engaged Workers: On the Decline | 28

Two Bills in Congress about the Federal Office of Insurance: PIA Wants it Gone — Period | 7

A Federal Approach to the Wildfire Crisis A Federal Approach to the Wildfire Crisis | 9

Delivery Driving Worries Worry Nationwide & Probably Everyone Else | 10

PIA National Disaster Relief Fund Distributions | 12

United HealthCare: New CEO Says He’ll Fix the Gaps | 13

Corporate Security: Fallout from the Murder of United Health CEO | 14

ValuePenguin: 25% of Homeowners in 2025 Dropped by their Insurer | 16

Insurance Fraud High on White-Collar Crime List | 17

Stress: 1 in 6 Say They’re Stressed Every Day | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2025 | 20

2025 Rural Town & Agents Seminar | 26

Distracted Driving: 20% of Us Still Text While Driving | 28

2025 Wildfire Forecast | 29

NAIC & PIA Agree: Do Away with the Federal Insurance Office | 7

New Mexico Governor Wants State Run Homeowners Insurance | 8

Oregon’s SAIF CEO has Home Riddled with Bullets | 9

Fatal Accidents | 10

Culture, Flexibility, and Growth Major Factors In Motivating Gen Z Agents | 11

Employees & Chronic Conditions: A Hidden Workplace Problem | 12

Wildfire: $2 Trillion US Homes At Risk | 14

Flood Insurance: A Growing, but Unnoticed, Need | 16

Not so Safeco: Liberty Mutual to Drop the Brand | 17

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

Wonder What Consumers Wonder about Insurance? A Google Survey 

Reveals All | 24

Special Report: Ransomware & Scams in 2024 | 25

Carriers, Consumers & the Digital Insurance Experience | 7

A Different Kind of Holiday Hangover — Financial | 8

Insurance & the Super Bowl — We’ll Miss Them | 9

The U.S. Senate & Insurance Non-Renewal Rates | 10

State Farm, the FAIR Plan & California’s Wildfires | 14

Wildfires, Floods & the NFIP — Are Reforms in the Wind? | 14

Montana Congressman Troy Downing — Abolish the Federal Insurance Office | 15

Insurance and AI — Client Trust is Mixed | 16

Depressed Employees & a Lot of Missed Workdays | 17

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

Mergers & Acquisitions — 2024’s Final Count | 26

Homeowners Insurance: The National Average Now $2,802 a Year | 7

What the Generations Know about Insurance Coverage: Not Much | 8

The Hartford Study: U.S. Workers Under Financial Strain | 9

Commercial Rates & Surplus Lines: One Mixed, the Other Up | 10

Consumers & AI: We Want Humans! | 12

Small Business: Keeping Your Small Business Clients | 13

LexisNexis Risk Solutions: DUIs, Speeding & Distracted Driving Up  | 14

Marshberry to be Bought by Lincoln International | 15

Upcoming Events Calendar 2025-26 | 18

Employees & Employers: Workers’ Compensation Confusion | 23

Executives & Cyber Security: Different Survey, Same Worries | 6

The Business of Business Insurance | 8

Earthquakes: The 10 Most Vulnerable Cities | 10

Consumers Making Insurance Cuts to Pay for Monthly Expenses | 11

Auto Thefts: A Growing PIA Western Alliance State Problem | 13

Property Owners, Insurers & Claims: No Trust There | 15

This is Not a Surprise: Older Clients Don’t Like Doing Digital Insurance | 16

The Most Dangerous States in the U.S | 17

Doctors on Doctoring: Not a Recommended Profession | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2025 | 20

Golf Outing - September 30, 2025 | 23

August 29th: The 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina | 24

PIA National to Congress: Reject the Big Beautiful Bill’s AI Moratorium | 7

NEXT Insurance Survey of Small Business: The Biggest Concerns — Inflation & Labor | 9

The Sign Post Ahead: Drivers in a Twilight Zone of Insurance Frustration | 10

PIA National’s Summer School: The Summer Agency Leadership Series PIA National’s Summer School — The Summer Agency Leadership Series | 11

PIA Summer Leadership Series | 17

GEICO’s Struggles: Terminates 30,000 Employees | 13

FEMA: Big Changes Coming? | 14

Upcoming Events Calendar 2025 | 18

2025 Rural Town & Agents Seminar | 22

Tort Reform Part 1: The High Cost to the Economy | 24

Tort Reform Part 2: Nuclear Verdicts | 26

Tort Reform Part 3: The Triple I Takes Action | 27

More Stressed in 2025 than 2024 | 7

Federal Financial Dependence | 9

Flood Insurance and the NFIP: A Senate Bill Wants an Extension into 2026 | 10

AM Best 2024 Downgrades & Upgrades | 11

Just for Fun — A Really Dumb Criminal and a Not-so-Dumb 4-year Old | 12

Allstate Survey: Worries about Tax Return Scams | 14

Is this a Surprise? Women Make up the Majority of the Insurance Workforce | 16

Annual P&C Direct Premiums Hit $1 Trillion | 17

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 20

the Insurance Industry & Claims | 26

Trump’s Tariffs and Insurance: A Big Concern | 27

Special Report: MarketScout & 1st Quarter 2025 Rates | 28

National Association of Insurance Commissioner List the Top P&C Insurers | 29

An Important APCIA Report | 7

Executives & Insurance:

Not Enough Coverage | 8

The Most Dangerous Month of the Year | 9

PIA National to Congress: Protect Crop Insurance & Avoid Cuts | 12

S&P Global Market Intelligence: Worries about Homeowners Rates | 14

California: LA Wildfire Damages, State Farm & Rate Hikes | 15

A Bipartisan Effort to Control Wildfires | 17

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

Forget Universal Health Care: Texas Looking State Run Auto Insurance | 22

Part of Homeowners Insurance Cost Rise Explained: Dramatic Increases in Reconstruction Costs | 23

Drowsy Driving: Dangerous & Brings Huge Insurance 

Problems | 8

ASCI Rates the Nation’s Top P&C Insurers | 9

Online Concerns: We Worry about Social Media & the 

Dark Web | 10

Cyber Crime: Where We’re Being Attacked | 12

Porch Pirates: Never Ending Battle | 14

CIAB: Third Quarter Commercial Rates Up Slightly | 14

A.M Best: A Very Report for the First 3/4 of 2024 | 16

S&P: The World’s Largest Insurers | 17

Upcoming Events Calendar 2024 | 18

NFIP Reforms: A Tax Credit for Premium Relief | 26