
PIA-NE/IA Magazine Archives
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
2022 September
Update: Your PIA Membership Benefits | 7
Inflation, High Gas Prices & What the Average Household Earns — An Interesting Study | 8
Mergers & Acquisitions — A Rebound on the Way | 11
S&P Warning — The Combined Ratio Could Top 100% in 2022 | 12
The Big Backfire — Attorney Lawsuit Billboards | 14
Recession & Insurers — Insurers are Well-Prepared | 16
Postage & Stamps Just got More Expensive | 17
Wouldn’t We All like This — Allied Underwriters Gives Entire Staff 10% Raise | 18
MarketScout & Insurance Rate Increases — Still Rising | 19
Insureds Think Car Color Impacts Insurance Rates | 20
The Professional Insurance Agents NE IA and
New Designees! | 23
Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 24
2022 July
Huh? What? People Actually Lie when Purchasing Auto Insurance? | 7
Legalized Pot — High Time to Define Driving High | 9
Cyber Insurance Growth over 92% between 2020 and 2021 | 13
Flying in 2022 — The Not-So-Friendly Skies | 15
Special Report: The Highs and Lows of Insurance Industry Pay | 18
High inflation and the ever-growing Commercial Rates Continue to Rise — Here’s Why | 20
Inflation Hits the PIA States Hard | 21
New Designees! | 25
Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 26
2022 May
Cyber Attacks & What Business Faces Going Forward | 7
A Hard Look at Customer Service | 8
Likely to Hit or Kill a Pedestrian | 9
Commercial Prices & 2022’s 1st Quarter — Up | 11
Commercial Property Insureds — Underinsured | 12
Wildfire — Statistics | 13
Insurance Execs — Expect a Recession Soon | 14
Drinking: Drink and Live Longer | 19
Flood Rating 2.0 — In Effect Now | 20
Life Expectancy in the U.S. Continues to Decline | 21
The Economy — 2/3 of Us View it as Bad | 25
New Designees! | 23
Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 25
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
2022 October
Flooding — Insured Losses Increasing | 7
The Nation’s Top 10 Health Insurance Companies | 8
AM Best Gives Personal Lines a Negative Outlook | 11
FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 — Chasing People from the Flood Market | 12
Extreme Weather & Young Homeowners | 14
Older Retired Workers Unretiring | 15
Pet Insurers — Forbes Advisor Points to the 10 Best | 16
An Insurance Issue — Dangerous Jobs | 18
Legal Pot & Auto Crash Deaths — A Frightening Statistic | 25
Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 21
Congratulations Mark Suhr | 24
2022 August
Program Reformed | 7
The Highest Paid Broker CEOs | 8
Property Casualty Profit & Loss in 2021 | 11
FEMA — The Nation Needs Better Building Codes | 12
The Most Data-Breached Nation on Earth — Not a Hard One to Guess | 15
More News on the Great Resignation — Returning to the Office | 16
Commercial Prices — Still Rising | 17
Crime on the Rise — Cargo Losses | 18
GEICO on the Hook for a Woman Getting an STD in a Car | 24
NEW Designee's! | 21
Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 22
2022 June
Small Business in 2022 — It’s a Struggle | 7
Failure — Small Business & Cybersecurity | 8
Nationwide Wants Hands-Free Phone Laws Nationwide | 9
Statistics — NAIC & Insurance Confusion | 11
Flood Insurance — Rates to Rise for 81% | 13
Mergers and Acquisitions — Down So Far this Year | 15
Just for Fun — Another Angle to Texting, Driving and SmartPhones | 19
Homeownership & Inflation & Building Costs | 21
Wildfire: Two Frightening Reports | 22
Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 26
2022 April
Major Insurers Exit Russia in Mass | 7
Pets & People — Goodbye is a Pet Stressor | 11
Long Hours Increasing | 12
The Top 25 P&C Insurers of 2021 — NAIC Report | 16
Women & Insurance Agency Ownership — Just 31% are Owners | 20
Insurance Rates — Things are Shifting | 21
PIA National and its New Cyber Assessment Program | 22
Good & Not So Surprising News — Consumers Prefer Buying Home & Auto Locally | 23
Working Remotely — Is it Losing its Luster? | 26
Upcoming Events Calendar 2022 | 28