PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE AGENTS OF NEBRASKA & IOWA

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

Swiss Re & Commercial Lines Rates: Rising Significantly in 2023 and 2024 | 7

Retirement: Some Disturbing Information | 8

Shoplifting Surge Costs Retailers, Leads to Closures | 10

CEOs and AI: Close to Half Think AI should Replace Them | 12

Raises: Lots of Belt-tightening in 2024 | 14

The Homeowners and Auto Insurance Crisis: Getting Worse | 14

Artificial Intelligence & Insurance Agents: The Public Wants Real Intelligence | 16

Generation Z & Work: The Times They are Changing | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 19

Statistics and the Homeowners Insurance Crisis | 21

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

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

Insurance Crisis | 7

Agent Carrier Satisfaction: Mostly Positive | 9

Claims: Speed or Fairness? What Matters Most | 10

The Net Worth of the Average American & the Average American Family | 11

The Federal Reserve has good news for the

Insurance Rate Chaos: How Consumers Feel | 12

Small Business: 75% are Underinsured | 14

Commercial Auto: Insurers Looking Hard at Telematics | 16

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 18

Auto Thefts: Rising Toward Record Levels | 21

Resumes: Are Your Job Seekers Telling the Truth? | 22

Profits Reign in New Survey from Earnix | 24

850 Jobs : Liberty Mutual Cut 2% of the Company Workforce | 25

Carrier Insolvency and Your E&O Policy | 26

Farmers & GEICO Insurance Reorganizing — Lots of Layoffs Coming | 7

Businesses Looking for More Insurance Protection | 8

A Great Gig if You can Get One: The Top-Earning Insurance Company CEOs | 10

AAA — Driver Assistance Systems could be a Lifesaver | 11

Your Auto, Privacy & Security: Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included Project | 12

Climate Change Seriously Impacting Crop Insurance | 14

Commercial Rates: Still Rising says the CIAB & Ivans | 16

Insurers & TV Advertising: Impressions are Dropping | 18

Upcoming Events Calendar 2023 | 21

Credit Scoring: Biden Administration Wants Medical Bills Removed | 24

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