PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE AGENTS OF NEBRASKA & IOWA

Self-Driving Vehicles: More Fear than Acceptance | 7
Work Comp & Small Business Clients | 8
PIA National’s Jon Gentile on NFIP Reauthorization | 10
The Reality of Wildfire in the West | 13
Not Unexpected: California Carrier Stops Policy Renewals | 14
Insurance Rates Continue to be Soften | 17
Insurance Companies & Fortune 500 | 20
The Private Flood Insurance Market: It’s Growing | 21
Traffic Fatalities: Some Surprises | 23
Your Employees, SmartPhones & Driving | 27
Congratulations to New Designation Holders! | 25
Scholarship Golf Outing: IronHorse, Ashland, NE | 26
Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 28

Insurance’s Newest Insuring Dilemma: Marijuana | 7
What Insurers Worry About | 8
NAIC Ranks P&C Premium Leaders | 9
FEMA Looking at Controversial NFIP Changes | 12
Shooter Events: Expensive for Business | 13
Passwords: We are so Careless | 14
Selling on Line: The Good, the Bad & Insurance | 17
Putting Distracted Driving in Insurance Perspective | 18
The High Cost of Work Injuries | 22
Surnames in Your State | 23
A Whole New Ballgame PIA NE IA 2018 Conference | 24
Congratulations to New Designation Holders! | 28
Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 30

Bill Reintroduced to Preserve State Regulation | 7
Stressed? You have One of the Most Stressful Jobs in the Nation | 8
Which States Have the Worst Drivers? | 12
Moody’s & Trump Tax Cuts | 15
Commercial Insurance Rates — Rising | 16
Gun Violence — A Breakdown of the Worst States | 19
Employment Discrimination in 2017 & Harvey Weinstein | 22
J.D. Power — Insurance Customer Satisfaction Skyrockets | 23
A Whole New Ballgame PIA NE IA 2018 Conference | 24
Congratulations to New Designation Holders! | 28
Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 30

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — Changes & Congress | 7
Sign Up for PIA’s Very Important Cyber Risk Program | 9
Rumor No More — Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Create Health Care Company | 11
Analysis: Small Business & Insurance | 12
PIA National Wants Congress to Finish NFIP Reform | 13
Update: Trump Tax Cuts & Insurance | 16
Your Clients — Savers, Savings & Such | 17
The U.S. Drops MetLife Too-Big-to-Fail Fight | 19
Top Business Worries 2018 | 22
Congratulations to New Designation Holders! | 24
Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 26

Tax Reform Talk — Senate Republicans, Trump, the People | 7
California’s Wildfires — The Aftermath | 9
Do You Know What’s Really Happening in Your Agency? | 10
Mergers & Acquisitions — On a Smaller Scale | 11
The Soft Market, Storms, Fires & Insurance Pricing | 12
Update: The Obama Administration-Labor Department Overtime Rule | 14
Annual Holiday Party - Benefiting Toys for Tots on December 13, 2017 | 15
J.D. Power — Insurers & Apps & Consumers | 16
Special Report: Flood Insurance Reform — PIA National Unhappy | 17
Cyber Threat Non-Answers and a Possible Answer | 22
A Workplace Problem — Cheating Employees | 25
Professional Insurance Agents - NE - 2018 Scholarship Application | 28
Professional Insurance Agents - IA - 2018 Scholarship Application | 30
Upcoming Events Calendar 2017-18 | 32
NEW Designees | 34
NEW Designees | 37
The New Cyber Nightmare — Holiday Shopping | 40

NFIP — Hurricane Harvey will be Expensive | 7
Could Hurricane Harvey End the Soft Market? | 8
AIG Off the Hook — No Longer too Big to Fail | 9
More Struggles for the National Flood Insurance Program | 10
Surprise — Consumers Worry about Insurance Personnel | 12
Annual Holiday Party - Benefiting Toys for Tots on December 13, 2017 | 14
Self-Driving Vehicles — Whoa! Wait a Minute | 15
Federal Insurance Office Reform Introduced | 18
A Positive Report — Millennials & Insurance | 20
Cyber Crime — Scams & Passwords | 23
Is the Social Security Number System Antiquated? | 25
A Happy Staff — More Profit | 30
Upcoming Events Calendar 2017 | 28

Meet PIA National Executive Vice President Mike Becker | 7
Tax Reform: More on the Way | 7
Employee Retention, Benefits & Job Satisfaction | 8
Senate Passes Farm Bill: PIA National Happy | 9
Special Report: Small Business & Insurance | 12
House Looks at Small Business Cyber Protection | 14
Scary Thought: The Person Generating a Text also Liable for a Collision? | 17
An Insurance Nightmare? Lawyer Numbers Increasing in the U.S. | 18
The Value of Insurance to the Economy | 18
Flood Insurance: We’re Still Waiting | 22
PIA NE IA 69th Annual Conference Wrap Up | 24
Congratulations to New Designation Holders! | 29
Greater Metro Omaha Commitees Annual Scholarship Golf Outing | 30
Your Clients & Words & Phrases | 31
Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 32

PIA Federal Legislative Summit | 7
Millennials & Insurance | 8
Your Clients — Average Income | 9
Medical Marijuana & Workers’ Compensation | 11
Flood Rates Rising — Look for an 8% Jump | 13
The Hail You Say? Nebraska & Other States Pummeled Annually | 14
Phone Addicted Drivers Driving | 15
Blockchain — A New Insurance Benefit? | 17
Nationwide to Shift to Using Independent Agents | 20
Arizona Makes English Official Insurance Language | 21
A Whole New Ballgame PIA NE IA 2018 Conference | 22
CIC & CISR Designees | 26
Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 28

A Mixed Bag — R Street Rates Insurance Commissioners | 7

Sign Up for PIA’s Very Important Cyber Risk Program | 8

Understanding Millennials | 9

New Federal Insurance Intrusion Worries | 12

Special Report: PIA National’s Annual Independent Agent Study | 14

Blue Cross Blue Shield to Congress — Stabilize ObamaCare | 20

Working from Home? Here are Some Tips | 21

PIA National, the NFIP Extension, Flood Dangers Rise | 24

NEW Designees! | 26

A Whole New Ballgame PIA NE IA 2018 Conference | 28

Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 32

How Commercial Insurance is Rated by Consumers | 7
Catastrophe in 2017 was Catastrophic | 9
2017: Mergers & Acquisition Numbers Skyrocket | 10
Special Report: The PIA, Cyber Risk, Cyber Concerns | 12
The Wells Fargo Saga May Not be Over | 14
Morgan Stanley: An Insurance Tax Reform Perspective | 16
Trump Backpedals on Crop Insurance | 17
Errors and Omissions: Avoid Gaps When Moving an Account | 19
Retiring Soon? The Best & Worst States for Retirement | 20
The Hartford Sells Annuities Business | 21
Congratulations to New Designation Holders! | 24
Update: Crisis — California’s Oroville Dam | 25
Upcoming Events Calendar 2018 | 26

Tax Reform — PIA & an Insurance Perspective | 7
Will ObamaCare Really Collapse? Maybe Not | 8
The Gig Workforce — Growing and an Opportunity | 10
The Future — It’s Here Now | 12
Annual Holiday Party - Benefiting Toys for Tots on December 13, 2017 | 13
Is Lifestyle Simplification an Answer to Disaster | 14
Mergers & Acquisitions — A Record Setting Pace | 16
Business Training Tax Credit | 18
Special Report — Cyber Crime Update | 20
Crystal Ball — 2018 Rates | 24
Professional Insurance Agents Nebraska Iowa - NE - 2018 Scholarship Application | 26
Professional Insurance Agents Nebraska Iowa - IA - 2018 Scholarship Application | 28
Upcoming Events Calendar 2017-18 | 30
Dodd-Frank Act — Leave Insurers Alone | 33
The Eternal Question — Salaries | 34

Special Report: The State of Insurance | 7
Eclipse Fever — Some Conclusions | 10
Hurricane Harvey — The Biggest Disaster Since Katrina | 11
Congress in September — All Eyes on Flood Reform | 15
The High Cost of Driving | 17
Driverless Vehicles — Never Thought of This One | 18
The GAO & Feinstein Target Crop Insurance | 19
Insurers & Data — Now What? | 20
Another look at Jobs | 20
Emergency Planning — Maybe it’s Time to have THE Talk | 22
Surprise! ObamaCare’s Death Greatly Exaggerated | 31
Upcoming Events Calendar 2017 | 28