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Manassas, VA

Edinburg Ins Agcy LLC T/A Wightman

Edinburg, VA 

Associations:

Moberg Grp Inc Franklin, NC
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The IRS annually limits how much employees of certain-sized employers can be asked to pay for their health insurance coverage/shared premium as part of the ACA shared-responsibility affordability requirement. In 2018, the employee shared responsibility limit has been communicated as 9.56 percent of an employee’s household income. An employer can base the calculation on the employers least expensive ACA compliant plan. This is down from 9.69 percent in 2017. AP Group is here to help, soplease contact us with questions.


Monty Dise, President
Asset Protection Group, Inc.
mdise@apgroupinc.com
804-423-7700

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RiskLookUp: All in One Tool to Research Property Risk Information


Insurance agents have used various tools to look up and verify specific homeowner’s property information. Unfortunately, agents currently need to go to multiple websites to gather information that will give them a complete view of the property information. These tools include:

Visit https://steveanderson.com/2018/01/25/risklookup-all-in-one-tool-to-research-property-risk-information/ to view the full article online.

Local Presence. Regional Strength.
Penn National Insurance®
Penn National Insurance is small enough to provide personal, caring interactions, but large enough to serve you and your policyholders with the same sophistication and product offering of the largest carriers. We back our promise to help people feel secure and make life better when bad thing happen with our strong financial position, and we remain committed to distributing our products and services through independent agencies.
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State & National News
  

WASHINGTON ― The Internal Revenue Service announced today that the nation’s tax season will begin Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, and also reminded taxpayers claiming certain tax credits that refunds won’t be available before late February.

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13.98% of your of dues is not deductible as an ordinary business expense due to lobbying, etc. If you have any questions, please contact John Montoro at jmontoro@rta-solutions.com.

Atlantic Specialty Lines, Inc.
Millers Mutual Insurance Company
IIAV News
  

Check out this article in Insurance Business Magazine featuring our very own Jen Amick of S. L. Nusbaum Insurance Agency in Norfolk. Congratulations, Jen, and thank you for your leadership within your agency, IIAV, and the profession! We couldn't be more proud of you!

Visit https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/people/preserving-a-familys-legacy-in-insurance-89732.aspx to view the full article online.

  

Continental Underwriters, Inc., a Richmond, Virginia-based Managing General Underwriter and Wholesale Broker specializing in providing insurance and risk management solutions for companies in the forest products industry, is proud to announce the promotion of Amanda Huang to Chief Operating Officer.

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Upcoming Events

Registration is now open for the 2018 IIAV Annual Conference & Exposition.

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Penn National Insurance
Education
  

We try to envision what the new agency will look like and how automation, rapid advancements in IoT, bots, etc. will impact the skills needed for the new agency service team of the future. We can benchmark these off the universal predictions of the top 10 skills needed for jobs in 2020. This is only two years away! 

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ABEN offers continuing education programs to independent agents through live and archived webcasts, supplementing the already wide variety of classes offered by IIAV.


Any class you register with ABEN counts toward their rewards program and, for a limited time, you can receive 25 percent off any course! Enter discount code VAFeb for 25 percent off purchases made during the month of February 2018. The purchased webcast(s) can be for any airing date, and the code may be combined with the rewards program.

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E&O Spotlight
  

An ancient proverb would have us believe that "there's nothing new under the sun." That may have been true once upon a time, but beyond question, the speaker was not referring to modern insurance markets. As new risks emerge at a dizzying pace, new insurance products are being developed to respond and protect insureds from these new (and some old) exposures. It goes without saying that even a good insurance agent can get into trouble placing these new coverages, which begs the question: how can an insurance agent dealing with these new products protect themselves from an unwanted E&O claim? 

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Virginia Association of Insurance Agents

VAIA will be participating in two career fairs in the near future, and we need your help. Please see the dates and times below and let us know if you are available to participate for all or part of either.

February 13 – VCU Spring Business Career Fair
8:30am-3:00pm
VCU School of Business, Snead Hall
*We need 2-4 additional volunteers

March 8 – RVA Career Expo
9:00am-2:00pm
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
*We need 2-4 volunteers

The main talking point will be the new course we are offering in partnership with the Community College Workforce Alliance. If you have not yet heard about this initiative, we are incredibly excited about it and hope you will help us spread the word.

To volunteer, please email Rebecca Arnold with your preferred date and time. Thank you so much for your willingness to represent VAIA and the insurance profession!

From the Desk of the Chief Operation Officer
  

Is there any circumstance where there would be aircraft liability coverage under a Virginia Personal Auto policy?


A firm by the name of Terrafugia, founded by five Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates in 2006, is finalizing production on a flying car (or driving plane, depending on our viewpoint) estimated to be delivered to consumers within three years.

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