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On Our Mind…Thank You!

​By Allison Just, Meeting & Governance Manager Thank you! We put out a challenge to rock social media with how awesome it is to work in insurance. Rock you did. Not once did I see an agent with a briefcase at a kitchen table (what I used to think of insurance before I joined Big I NY; my parents tidying up before our agent came to our house). What did I – and the rest of the social media world – see?Smiling faces. People with their dogs. Babies on laps (future agents, perhaps?). Bags of groceries being donated to a neighborhood charity. Posts about being thankful…

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Big ‘I’ Praises Reintroduction of Main Street Tax Certainty Act

​Legislation to make small business deduction permanent reintroduced in House and Senate. WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2021— The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I") is grateful for the reintroduction of the “Main Street Tax Certainty Act" in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Jason Smith (R-Missouri) and Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana). The legislation would make permanent a 20% deduction on qualified business income for some owners and shareholders of pass-through businesses.“The Big 'I' thanks Reps. Smith and Cuellar and Sen. Daines for their work to reintroduce the Main Street Tax Certainty Act,"…

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Agents Make Their Voices Heard in Albany

During this week's Independent Agents Advocacy Week, more than 70 independent agents conducted virtual meetings with more than 40 state legislators to call for pro-policyholder reforms. Key issues included making the auto photo inspection requirement voluntary, streamlining the process for placing coverage in the excess market, repealing the anti-arson application, and preventing no-fault insurance fraud.The event gave Big I NY members the opportunity to meet face to face with their elected state representatives. Kelly Gonyo, owner of the Blue Line Insurance Agency said,“I am so fortunate to have been given an opportunity to use my voice to directly speak with our lawmakers who represent us in…

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