L-Day 2020

Your fellow Big I Tricounty members boarded a van and ‘road-tripped’ up to our State's Capitol for the day to meet with our Senators and Assemblymen & women regarding insurance issues that affect our business and the business of our insureds.  After a brief overview of the day and the discussion points, which we had spoken about on the webinars leading up to the event, “we hit the hill.”  Your board had meetings with 11 legislators in 4 hours.  It certainly was a whirlwind of activity.   We discussed hot topics in the budget that we oppose regarding increased fines to our industry and expansions…

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Big I NY Members Storm the Capitol for Independent Agents Advocacy Day

  This week, Big I NY members from Buffalo to Long Island traveled to Albany to urge lawmakers to take action on a number of key issues affecting IAs and our customers. Delegations from nearly all of our local associations, including many members of the Group of 100​, kicked off the day with a briefing session before departing for meetings with state lawmakers representing their region. Members urged lawmakers to reject a significant expansion of the Department of Financial Services' authority to prosecute unfair, deceptive, and abusive business practices, as well as a dramatic and unwarranted increase in insurance law fines and penalties. Big I…

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