User talk:Professional Insurance Agents

Insurance

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PIA is a not-for-profit volunteer-driven insurance trade group for professional independent agents, however, the information we provided was sourced from unbiased groups such as the Insurance Information Institute and the Wall Street Journal. The primary reason we felt the need to add content to this page in the first place is that it already contained some EXTREMELY BIASED and FACTUALLY INACCURATE information on independent agents. Namely the following sentence: "Commissions to agents represent a significant portion of an insurance cost and insurers such as State Farm that sell policies directly via mass marketing campaigns can offer lower prices. The existence and success of companies using insurance agents (with higher prices) is likely due to improved and personalized service.[12]" The article this is sourced from is from 1995 and its facts are dubious. If you check the non-biased sources we cited in our contribution (or search for yourself), you will see that in fact independent agents do NOT have higher prices than direct sellers or captive agents. In fact, commissions to agents represent NO portion of insurance cost to consumers. Insurance carriers include agent commissions as marketing expenses, not as part of policy cost. We're also curious why State Farm is mentioned BY NAME in this sentence as an insurer with low prices. That's practically an endorsement. If that's not biased, we don't know what is.Professional Insurance Agents (talk) 19:49, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

August 2011

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Insurance, you may be blocked from editing. You appear to have a conflict of interest in insurance topics. Your contributions are not helpful if you cannot maintain a neutral point of view. This is your second warning in two days. If you continue advocating for independent agents you will be blocked from editing. Joja lozzo 19:21, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PIA is a not-for-profit volunteer-driven insurance trade group for professional independent agents, however, the information we provided was sourced from unbiased groups such as the Insurance Information Institute and the Wall Street Journal. The primary reason we felt the need to add content to this page in the first place is that it already contained some EXTREMELY BIASED and FACTUALLY INACCURATE information on independent agents. Namely the following sentence: "Commissions to agents represent a significant portion of an insurance cost and insurers such as State Farm that sell policies directly via mass marketing campaigns can offer lower prices. The existence and success of companies using insurance agents (with higher prices) is likely due to improved and personalized service.[12]" The article this is sourced from is from 1995 and its facts are dubious. If you check the non-biased sources we cited in our contribution (or search for yourself), you will see that in fact independent agents do NOT have higher prices than direct sellers or captive agents. In fact, commissions to agents represent NO portion of insurance cost to consumers. Insurance carriers include agent commissions as marketing expenses, not as part of policy cost. We're also curious why State Farm is mentioned BY NAME in this sentence as an insurer with low prices. That's practically an endorsement. If that's not biased, we don't know what is.Professional Insurance Agents (talk) 19:49, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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