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DirectExpress Special - February 17, 2010
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The Great ALI Hoax - or how Allstate agents have been double-crossed
February 17, 2010, NAPAA Headquarters, Gulfport, MS  An Agency Loyalty Index (ALI) score below 60 three years in a row will result in agency contract termination. Management began to incorporate the survey results from 2007 and 2008 into the ...
Allstate Segments Agents and Realigns Sale Managers
February 12, 2010, NAPAA Headquarters, Gulfport, MS Allstate began 2010 with a management shuffle that looks more like a deceptive shell game than it does meaningful change. To that effect, the company's announcement of its management ...
NAPAA Responds to Allstate "Denial"
February 13, 2010, NAPAA Headquarters, Gulfport, MS In NAPAA's opinion, the statements made by Allstate since this story broke in the Chicago Tribune are not "denials" at all, but rather attempts to camouflage the truth. NAPAA ...
Letter to the Editor, Chicago Tribune
January 30, 2010 RE: Allstate May Shed 20% of its Agents  Hometown favorite Allstate Insurance is embroiled in a nasty PR battle with its own agents that were at one time employees.  In 2000, Allstate fired all of its agent/employees ...
Are You a Victim of Age Discrimination?
Do the following statements apply to you? I started my career as an Allstate agent prior to 1990, as an employee with benefits. I was converted from employee agent to independent contractor agent, with substantially no change in my job other that ...
Involuntary Agent Contract Terminations
Terminated or threatened with contract termination? If you have received a 90 notice of termination of your contract, or have sold your agency because of the threat of an impending termination, please respond to this notice promptly.Ron Harper, ...
Agents Turn to IRS to Clarify Status
For Immediate Release  Contact: Jim Fish, ExecutiveDirector@napaausa.org Agent group expects a flurry of filings from improperly classified workers... Allstate ‘independent contractor' agents turn to IRS to clarify their ...
Agents Seek Intervention by IRS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jim Fish, 877-269-3474, ExecutiveDirector@napaausa.org Agents seek intervention by IRS…Allstate independent contractor agents petition IRS for rights as business owners. October 5, 2009, GULFPORT, MS....In ...
Customer Loyalty Survey (ALI)
News from NAPAA  March 24, 2009, DirectExpress, NAPAA Headquarters  Customer Loyalty Survey  Shortly after Allstate published the 2008 fourth quarter and year-end results, we began to see the media reporting statements made by their ...
A Case of EEOC Confusion
News from NAPAA –  September 15, 2009, NAPAA Headquarters  NAPAA has received numerous inquiries regarding the EEOC announcement that a settlement agreement had been reached with Allstate in the “hiring moratorium’ ...
Romero vs Allstate
July 29, 2009   From the Allstate Agents Litigation WebsiteOn July 29, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a per curium (unanimous) opinion in which it vacated Judge Fullam's ruling of June 20, ...
Private Letter Ruling
On November 15, 1988, Allstate submitted a request for ruling on status of Exclusive Agents for Federal Tax Purposes to the IRS in advance of introduction of the new program that would be rolled out in 1990.On June 23, 1989,the IRS published Private ...

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