All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 23 2025 // A former chief executive officer of a statistical agent that compiles data from insurance companies for state insurance departments has been sentenced on charges related to her theft of millions of dollars from the...
Dec 23 2025 // CRC Specialty, an independent wholesale specialty insurance distributor, named two new brokers in its Southeast operations. Ron Bussey will be a senior broker based in Nashville, focused on casualty insurance placements...
Dec 23 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services reported that it was chosen by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) as the insurance broker for Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway project, a $2 billion project that was...
Dec 19 2025 // The former co-leader of a collapsed Georgia savings and loan, a lending firm that is now the subject of state and federal Ponzi scheme investigations, has been granted an insurance producer’s license in the...
Dec 17 2025 // Insurance technology provider Zywave unveiled an agentic AI strategy, and what it calls the industry’s first suite of insurance-specialized AI agents.The agents will help insurance companies transform how they work...
Dec 16 2025 // As an independent agent, you know the truth: acquiring new clients is often much more expensive than keeping the ones you already have. The old saying, “new business is king,” no longer entirely rings true....
Dec 15 2025 // A new broker is now suing Howden US and a pair of former employees for allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets.Last week Aon Risk Services Cos. filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...
Dec 15 2025 // With the winter holidays quickly approaching, independent agencies are looking for ways to reclaim precious time—to unwind and recharge. Between client requests, policy servicing, sales demands, carrier logins, and...
Dec 12 2025 // A man convicted of flashing workers at three insurance agencies in Warner Robins, Georgia, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.Demarcus Tyrell Mann, 30, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in October, after he was...
Dec 12 2025 // The Hill, a prominent Washington, D.C.-based political newspaper, named Charles Symington, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”), among the top trade...
Dec 9 2025 // A Baltimore County jury has found Michael C. Okolo, of Parkville, Maryland, guilty of two counts of insurance fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.According to Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown Okolo was...
Dec 9 2025 // After seeing some of the frustration that insurance agents run into, the head of a well-known south Florida agency has launched a hybrid vehicle – part brokerage and part program manager.CSMV Underwriting Managers, based...
Dec 9 2025 // Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series will host the “AI Tools for Retail Agents” Demo Day, which offers free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for retail insurance agencies.The latest online...
Dec 8 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Aon plc and AHJ Miller.A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Names Norman as Senior Broker in its Global ReSpecialty Property...
Dec 5 2025 // Private equity firms EQT AB, PAI Partners and Stone Point have been shortlisted in the bidding for German insurance brokerage Global Group, people familiar with the matter said.Global Group, which is backed by buyout firm...
Dec 3 2025 // There has been much discussion in the insurance industry about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can take on mundane, laborious tasks and complete them in a fraction of the time it would take a human.But the...
Dec 3 2025 // A new flood insurance quoting platform aims to streamline the process for insurance agents and brokers, providing real-time quotes from federal and private insurers all in one place. Flood Quotes is owned by National Flood...
Dec 2 2025 // Monrovia, CA – Dec 2, 2025 – When a broker faced a sudden non-renewal on a large and complex account, the expert intervention of an in-house underwriter at Greenwood General Insurance proved instrumental, transforming...
Dec 2 2025 // Marsh McLennan Agency acquired three privately owned Honolulu, Hawaii-based insurance brokerages from Tradewind Group.Collectively, Atlas Insurance Agency, Pyramid Insurance Centre, and IC International created an...
Dec 1 2025 // Australia’s AUB Group said on Monday its suitors EQT and CVC Asia Pacific had abandoned their pursuit that valued the insurance broker at A$5.25 billion ($3.44 billion), sending its shares more than 17% lower.Shares...