All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2019 // Felony charges for grand theft and identity theft were filed against Alicia Calderon, 33, a former licensed insurance producer in California, after investigators reportedly discovered evidence that Calderon took money from...
Jun 6 2019 // Insurance Journal is now collecting information for its annual Top 100 property/casualty independent agency listing and other agency rankings. Submit your agency today.There are four ways to qualify: Complete this quick...
Jun 5 2019 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday will vote to adopt a package of rules mandating brokerage firms disclose potential conflicts in the fees investors pay and the commission brokers earn when...
Jun 5 2019 // Got a really interesting question this week. The essence of it is that the agent has a customer with a homeowners’ policy. The company is planning to renew coverage with the house on Actual Cash Value (ACV), rather...
Jun 5 2019 // Today, Insurance Journal premiers a brand new bi-weekly newsletter for insurance professionals and risk managers who are serious about cyber. It’s called Insuring Cyber. This newsletter is an in-box resource for...
Jun 5 2019 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, announced that it has acquired Cottenie and Gardner Inc., a Kamsack, Saskatchewan-based independent broker.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed....
Jun 5 2019 // Western Financial Group has furthered its strategic expansion in Ontario with the acquisition of EGM Insurance Group.Financial details of the acquisition, which is Western’s third brokerage acquisition in Ontario,...
Jun 5 2019 // Over the past decade, urgent care facilities have emerged as popular, convenient and cost-effective alternatives to primary care physicians and hospital emergency rooms. The number of urgent care facilities in the United...
Jun 4 2019 // A current insurance agent in Iowa and a former one have been charged in connection with a fraud investigation in which another agent was previously charged.Insurance agent Cursta Lena Williams of Davenport, and former...
Jun 3 2019 // Memo to insurance agency owners seeking to onboard new employees: Expect to pay more, offer more and train more.Those trying to hire know that already. “What we’re seeing in particular in Texas, and I imagine...
Jun 3 2019 // Jennifer Szalkay has rejoined Appalachian Underwriters’ Brokerage division in Sarasota, Fla. Now a senior broker, she will be working on specialty casualty and construction accounts in all 50 states. Jennifer...
Jun 3 2019 // Most agencies are not run as businesses. Most are run as a lifestyle. Lifestyles are personal, so perpetuation is not possible. Only true businesses can achieve internal perpetuation. Size is not a factor either because...
May 31 2019 // Former insurance agent Richard Brian Willand, 54, of Sylmar, Calif., voluntarily surrendered at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in San Fernando on a warrant for his arrest for alleged grand theft of insurance premium...
May 31 2019 // Iowa insurance agent Jonathan Adam Schlue, age 35, of Davenport, faces four counts of Fraudulent Sales Practices (Class D Felony), two counts of Fraudulent Submissions (Class D Felony), two counts of Conspiracy to Commit a...
May 31 2019 // Brett Gerger, former chief deputy director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, has joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois (IIA of IL) as director of Education & Agency Resources.In his new position,...
May 30 2019 // Insurance agency acquisitions and deal values are near an all-time high and all expectations are that deal flow in 2019 will match or exceed last year’s numbers. And while reported numbers tend to skew towards larger...
May 28 2019 // Agents and brokers can now input policy limit information directly into the Surplus Line Stamping Office of Texas’ (SLTX’s) Electronic Filing System (EFS).A new field has been added to the system to allow input...
May 28 2019 // The Chinese government is taking a major step in its efforts to sell a strategic stake in Anbang Insurance Group Co., the acquisitive insurer it took over last year amid a fraud investigation into its former chairman.Under...
May 24 2019 // Specialist insurer CFC is debuting a new broker platform designed to facilitate the sale of its cyber insurance products to small- and medium-sized businesses.The idea is that London, UK-based company’s cyber...
May 24 2019 // Big I New York, the state’s independent insurance producer trade association, has elected John Cofini as its chair of the board for the 2019-2020 term.Cofini was sworn in during a May 21 ceremony at Big I New...