All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 15 2019 // In June 2005, a 63-year-old woman was thrown from a tram at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro. The vehicle tipped over onto her, seriously injuring her shoulder and requiring years of treatment. The state paid out $85,000...
Mar 14 2019 // Boston-based insurtech company Corvus Insurance has expanded its underwriting appetite for its Smart Cyber Insurance product lines with the launch of an excess cyber insurance policy designed to give brokers the ability to...
Mar 13 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the first two months of 2019.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to...
Mar 12 2019 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S) has hired Shikha Hornsey as chief information officer based in East Providence, R.I.Hornsey will be responsible for formulating organizational growth through...
Mar 11 2019 // A San Antonio woman pleaded guilty to fraud after a Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigation found she pocketed money from clients who thought they were buying home policies.Cynthia Olague, a former insurance...
Mar 11 2019 // Global insurance broker Lockton has formed a global reinsurance business, Lockton Global Re, and hired several Guy Carpenter executives as part of its leadership team.In addition to Lockton CEO Ron Lockton, the leadership...
Mar 8 2019 // Phillip Hawley, president of Hawley & Associates in Bellevue, Wash., understands the power of referrals in the nonprofit insurance world. His entire agency’s book of business took root with nonprofit referrals...
Mar 8 2019 // Nonprofits are a lot like most insurance clients. They seek trusted and consultative relationships with their agents, brokers and carriers. They seek partners that understand their mission. But they also seek agents who...
Mar 8 2019 // After more than 25 years in the insurance industry, Donald Bragg has joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia as the director of Membership & Marketing.Bragg comes to IIAV with experience in both personal...
Mar 8 2019 // Tribal First, a division of Alliant Underwriting Solutions, has acquired Ottawa, Canada-based AFN Insurance Brokerage.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition pairs AFN Insurance Brokerage,...
Mar 6 2019 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired John Sames to its Northeast region leadership team as director of operations and...
Mar 6 2019 // A blockchain-driven risk and capital exchange for the insurance and reinsurance market is set to be launched in Bermuda later this year by ChainThat. The exchange will allow broker, reinsurance and insurance companies...
Mar 6 2019 // Aon Plc said it’s no longer pursuing a combination with rival insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson Plc, a day after confirming that it was considering a tie-up.The company said on Tuesday that it was in the early...
Mar 6 2019 // Irvine, CA, March 6, 2019 – The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers, one of the fastest growing privately held agencies in Los Angeles, is pleased to announce and welcome Paul R. Lopez as Vice President of...
Mar 6 2019 // Breckenridge Insurance Group has appointed David A. Jordan as president and chief executive officer of the wholesale insurance brokerage, programs and financial services company.Jordan succeeds founder and former CEO...
Mar 5 2019 // New York’s insurance regulator issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization’s primary insurance broker, a person familiar with the matter said. It came just days after President Donald Trump’s former...
Mar 5 2019 // Aon Plc is considering a combination with rival insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson Plc, in what could be the industry’s largest ever merger.Aon is in the early stages of exploring an all-share tie-up with...
Mar 5 2019 // Here we go again — another cycle for having marketing representatives, or not.Let’s talk about the way it was and the way it is now. Actually, what was and what is now is basically the same as far as what a...
Mar 4 2019 // Donald W. Morgan, 67, of Bingen, Wash., pleaded guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court to a felony count of first-degree theft involving his former customers’ insurance premiums.He is serving 30 days in the...
Mar 4 2019 // Independent insurance agencies just closed the books on a year in which profitability fell slightly but they continued to grow organically and each major line of business grew, according to the latest survey from Reagan...