All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2019 // Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has appointed Bill Creedon as Construction Industry leader for North America within its Corporate Risk and Broking segment. Creedon, a 30-year insurance and construction risk industry...
Jan 7 2019 // An independent agent in a small rural town insured a farmer whose barn burned down. The agent had failed to schedule the farm structure, so the farm policy did not cover the total loss. The agent routinely placed farm...
Jan 7 2019 // Paramount Exclusive Insurance Services Inc. | Encino, CaliforniaJacob Barzivand started working as an insurance producer right after college at the age of 20. Now, at just 26, he’s built a sizable book of business in...
Jan 7 2019 // 2019 CIWA Industry DaysJan 6-8 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, CACIWAwww.ciwa.net2019 Big ‘I’ Winter MeetingJan 9-12 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the ArchSt. Louis, MOIndependent Insurance Agents &...
Jan 7 2019 // Millennial business owners are more likely to work with insurance agents than those in other generations. What’s more, they’re seeking agent counsel on a variety of financial issues, according to...
Jan 7 2019 // It’s Time to Get Out in Front and Not FightGone are the days of carriers leading the entire purchasing cycle of insurance products and financial services. In an environment of unprecedented change in our industry,...
Jan 7 2019 // A funny thing is happening on the way to the future.As consumers’ and carriers’ behaviors, attitudes and expectations have been changing, independent agents are evolving to better serve both customers and...
Jan 7 2019 // “We give you a login and password, and then every time that you talk to a customer, you can use our platform to sell faster, simpler, quicker,” said CoverWallet CEO Inaki Berenguer, referring to insurance...
Jan 4 2019 // There was a 10.8 percent increase in insurance agent licensure in Arkansas in 2018 over the previous year, as well as an uptick in the licensing of insurance businesses, the state insurance department announced. At the end...
Jan 4 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Southaven, Miss.-based Pointer Insurance Agency, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Pointer Insurance Agency offers a broad range of property/casualty coverages to...
Jan 3 2019 // Dave Evans, a former executive with the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, has joined Work At Home Vintage Experts (WAHVE) as senior vice president of Business Development. WAHVE, formed in 2010,...
Jan 2 2019 // The almost weekly headlines about insurers and venture capitalists investing in insurtechs and tech-savvy insurance startups sometimes blocked the view of what established big technology firms were doing in...
Jan 2 2019 // Last March, a 103-year-old resident of a Sunrise Senior Living facility in Willowbrook, Illinois, went on a field trip to the movies. Ruth Smith, who used a walker, fell down two concrete steps in the theater and died...
Dec 31 2018 // New rules for the Texas surplus lines insurance industry are coming into effect at the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019.According to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX), one of the most pressing changes...
Dec 31 2018 // The most-read stories in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2018 covered agent fraud, a fatal tourist boat sinking in Missouri, court cases and opinions, and even a pair of stolen — and returned — ruby red...
Dec 28 2018 // Ohio Insurance Agents Association has hired Ashley Fitzsimmons as customer experience manager.Growing OIA’s vision to be a “change agent for agent change,” Fitzsimmons has a goal to lead the...
Dec 27 2018 // U.S. airports may be just as vulnerable as London’s Gatwick airport to the kind of illegal drone incursions that shut down the U.K.’s second-busiest hub this week.Counter- drone technology performed so poorly...
Dec 27 2018 // As indicated by a report by Insurance Journal over the holidays, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is limiting the authority of the nation’s flood insurance program to issue new and renewal policies...
Dec 21 2018 // Insurance broker Miller Insurance Services LLP announced that following receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals, it has completed its acquisition of Alston Gayler and Co. (AG).The transaction strengthens...
Dec 20 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed Mark Manzi as national brokerage leader.Manzi, an industry veteran with 30 years of experience placing and negotiating...