All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2018 // Josh Harwood has joined AXA XL’s Broker and Client Management team as client distribution Leader for the US North Central Region.He is based in Chicago and reports to Todd Sutherland, US North Central Regional...
Dec 18 2018 // Worldwide Facilities has named Norman Ives to the management and brokerage team in its NutraRisk division, which specializes in cannabis, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements insurance coverage. Ives, who is based out of...
Dec 17 2018 // Former Texas insurance agent Chia Wang has been indicted for an allegedly defrauding an elderly woman in an insurance scam.Wang is facing up to 99 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine after a grand jury in Marion...
Dec 17 2018 // XL Catlin has added Kimberly Hans to its Broker & Client Management team as Southeast Regional Leader.Hans is based in Atlanta and reports to Robert Peretti, XL Catlin’s Head of Broker & Client Management in...
Dec 17 2018 // The page has finally turned on the tumultuous 2018 hurricane season, but for the agents who live and work in the Florida Panhandle, the story isn’t over – personally or professionally.“We all still feel...
Dec 17 2018 // Reliance Partners, which specializes in commercial insurance, added Brandon Richards as chief sales officer and opened a new office in Austin, Texas.Richards is a veteran insurance professional with more than 17 years in...
Dec 17 2018 // Frenkel & Company – an EPIC Company has hired risk management and insurance professional Michael Power as a principal.Power will be based in Frenkel’s New York, N.Y., office and report to Phil Remig, the...
Dec 17 2018 // While the more than 4,000 employees and leaders of Charlotte, N.C.-based wholesale broker AmWINS are involved in various charitable efforts all year long, this year their efforts to support one nonprofit that targets...
Dec 17 2018 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Financial Group Inc. (AFG) hired Anthony W. Dunn as vice president, overseeing the internal audit function for the company and its subsidiaries.Dunn has 20 years of experience in the...
Dec 17 2018 // With $84 billion in premium volume, Ohio is the 19th largest insurance market in the world and the seventh largest in the United States, the state’s insurance department says in its annual report for 2018.Ohio...
Dec 14 2018 // Safety National proudly supports Variety the Children’s Charity of St. Louis, an organization that has been helping children with physical and developmental disabilities for more than 80 years. In 2018, Safety...
Dec 14 2018 // AnaCap Financial Partners, a private equity firm, has agreed to sell French insurance broker AssurOne Group to Societe Centrale Prevoir SA, an asset management firm based in Paris. AOG specialises in online distribution...
Dec 14 2018 // Insurance agents and brokers who market themselves as experts in cannabis or cyber could wind up regretting that positioning. Because both are relatively new exposures subject to changing regulations and coverages,...
Dec 13 2018 // 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...
Dec 13 2018 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Austin and the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. joined efforts in December to collect food and money for the Capital Area Food Bank located in Austin, Texas. At the IIAA Christmas...
Dec 13 2018 // A Rhode Island insurance agent and agency owner who specializes in providing equine insurance coverage has admitted to operating schemes which defrauded customers, insurance companies and finance companies of approximately...
Dec 13 2018 // Nikki Spicer has joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAO) as the association’s new workers’ compensation program account manager. She will be working alongside Susan Starr and is replacing...
Dec 12 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced it has acquired a 40 percent equity stake in Indonesian insurance broker and risk management services provider PT IBS Insurance Broking Service, as well as 100 percent of reinsurance...
Dec 12 2018 // Florida-based catastrophe reinsurance broker COIN Re has appointed global property reinsurance professional Andy Crichton as executive vice president, effective Dec. 7, 2018.Crichton will be based in London, England, where...
Dec 12 2018 // AXA XL insurance has appointed new Excess & Surplus (E&S) Casualty product leads in the U.S.Ankur Chokshi has been promoted to head of E&S Primary Casualty and Brokerage and Binding Authority while Kimberly...