All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2018 // Bank of America Corp.’s wealth management arm Merrill Lynch is reintroducing brokerage capabilities to its retirement accounts, reversing a policy put in place to comply with Obama-era regulation.In response to...
Sep 4 2018 // Keystone Insurers Group has named Shoreline Insurance of Muskegon and Combined Insurance Agencies of St. Joseph to its growing community of partners in Michigan. Since 1976, Shoreline Insurance has served clients in the...
Sep 4 2018 // The Kansas Insurance Department (KID) has issued an emergency license suspension for a Smith Center, Kansas, insurance agent following an investigation of a complaint from an insurance company.Trisha A. Wiehl’s...
Sep 4 2018 // Specialist corporate insurance broker Verlingue announced it has acquired independent UK broker ICB Group. Financial details of the deal were not released.With the acquisition of Egham, England-based ICB, Verlingue triples...
Sep 4 2018 // London, UK, September 4, 2018—Trireme Insurance Group, the international subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, LLC, is pleased to announce that it has acquired MGB Insurance Brokers Limited (MGB). MGB will operate...
Sep 4 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added attorney Jeremy Glassford to the firm’s Birmingham, Ala.-based National Energy Construction practice as a senior client executive, reporting to EPIC Managing Principal...
Sep 3 2018 // Satellite Agency Network Group Inc. (SAN), a Hampton, N.H.-based alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, has hired Sondra Collins as a commercial lines placement specialist for its AccessPlus...
Sep 3 2018 // As an insurance broker, you may have a special connection to your nonprofit clients. After all, these organizations undertake some of the most noble work in our society, serving those in need or advancing research that...
Sep 3 2018 // I was surprised to learn I was named one of the 50 most influential people in the United States/Western Europe for Insurtech. The fact that I was the only person, I believe, listed who makes their living on their own name...
Sep 3 2018 // Property/casualty insurance experts may not agree on everything but there is a consensus that the most important emerging risk for the industry remains the five-letter word: CYBER. It is not new, of course, but it stays...
Sep 3 2018 // NationsBuilders Insurance Services, Inc. (NBIS), a provider of specialty program insurance to the heavy construction industry, has added Chris Nelson as transportation program manager.Nelson will represent NBIS within the...
Sep 3 2018 // The former owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for insurance fraud.U.S....
Aug 31 2018 // National independent agency alliance SIAA (Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance) has promoted two executives, Steve Tombarelli and Jeff Holmes, and expanded their roles.Tombarelli is now senior vice president, Business...
Aug 29 2018 // Independent agents and brokers are focusing on growing the average size of their commercial lines accounts, according to “Agent Voices 2018,” a report based on a survey conducted earlier this year and...
Aug 29 2018 // THB, the London-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced new leadership and a new multi-sector strategy for THB UK Risk Solutions, its wholesale broking operation which places UK risks on behalf of some...
Aug 28 2018 // Keystone Insurers Group has added Family Insurance Center of Seymour, Wisconsin, and the Walker Agency Inc., with locations in Berlin, Montello and Westfield, Wisconsin, to its growing list of partners in that state.Family...
Aug 27 2018 // Even as they look back on several years of steady growth and success, many owners of independent insurance agencies now find themselves at a crossroad where they are pressed to make critical strategic decisions about the...
Aug 24 2018 // China’s giant Ping An Insurance Group is suing a California-based wholesale brokerage over its use of the name Ping An.The Chinese financial services firm is demanding that Ping An Insurance Center...
Aug 24 2018 // Independent Lloyd’s broker AFL Insurance Brokers Ltd. (AFL) has appointed Chris Gagg as chief financial officer and a member of the AFL board of directors, effective Sept. 1.Most recently group head of Treasury at...
Aug 23 2018 // Beals Insurance Agency LLC has joined the Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA) as a participating member.With offices in Bedford and Londonderry, N.H., Beals Insurance is a full-service independent insurance agency...