All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2018 // Former licensed insurance agent Frederick Donald Rollins, 42, of Moreno Valley, Calif., was sentenced today after pleading guilty to one felony count of grand theft, two counts of securities fraud and an aggravated...
Jan 5 2018 // Arkansas in 2017 had a 4 percent rise in the number of licensed insurance agencies compared with the previous year, the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) reported.In an announcement released by the AID, Arkansas...
Jan 4 2018 // Ohio Insurance Agents Association (OIA) has added Craig Niess as business planning and valuation manager.Growing OIA’s vision to be a “change agent for agent change,” Niess will lead the...
Jan 4 2018 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Seacoast Brokers, LLC, a South Carolina-based personal lines specialty MGA that designs,...
Jan 3 2018 // Twenty or so years ago, a London market marine underwriter declared he was going golfing one afternoon because he had reached his annual capacity level. That was an underwriting model commonly used in the Lloyd’s and...
Jan 3 2018 // There was a 21 percent increase in insurance agent licensure in Arkansas in 2017 compared with the previous year, state insurance regulators announced.According to Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr, the...
Jan 3 2018 // As part of its ongoing restructuring and simplification program, Zurich Insurance announced an agreement to sell its UK student insurer Endsleigh to insurance broker A-Plan Holdings.The financial terms of the deal, which...
Dec 29 2017 // As 2017 wraps up, Insurance Journal is looking back on some of its most popular stories of the year while preparing for what is ahead for the insurance industry in 2018.These are just a few of many topics Insurance Journal...
Dec 29 2017 // A bad broker, classic cars that got destroyed in a fire and insurer rating downgrades were among the most widely read news stories in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2017.One story that generated much interest...
Dec 29 2017 // It wouldn’t feel right to close out the year without looking back at the most popular stories on Insurance Journal during the past 12 months. Here are the national stories that attracted the most readers in 2017,...
Dec 22 2017 // Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR1) into law. It is the biggest tax change in 30 years.Under the legislation, insurers, agencies and other businesses organized as C...
Dec 22 2017 // Integro Insurance Brokers, an international broker and risk management firm, has hired Stephen Feron as a senior vice president in its marine practice.Based in New York, Feron will be responsible for the delivery of...
Dec 21 2017 // The Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA) has announced that Geo M. Stevens Insurance, Voyager Insurance Services LLC and Wieczorek Insurance have joined the NUAA as participating members, effective January 1,...
Dec 21 2017 // Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s past president, Augusto Russell, has been appointed to a General Assembly task force to improve the insurance industry workforce in Connecticut.He was appointed by...
Dec 21 2017 // Independent wholesale insurance broker All Risks Ltd. has added Nancy Batten as energy property broker in its Dallas office.Batten has nearly 30 years of experience in the insurance industry on the wholesaler side. Most...
Dec 20 2017 // New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed Assembly Bill No. 1620 into law yesterday, requiring insurance companies to notify employers in advance of some workers’ compensation insurance premium increases.The law was...
Dec 19 2017 // A South Dakota jury has awarded $1.2 million to a former state law enforcement agent who claimed discrimination and retaliation.The American News reports the jury sided Friday with past Division of Criminal Investigation...
Dec 18 2017 // John Keane, president of The Keane Insurance Group, founded the Keane Charitable Group in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti. Since then, The Keane Group has raised more than $1 million to build an orphanage, a well, a...
Dec 18 2017 // Okerlund, Sorensen & Leavitt Insurance Agency in Richfield, Utah, and Briggs-Yardley Leavitt Insurance Agency in Salina, Utah, have merged operations. The combined agency’s managing principal is Cory Sorensen,...
Dec 18 2017 // Texas has been awarded billions in federal aid to help recover from Hurricane Harvey and the devastating flooding that followed, but it’s unclear how the state is spending its share of the money.State records...