All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 18 2017 // Overall customer satisfaction with large commercial insurers increased in 2017, driven primarily by insurers’ focus on more tailored and diversified products for their customers. That’s according to the J.D....
Dec 15 2017 // A suburban Detroit insurance agent has been sentenced to at least six years in prison for embezzling more than $800,000 from a dozen elderly clients.Paul Garceau Jr. of Grosse Pointe Park had pleaded guilty to embezzlement...
Dec 13 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Dec 13 2017 // Bretton Woods International (BWI), the specialist insurance broker and managing general agent, has received a license to operate in the UK as an independent broker and, at the same time, is now registered as a...
Dec 11 2017 // This Lowdown provides you with a perspective on the report Insuring Millennials: The Most Underinsured Generation, a report added to the Carrier Management Research & Trends site this week. This report was written for...
Dec 11 2017 // Scott Margraves has been elected to serve as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Houston (IIAH) for a term that expires Aug. 31, 2018.Margraves is a commercial lines producer for TDECU Insurance Agency LLC. He...
Dec 7 2017 // Overall customer satisfaction with large commercial insurers has increased in 2017, driven primarily by insurers’ focus on more tailored and diversified products for their customers. That’s according to the...
Dec 7 2017 // THB, the London-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced the appointment of Declan Durkan as commercial and placement director, THB UK Risk Solutions, the combined fleet and commercial operation of THB...
Dec 6 2017 // Coalition is making its formal debut into the cyber insurance space, but with a twist. The San Francisco-based startup is also a cybersecurity firm.Founded in March 2017, Coalition is co-founded by technology entrepreneurs...
Dec 5 2017 // Western Security Surplus has named Sherif Azer a senior broker in its Los Angeles, Calif. office. Azer’s focus will be commercial lines, property and liability with the placement of excess and surplus brokerage, and...
Dec 4 2017 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing on its acquisition of Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA (WFIS), formerly part of Wells Fargo & Co.This purchase includes the commercial insurance brokerage and consulting,...
Dec 4 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Wayne, Illinois-based Weiss Insurance Agencies Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1905, Weiss Insurance Agencies provides a full range of employee...
Dec 4 2017 // Garrett Sprowls, general counsel and managing broker of Austin-based Professional Lines Underwriting Specialists Inc. (PLUS Inc.), has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. (TSLA).Other newly...
Dec 4 2017 // A California insurtech startup with a new cyber product has launched to offer brokers and their clients what it calls “redesigned insurance, with cyber security expertise at its core.”Mountain View,...
Dec 1 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, the retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting subsidiary of EPIC Holdings, has added insurance brokerage industry veteran Sam Elliott in Austin,...
Dec 1 2017 // Greg Easley has been elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (Indiana Big “I”).Easley currently serves as chairman of Associated Risk Managers International (ARM), and previously has...
Dec 1 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired Eric Hays as regional director of employee benefits.Hays will be based in EPIC’s...
Dec 1 2017 // AFL Insurance Brokers Ltd. announced that re/insurance broker George Stagg has joined the company to lead its technology incubator division as associate director, innovation.Stagg joins from RK Harrison, where he was most...
Dec 1 2017 // The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is targeting opioid abuse in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Kentucky to oversee a region ravaged by overdose deaths.The new Louisville field office will have a special...
Nov 30 2017 // Burns & Wilcox has opened an office in downtown Los Angeles.The office, located at 515 S. Flower St, is the second location in the greater Los Angeles area and seventh major location for Burns & Wilcox in...