All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Nov 30 2017 // Aon plc has acquired 100 percent interest in Unidelta AG, an insurance broker located in Rapperswil, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Unidelta AG was founded in 2004, and is an independent all-line insurance broker with a strong...
Nov 29 2017 // A Lake Stevens, Wash. man who ran an insurance agency while claiming he was too disabled to work must serve jail time.The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries says 53-year-old James Kooy was sentenced Monday...
Nov 29 2017 // Holborn Corporation (Holborn), a U.S.-based independent reinsurance broker, announced that its board has elected Adam Manus as president and chief brokerage officer, effective immediately.Manus is based in the firm’s...
Nov 29 2017 // Two recent stories in Insurance Journal caught my eye and gave me this topic.Florida Puts Worker’s Comp Carrier Guarantee Insurance In Receivership Florida Keys Insurance Agent Accused of Defrauding Citizens...
Nov 28 2017 // Wells Fargo & Co. announced it is exiting the personal insurance business and will immediately begin winding down its marketing.The company said the exit process should be completed during the first quarter of 2018....
Nov 28 2017 // Startup insurance provider, Berkley One, has launched in Illinois, the first state of a planned national state-by-state rollout.Working with a select group of independent agents, Berkley One offers home, automobile, fine...
Nov 27 2017 // Within a month, we’ll be archiving our 2017 whitepapers and reports, as we seek the most current content available for 2018. For those of you new to Research & Trends, here is a chance to review and easily locate...