All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 9 2017 // Higginbotham has hired insurance brokers John Garcia and Jordan Lewis in its McAllen, Texas, office.Garcia was added as an associate of employee benefits and Lewis as an associate of business insurance. They join the...
Jun 9 2017 // National wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agent Worldwide Facilities has announced that Shavarra Davis will be joining its Atlanta office as a broker specializing in the healthcare industry.Davis brings...
Jun 8 2017 // Sacramento, Calif.-based InterWest Insurance Services, LLC has named Kurt Hoffmann a marketing and promotions agent.Hoffmann’s responsibilities include business development, project management, community engagement...
Jun 8 2017 // Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Ann Arbor, Michigan-based insurance brokerages Armstrong/Robitaille/Riegle Inc. and Ann Arbor Business Advisors LLC. Terms of the transaction were...
Jun 7 2017 // Two Corpus Christi, Texas-based employee benefits providers, Heavin Insurance Agency and Arvak Insurance Group, have merged and joined the insurance broker network, Leavitt Group, to become Heavin, Otto & Leavitt.Will...
Jun 7 2017 // MD Jensvold has hired David Rhodes to manage the brokerage department for the Houston-based managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker.Rhodes joins Jensvold from Zurich Energy & Marine where he was the...
Jun 7 2017 // Dallas-based insurance exchange MarketScout, which provides agents with access to specialty markets, has sold its workers’ compensation managing general agency business to Specialty Program Group.MarketScout said it...
Jun 5 2017 // At least half of the Indianapolis 500 field share more than steely nerves and a love of speed. They have the same agent for insurance, including some policies they’d rather not contemplate.Life insurance. “To a...
Jun 5 2017 // Businesses are buying more cyber insurance and prices for the coverage are stabilizing, according to the latest survey by The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers.According to the survey of about 100 commercial lines...
Jun 5 2017 // Where does the time go? Four months into 2017, here are four industry observations and four action items every insurance agency principal can take before the next four months pass.1. Merger and acquisition activity and...
Jun 5 2017 // The Texas Legislature has passed a bill exempting certain commercial insureds from the requirement that agents make a “diligent effort” to find insurance in the admitted insurance market before taking the risk...
Jun 5 2017 // “I’m being bought out!”“We’re merging with an agency five times our size that will take our revenue to a whole new level!” While expressions of excitement like the ones above might be...
Jun 5 2017 // It seems agencies today have more challenges than ever. Below are three tips to reduce errors and omissions (E&O) exposures.I would love to share with you a story regarding a multinational company that demanded they be...
Jun 5 2017 // The acquisition by AmWINS Group Inc. at the end of last month of Networked Insurance Agents will achieve a number of objectives for both the Charlotte, N.C.-based global distributor of specialty insurance products and...
Jun 2 2017 // Toledo, Ohio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant, has named Jim Stengle as senior vice president, employee benefits business development manager. It is a newly created role within the agency’s Employee Benefits...
Jun 2 2017 // Wanda Becotte will join tKg Wholesale Brokerage as senior underwriter, Small Business Division serving its Southeastern region.Becotte began her insurance career in 2002, working on the retail side for nine years. During...
Jun 1 2017 // An Arkansas man who pretended to be an insurance broker and collected more than $1 million selling fake insurance policies in three states has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, the Arkansas Insurance...
May 31 2017 // The Central Insurance Companies was recently honored with the Best Practices Award of Excellence from the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”). This is the tenth...
May 31 2017 // Austin, Texas-based agency partnership, Combined Agents of America (CAA), has added Nikki Toon as production director. Toon has more than a decade of experience working in the insurance industry from a carrier, agency and...
May 31 2017 // The Greek government wants to persuade shipowners and shipping-insurance companies based in London to move their European Union headquarters to Greece as the U.K. prepares to exit the bloc.“We’re in contact...