All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2017 // Indian Wells, CA, May 12, 2017- The BIG Independent Group, a leading association of independent agent and brokers, was pleased to bestow its BIGGIE Awards for the 8th year in a row. The 2017 awards, distributed at the...
May 11 2017 // Bunker, a startup digital insurance broker focused on independent contractors and small businesses, has raised $6 million in Series A funding that will help fuel product development and expansion. Hiscox and American...
May 11 2017 // The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG), a national agency based in The Woodlands, Texas, is launching an effort to expand into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.Vic Cordone, a...
May 11 2017 // An ongoing legal battle between two large national insurance brokerage firms over employee poaching is a byproduct of a hazard faced in the financial services industries where relationships and knowledge of business...
May 9 2017 // Wells Fargo & Co. is weighing a sale of its insurance brokerage business, which could fetch about $2 billion, people familiar with the matter said.The San Francisco-based lender has begun reaching out to private equity...
May 9 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (IIABA or the Big “I”) has awarded Charles “Cappy” Stults with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its...
May 8 2017 // Agencies and brokerage firms reported that their organic growth fell to 3.9 percent in the first quarter of 2017, the weakest growth rate since 2011.According to Reagan Consulting’s Organic Growth and Profitability...
May 5 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) honored two agents from South Central states with awards at the annual Big “I” Legislative Conference.Lee Schilling...
May 5 2017 // Aon plc announced it has completed its acquisition of the international health and benefits brokerage portfolio of Mayfair Group, a solutions provider to Indian multinational companies.Terms of the transaction were not...
May 4 2017 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., an East Providence, R.I.-headquartered independent insurance agency and insurance brokerage, has hired Tim Hillberg as a commercial lines sales producer.Hillberg’s...
May 3 2017 // Most standard commercial lines products saw an uptick in premiums at renewal in April, with workers’ compensation being the main exception, according to the IVANS Index.Business owners and commercial property...
May 2 2017 // Amid a second straight year of stagnant auto insurance shopping activity and modest rate increases, auto insurance companies have grown increasingly reliant on great customer service, personalized advice and strong agents...
May 2 2017 // New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced two new proposed regulations to protect New Yorkers and crack down on unscrupulous practices in the title insurance industry.These new protections were drafted following an...
May 1 2017 // AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Networked Insurance Agents, a California-based insurance aggregator specializing in the standard lines insurance segment. Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group is an independent wholesale...
May 1 2017 // An insurance agent pleaded guilty Thursday in a promissory note scam that bilked nearly 80 clients out of $8.2 million.John Hogan, 77, of Swissvale, Penn., entered his pleas to five counts of mail fraud in the scheme run...
May 1 2017 // Deal count for the first quarter of 2017 was down relative to the first quarter of both 2015 and 2016. There were 102 announced transactions in the first quarter of 2017, compared to 124 in the first quarter of 2016 (a...
May 1 2017 // The commercial auto market has a long road ahead to reach profitability after five consecutive years of underwriting losses from 2011-2015. While many insurers upped rates in 2016, the year appears to be coming in with...
May 1 2017 // CoverHound is getting into the rideshare insurance business.The online insurance comparison shopping platform has partnered with several large carriers to offer auto insurance quotes in 24 states for people who drive for...
Apr 28 2017 // A federal jury in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 18 determined that thousands of agents with Madison, Wisconsin-based American Family Mutual Insurance (AmFam) are employees, not independent contractors.According to a news...
Apr 28 2017 // The Meiers Lombardini Lemanski Agency of East Lansing, Michigan, has joined Keystone Insurers Group. The agency becomes Keystone’s seventh partner in the state.The agency, which was established in 1976, is co-owned...