All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2017 // Merger & acquisition activity in the insurance distribution space continued at an industrious pace throughout 2016, with 443 closed transactions. This was down from 456 in 2015, but still higher than previous years on...
Feb 6 2017 // Nonprofit organizations come in all shapes and sizes. They are a loyal bunch, often sticking with their valued agents and brokers for years, say two insurance specialists.Sheila Shaw, senior vice president, and Brad...
Feb 6 2017 // Tow truck drivers operate in a dangerous world. Every day they face angry drivers while repossessing vehicles, dangerous driving and road conditions, near misses while operating heavy equipment, and close calls on U.S....
Feb 6 2017 // It is a new era for our country, with President Donald Trump coming into power with the theme to “Make America Great Again.” Perhaps it is also the time to do the same for agency planning. Are there things in...
Feb 3 2017 // Jimcor Agencies, an independent MGA/insurance wholesaler with nine offices on the East Coast, has hired R. James Barber, II, CPCU, ARM, as a brokerage commercial lines underwriter in its New England office, located in...
Feb 2 2017 // The cost of insurance premiums was ranked as the top deciding factor when picking a policy by 61 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to survey data released by London-based RSA Insurance.This...
Feb 1 2017 // The second annual Insurance Careers Month kicks off today, Feb. 1, with organizers hoping to rally young insurance professionals around the world to “share pride in their careers and stimulate interest in the...
Jan 31 2017 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group and Burns & Wilcox Canada announced they have acquired the high-value homeowner’s insurance practice from Quebec-based XN Financial Services Inc. (XN).A managing general agent and...
Jan 31 2017 // President Donald Trump set a daunting goal for government agencies bound by complex procedures, ordering his department heads to kill two regulations for each new one they issue.The two-for-one order is “a big...
Jan 31 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property, casualty brokerage and employee benefits consultant headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., has hired Christopher J. Giuditta as a vice president.Giuditta will...
Jan 31 2017 // International broker and risk management firm Integro Insurance Brokers announced the hiring of industry veterans Simon Abraham and Darren Gregory, who join the firm’s growing Financial Institutions group in the...
Jan 26 2017 // Chicago and Salt Lake City, January 26, 2017- Nothing stands between Rick J. Lindsey, CEO, Chairman and President of Prime Insurance Company, and the great agents and brokers of this country. Starting Monday, February 6,...
Jan 25 2017 // Portland, OR, January 23, 2017 – Consistently top-rated in Amazon reviews and recently featured in leading industry publications including LifeHealthPro and Insurance Forums, the insurance sales training book, “How...
Jan 24 2017 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has taken disciplinary actions including fines totaling more than $77,000, license revocation and other punishments against five Tennessee insurance licensees for...
Jan 23 2017 // Seven in 10 consumers around the world would welcome robo-advisory services — computer-generated advice and services that are independent of a human advisor — for their banking, insurance and retirement...
Jan 23 2017 // It is fair to say 2016 was the year of the catastrophe in the Southeast. Tornadoes, drought, floods, hurricanes and wildfires impacted virtually every state in the region.For the insurance industry, these events made for a...
Jan 23 2017 // 2017 will mark the tipping point in agents’ efforts to adapt to the digital marketplace. Agents are no longer talking about why they should become “digitally- savvy” but how best to do it. Agents are also...
Jan 23 2017 // An insurance agency executive’s control of commercial lines growth is classically limited to encouraging producers to write new accounts. That is good of course, but the organic growth experienced by most independent...
Jan 23 2017 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel has been elected as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).Created in 1871, the NAIC establishes standards and conducts peer reviews for...
Jan 23 2017 // A major online provider of commercial insurance for small businesses in the United States keeps track of its growth milestones with hockey pucks. OK, that might be a bit of a stretch but Chicago-based Insureon definitely...